Head-to-Head
· TRENTINO Itas and BERLIN Recycling Volleys meet for the fifth time in the Champions League, after double encounters in the 2013/14 group stage and the 2020/21 quarter-finals.
· Last season, TRENTINO Itas defeated BERLIN Recycling Volleys 3-1 away and 3-0 at home in the quarter-finals. Nimir Abdel-Aziz scored 40 points in total for TRENTINO Itas in those matches, but has since left the club.
· In the 2013/14 group phase, both teams won their home match: 3-1 in Trento and 3-0 in Berlin.
· TRENTINO Itas have a W6-L2 record against German teams in the Champions League (includes one awarded win), while BERLIN Recycling Volleys have a W3-L10 record against Italian opposition in the competition.
· The winner of this quarter-final tie will play Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in the semi-finals.

TRENTINO Itas
· TRENTINO Itas won the competition three times, in consecutive editions from 2008/09 to 2010/11. The Italians also claimed a top-three finish in 2011/12 (3rd), 2015/16 (2nd) and 2020/21 (2nd).
· Only Zenit KAZAN (6) have won the Champions League more than three times. The Russians (10) are also the only other team to claim as many as six podiums in the competition
· TRENTINO Itas won four of their six group stage matches this season, only losing in their meetings with Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA (0-3 home, 0-3 away).
· Of TRENTINO Itas' last eight defeats in the Champions League, seven came against Italian teams. The exception in this run is a 1-3 defeat in last season's final versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE.
· Daniele Lavia (91) and Alessandro Michieletto (82) finished in the top-five of best scorers in this season's group stage. Only Knack ROESELARE's Mathijs Desmet (97) won more points in the group phase than Lavia (91).
· Lavia won 20 points from stuff blocks in the group stage, second-most of all players after Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's Robertlandy Simon Aties (22).
· Riccardo Sbertoli (64.52%) posted the best setter efficiency in this season's group stage.

BERLIN Recycling Volleys
· BERLIN Recycling Volleys are hoping to reach the Champions League semi-finals for a third time, after 2014/15 and 2016/17. In those seasons they finished respectively third and fourth.
· The only German team to win the Champions League is VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (2006/07).
· BERLIN Recycling Volleys have won all six of their group fixtures this Champions League season, including a 3-0 awarded win versus Sport LISBOA e Benfica. This is their longest winning run in the competition.
· The Germans only recorded more Champions League wins in 2016/17 (7) than in the current campaign (6).
· Benjamin Patch (64) and Timothée Carle (61) have won the most points for the club this Champions League season.
· Carle was ranked among the best spikers in this season's group stage, on a 53.42% efficiency and a killing spike percentage of 65.75%.

1. The match of the 2022 CEV Champions League quarter-finals between Trentino Itas and Berlin Recycling Volleys will be played on Thursday, March 10th at 8:30 pm at the BLM Group Arena. The drawing of lots that took place in Luxembourg on February 18th brought together the two teams that had already fought for the passage to the next round of the same draw in the previous edition. On that occasion, Trentino Itas won both games (3-1 in Berlin on February 25, 3-0 in Trento on March 3, 2021).

2. The first match of the quarter-finals, to be played immediately after the weekend dedicated to the Italian Cup Final Four (which saw Trentino Itas on the second place), will mark the fourth ever appearance of the Berlin Recycling Volleys at the BLM Group Arena in Trento and will confirm the tradition that the Germans have for their play away to Trento in the month of March. In addition to the very recent precedent of last year's edition, the team from the German capital made two other appearances, in 2013, when the facility in Via Fersina was still called "PalaTrento": the first occasion in March (on the 6th) for a pre-Play Off Scudetto friendly (3-1 win for the hosts), the second on October 24th, in the debut match of Pool D of the Champions League (another 3-1 win for the locals).

3. In the Gialloblù roster there are two players who can boast about precedents in the Berlin Recycling Volleys: the libero Julian Zenger, in the team of the capital (with which he won two titles) in the previous two seasons, and the middle blocker Srecko Lisinac, who wore the Berlin jersey in the 2013/14 season (in which he also faced Trentino Volley twice and won the Bundesliga).

4. In the previous ten participations in the Champions League, Trentino Volley always managed to access the final draw of the event, centering the qualification to the quarterfinals in no less than nine cases (until the 2018 edition, the round of 16 was also scheduled). In the 2013 edition, the only precedent in which the club's path stopped in the eight round, when it was eliminated by Dinamo Moscow at the Golden Set. In six cases out of nine, the GialloblĂ¹ team has passed the quarterfinals and reached the semifinals: 2009, 2010, 2011 (all three ended with the final victory of the trophy), 2012 (third place), 2016 (second place) and 2020 (second place).

- For the first time in their club history, the BERLIN Recycling Volleys have qualified for the quarter-finals of the CEV Champions League unbeaten and as group winners. For the German champions, this is a huge success, which they would like to build on with the advantage of playing the second leg in their own arena in this duel with Itas TRENTINO.

- The BR Volleys are coming out of an eleven-day break and were able to prepare thoroughly for the quarter-final against TRENTINO and the play-offs in the German Bundesliga which will start three days later. They won their last match against national rivals VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN 3:1.

- Middle blocker Nehemiah Mote suffered a ligament injury to his right spur joint in that match. However, the Australian international has already resumed training and is back in the squad. Georg Klein, who has been reactivated from volleyball retirement in December, would be his replacement next to the US-American Jeffrey Jendryk while Anton Brehme is still injured.

- The Berliners will meet two familiar faces who can also look forward to a warm welcom in Max-Schmeling-Halle in the return match in a week's time. Julian Zenger (2019 to 2021) and Srecko Lisinac (2013/2014) - both were German champions with the team from the capital.

- To be successful against the Italian top team, the BR Volleys will need their best serve again, as they showed in the 3:2 victories in St. Petersburg (8 and 10 aces). In addition, high hopes rest on Timothée Carle. After Simon Robertlandy, the French national player is the most effective attacker left in the entire competition (65.75 % killing spike) - and that as an outside attacker.