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Volleyball national side

Italy

National team · Italy

«The Blues»

27 Matches
20 wins
7 losses
70–35 Sets
+35 Difference
2.6 Average per match
Form W 12 Sep · Home Greece · 3:0 W 13 Sep · Home Slovakia · 3:1 W 15 Sep · Home Czech Republic · 3:1 W 17 Sep · Home Slovenia · 3:2 W 20 Sep · Home Denmark · 3:0 L 23 Sep · Home Finland · 2:3

PalaLottomatica in Rome holds around 11,200 for a volleyball night, though the national team has never treated it as a fixed home: matches move between there and halls in Bari, Genoa, Novara and Modena, following wherever the calendar and the crowds make sense.

The federation running the side, FIPAV, was founded in 1946, and the players who wear its colours became known as Gli Azzurri for the sky blue once carried by Italian sides in honour of the House of Savoy. That colour has stayed on the shirt through a run of results few volleyball nations can match.

The record includes five World Championship titles, the most recent won in 2025, and seven European titles. But the number that says most about the team's peak is eight World League wins between 1990 and 2000. What has eluded the team, through three Olympic silvers and three bronzes, is gold; 1996, 2004 and 2016 all ended one match short.

Ferdinando De Giorgi, who took over as head coach in 2021, built the current group around setter Simone Giannelli, the captain, and a core drawn heavily from Itas Trentino, including Alessandro Michieletto and Daniele Lavia on the outside. Beneath the senior side, the pipeline through Club Italia has kept producing winners in its own right, with the under-21 team taking a world title in 2021.

There is no single rival that defines the team the way a derby would; Brazil, Poland, France and Russia have all supplied the sharpest contests over the years. For now the side carries the freshest possible credential into its next assignment, arriving as reigning world champions after the 2025 title.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
23 Sep CEV European Championship Finland H 2:3 L
20 Sep CEV European Championship Denmark H 3:0 W
17 Sep CEV European Championship Slovenia H 3:2 W
15 Sep CEV European Championship Czech Republic H 3:1 W
13 Sep CEV European Championship Slovakia H 3:1 W
12 Sep CEV European Championship Greece H 3:0 W

Standing

CEV European Championship

Group stage · Group A

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Denmark 4 3 1 11:3 10
1 Italy 5 5 0 15:4 14
2 Turkey 4 3 1 9:5 8
2 Slovenia 5 3 2 12:7 10
3 Hungary 4 0 4 0:12 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 27
27 Matches
20 wins
7 losses
70–35 Sets
+35 Difference
2.6 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 27
20wins: 20 · 74% 7losses: 7 · 25%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
12 Sep · Home Greece · 3:0
13 Sep · Home Slovakia · 3:1
15 Sep · Home Czech Republic · 3:1
17 Sep · Home Slovenia · 3:2
20 Sep · Home Denmark · 3:0
23 Sep · Home Finland · 2:3
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 27 14 13
Scored 70 37 33
Conceded 35 16 19
Average per match 2.6 2.6 2.5
Conceded per game 1.3 1.1 1.5
Difference +35 +21 +14

Fixtures of Italy

Honours of Italy

  • FIVB Volleyball Men's World League 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000 8
  • CEV European Championship 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2021 7
  • FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship 1990, 1994, 1998, 2022, 2025 5
  • FIVB Volleyball Men's Grand Champions Cup 1993 1
  • FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup 1995 1
  • Olympic Games 1996, 2004, 2016 3
  • Olympic Games 1984, 2000, 2012 3

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