Siberian city Omsk to host volleyball Final Four

FILE PHOTO: TRENTO, ITALY – MARCH 01: (L – R) Emanuele Birarelli, Raphael Vieira de Olivera and Matteo Burgsthaler of Trentino PlanetWin365 celebrate victory after the CEV Volleyball Champions League play-off match between Trentino PlanetWin365 and Lube Banca Marche Macerata at PalaTrento on March 1, 2012 in Trento, Italy.

Moscow, Dec 14 – The Siberian city of Omsk will host the Final Four of this season’s men’s volleyball Champions League, the European Volleyball Confederation said.

Russia’s Lokomotiv Novosibirsk will be the hosts, while Istanbul’s Galatasaray will hold the women’s Final Four, the CEV said in a website statement Thursday.

Both host teams automatically qualify.

In both the men’s and women’s tournaments, two Russian teams are among the 12 left in the playoffs, excluding Lokomotiv.