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Last season Salzburg were the worst team in the league with a 1-17 record in the regular part, and they lost matches with the average 24 points of difference, even when they would take a set. In the playout they have two wins (Klagenfurt, Weiz) when the opponents secured their stay, and that says enough about their quality. This season the story won't be any different. The team are the same, a mix of casual players and students, and they mostly lost through the pre-season period. They were hosts of the Toros Cup and they were sixth in a competition of eight clubs out of which one were from the Czech second league, one a mediocre Swiss first league, one Austrian second league club, and two first league clubs. Hypo's story is different. They gathered their strongest team in Innsbruck. The Turkish national team player, technician Yenipazar, Masilev with Champions League and Superleague experience are huge new additions for them, and out of important players they basically didn't lose anyone. Today they'll be without opposite Teppan who is with Estonia's national team, but that's not going to be important against Salzburg. They had great results in the pre-season (ZAKSA 2-3, Jastrzebski 2-3, Herrsching 3-2, Effector Kielce 3-1), and without Teppan. The expert, coach Gavan, said he expect the players to be fully involved today, and that they want to open up the championship with a good edition. Their head-to-heads last season remained at 120 (in Salzburg) and 118 points. Salzburg's matches against Posojilnica, Austria's second strongest club, was at 112 (Salzburg, first round) and 126 points, against Waldviertel (third last year) at 120 and 129 (Salzburg), and Hypo crushed those teams (Posojilnice in the finals, Waldviertel in the semi-finals). Hypo also opened the last season by an away match against the stronger Weiz, and the match ended at 126 points. Today it should go under considering the difference in quality.