French opposite Théo Faure began his professional path as an outside hitter before an injury-driven switch at Toulouse in 2019 redirected his career. The change proved lasting: Faure became French champion with Montpellier, led the Italian SuperLega in regular-season scoring with Cisterna, won Olympic gold with France at Paris 2024 and was named Best Opposite at EuroVolley 2026. He now plays for Itas Trentino in Italy.
Born on October 12, 1999, in Pessac, France, Faure comes from a high-level volleyball family but developed on his own timetable, first entering the sport mainly to play with friends. His rise accelerated after the positional change gave him a more attack-heavy role, and his combination of scoring volume, serving pressure and efficiency has since carried him from the French league into the SuperLega and a larger role with the France men’s national team.
Player Information
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Théo Faure |
| Date of Birth | October 12, 1999 |
| Place of Birth | Pessac, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Position | Opposite |
| Height | 202 cm (6 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) |
| Spike Reach | 340 cm |
| Block Reach | 325 cm |
| Current Club | Itas Trentino |
| Club Number | 11 |
| National Team | France Men’s National Volleyball Team |
| National-Team Number | 21 |
| Senior National Team | Since 2021 |
| Previous Clubs | Spacer’s Toulouse Volley, Montpellier HSC VB, Cisterna Volley |
| @theo_faure_11 |
Faure’s current international and club listings consistently place him at 202 cm. The French federation listed him at 93 kg in its EuroVolley 2021 dossier; published player databases list a 340 cm spike reach and 325 cm block reach. His Instagram handle has also been identified in French coverage of Olympic student-athletes.
Early Life & Volleyball Beginnings
Faure was born into a family with substantial international volleyball experience. His father, Stéphane Faure, represented France extensively, while his mother, Beate Bühler, played internationally for Germany in both indoor and beach volleyball. In a French federation interview, Faure explained that his parents never pushed him toward their sport; he tried tennis, handball, basketball and table tennis before starting volleyball at around ten years old because friends were playing.
That distinction is important to his development. Volleyball was familiar at home, but his route was not simply an inherited professional plan. He began with friends before entering the Toulouse system, where training alongside established professionals made an elite career feel realistic.
Faure originally developed as an outside hitter. The pivotal change came during the 2019–20 season at Spacer’s Toulouse, after an injury to Argentine opposite Federico Pereyra forced the coaching staff to use Faure on the right side. The experiment worked well enough that the temporary solution became permanent. Faure later told CEV that he preferred the offensive impact of the opposite role and the responsibility of receiving important attacking balls.
His first involvement with France’s senior program followed. Faure appeared in the 2021 Volleyball Nations League and was selected for EuroVolley later that year, beginning the international progression that would eventually place him on France’s Paris Olympic roster.
Club Career
Faure’s club career has developed in three clear stages: formation and positional change at Toulouse, domestic titles and European exposure with Montpellier, and a move to Italy that established him among the SuperLega’s highest-volume opposites.
Toulouse: From Outside Hitter to Opposite
Faure was part of Spacer’s Toulouse from 2017 to 2021, initially developing through the club’s training structure before signing his first professional contract in 2019.
The defining event of this period was not a transfer or championship but the move from outside hitter to opposite. Toulouse needed a solution after Pereyra’s injury, and Faure’s performance in the role convinced the club to keep him there.
The switch changed the demands placed on him. Instead of carrying regular serve-reception responsibilities, he became a primary right-side attacker and could use more of his physical profile in high-ball situations. Faure has described liking the greater offensive influence and pressure attached to the position.
By the end of his Toulouse period, he was no longer merely adapting to the role. He had become a young French opposite ready for a club competing for national titles.
Montpellier: French Title and European Development
Montpellier signed Faure in 2021, and his first season ended with the French championship.
The 2021–22 title was Montpellier’s first national championship in 47 years. Faure played an important role during the playoff run, and the following season began with another trophy when Montpellier defeated Chaumont in the French Supercup. CEV later noted that Faure was named match MVP in that Supercup victory.
The 2022–23 campaign also gave him his first sustained exposure to the CEV Champions League. Four matches into Montpellier’s group campaign, Faure had already scored 75 points in 16 sets, an average of 4.69 per set, making him the club’s leading scorer in the competition at that stage. He was simultaneously Montpellier’s leading scorer in the French league with 226 points through 13 matches.
Those numbers were useful preparation for the next move. Faure had demonstrated that he could carry a substantial attacking load in domestic and European competition; in 2023, he left France for the Italian SuperLega.
Cisterna: Becoming a SuperLega Scoring Leader
Cisterna Volley became the club where Faure’s individual scoring profile expanded most dramatically.
His first Italian season, 2023–24, ended with 420 points during the regular season. That total earned him the league’s Andrej Kuznetsov Best Scorer award and made him the first French player to finish a SuperLega season as its leading scorer.
The achievement was not based on a short hot streak. Cisterna relied heavily on Faure throughout the season, and opposition scouting reports repeatedly identified him as the league’s top scorer as the campaign developed. By late February 2024, he had reached 391 points with two regular-season matches still to play.
Faure stayed for a second season and helped Cisterna reach the 2024–25 playoffs. Across his two regular seasons with the club, Trentino later calculated that he scored 790 points in 44 matches, attacking at 49% while also producing 64 blocks and 73 service aces. No SuperLega player accumulated more regular-season points across those two campaigns.
His final match of that playoff run came against the club he would soon join. Faure scored 20 points as Cisterna lost the fourth quarterfinal match to Trentino, ending the series 3–1.
Itas Trentino: Moving From Scoring Leader to Title Contender
On July 2, 2025, Itas Trentino announced Faure on a two-year contract. The reigning Italian champions described power, consistency and completeness as central features of the French opposite’s game and specifically pointed to his two seasons of production at Cisterna. Faure’s move to Trentino placed him with one of Europe’s established Champions League and SuperLega contenders.
His first season in Trento produced several high-level individual performances despite an uneven team campaign. In November 2025, he scored 29 points in a 3–1 victory over reigning European champions Perugia. In February, he delivered 24 points in the Italian Cup semifinal against Piacenza, including 21 attacks at 58% and three aces, sending Trentino into the final.
Trentino lost the Coppa Italia final 3–0 to Verona, with Faure leading his team on 13 points. The league campaign also ended earlier than the defending champions had hoped, and a lower-back problem forced Faure to miss the final stage of Trentino’s fifth-place playoff series.
The club nevertheless retained him for 2026–27. Trentino’s official roster lists Faure and Latvian Renārs-Pauls Jansons as the team’s two opposites, with Faure continuing in number 11.
Club Career Timeline
| Seasons | Team | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2017–2021 | Spacer’s Toulouse Volley | France |
| 2021–2023 | Montpellier HSC VB | France |
| 2023–2025 | Cisterna Volley | Italy |
| 2025–Present | Itas Trentino | Italy |
National Team Career
Faure entered France’s senior program in 2021, when the established national-team core was approaching its first Olympic title. His early role was developmental: he played in the Volleyball Nations League and EuroVolley, learning within a group that already included experienced opposites and many of the players who had won gold in Tokyo.
His route into a central senior role took several seasons rather than arriving immediately.
From International Prospect to VNL Champion
By 2024, Faure had become a serious option behind Jean Patry at opposite.
His 2024 VNL preliminary phase contained several high-scoring performances, including a 29-point match against Brazil in Manila. France eventually reached the Finals in Łódź and defeated Japan 3–1 for the title, with Faure part of the championship roster.
That tournament strengthened his case for Paris 2024.
France selected both Patry and Faure for the Olympic squad, giving the defending champions two physically different options on the right side. Faure was principally the second opposite, but the quarterfinal against Germany showed why roster depth mattered.
Germany won the first two sets and pushed France close to elimination. Faure entered from the bench in the third set and scored 11 points — eight attacks, two blocks and an ace — as France completed a five-set comeback. Volleyball World’s match report specifically highlighted his contribution from the bench. Faure’s 11-point Olympic quarterfinal performance became his most important performance of the tournament.
France then defeated Italy in the semifinal and Poland in the gold-medal match. Faure finished his first Olympics with 15 points overall and an Olympic gold medal.
A Larger Scoring Role After Paris
The seasons after Paris brought a gradual shift in responsibility.
Faure became a major scorer during the 2025 international campaign. His ability to produce high point totals from the opposite position was evident in matches such as France’s VNL victory over Slovenia, when he led the team in scoring.
France’s 2025 World Championship ended earlier than expected, but Faure remained part of the senior roster and continued into the 2026 cycle. A back issue limited him during the 2026 VNL preliminary phase, when he appeared in only a handful of matches and scored 16 points.
By September, he was healthy enough for a much larger role at EuroVolley.
EuroVolley 2026: Best Opposite
EuroVolley 2026 became the clearest evidence yet of Faure’s transition from high-level depth option to major international starter.
Across nine appearances, he scored 136 points: 121 attacks, four blocks and 11 aces. He converted 57% of his attacks, finished sixth among all tournament scorers and was France’s most productive point scorer.
France advanced through the knockout rounds to its first European Championship final since winning the title in 2015. In the gold-medal match against Poland, Faure remained the starting opposite and contributed throughout the four-set defeat. France finished with silver.
Faure’s individual tournament was recognized with the Best Opposite award. The combination of 136 points, 57% attacking and a European silver medal made EuroVolley 2026 the strongest full-tournament performance of his senior national-team career to that point.
Playing Style & Strengths
Faure’s development is unusual because his current game was shaped by a position change rather than by spending his entire youth career as an opposite. That outside-hitter background did not turn him into a regular receiver at senior level, but it contributed to the broader movement and ball-control foundation behind an increasingly specialized scoring role. He has described the offensive responsibility of playing opposite — especially on important balls — as one of the features he enjoys most.
High-volume scoring is the clearest measurable feature of his professional game. His 420 points in the 2023–24 SuperLega regular season made him the league’s Best Scorer, and his two-year Cisterna total reached 790 regular-season points. Those two years also produced 73 aces and 64 blocks, showing that his point production extended beyond right-side attacks.
Efficiency has become increasingly important as his competition level has risen. At EuroVolley 2026, Faure converted 121 of 214 attacks for 57%, while adding 11 aces. That tournament did not simply give him a high volume of swings; he sustained the volume efficiently enough to finish as the competition’s Best Opposite.
He can also change a match without starting it. The Paris 2024 quarterfinal against Germany remains the strongest example: Faure entered with France two sets down and produced 11 points during the comeback. For an opposite operating behind an established starter such as Jean Patry, the ability to enter cold and immediately assume a large attacking role became a specific tactical value.
Major Achievements
Selected National Team Honors
| Year | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CEV European Championship | Silver Medal |
| 2024 | Paris Olympic Games | Gold Medal |
| 2024 | Volleyball Nations League | Gold Medal |
| 2021 | Volleyball Nations League | Bronze Medal |
The Paris gold was Faure’s first Olympic medal, while EuroVolley 2026 marked his first senior European Championship medal and his first major international tournament as France’s leading scorer.
Selected Club Honors
| Season | Competition | Result | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | Italian Cup | Runner-up | Itas Trentino |
| 2022–23 | French Supercup | Winner | Montpellier HSC VB |
| 2021–22 | French Championship | Champion | Montpellier HSC VB |
Montpellier’s 2021–22 championship ended a 47-year wait for the club, while the following Supercup produced individual MVP recognition for Faure.
Selected Individual Awards
| Year / Season | Competition | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CEV European Championship | Best Opposite |
| 2023–24 | Italian SuperLega | Best Scorer |
| 2022 | French Supercup | Match MVP |
His 2023–24 Best Scorer award came after 420 regular-season points for Cisterna. Three seasons later, the EuroVolley Best Opposite award reflected a broader international role, with Faure scoring 136 points at 57% attacking efficiency across the tournament.
Family, Education & Life Away from Volleyball
Faure’s family background links French and German volleyball. His father, Stéphane, was a long-time French international, while his mother, Beate Bühler, represented Germany in indoor and beach volleyball. Faure has said that neither parent pressured him into the sport, and that he only understood the scale of their careers after becoming more immersed in volleyball himself.
That independence also appears in his academic interests. Alongside professional volleyball, Faure pursued engineering studies at INSA Toulouse, specializing in engineering physics. French coverage ahead of Paris 2024 described him as a fourth-year engineering-physics student, continuing a demanding academic path while playing internationally.
Science is more than a formal qualification for him. Faure has spoken about a family interest in physics and the study of phenomena at both extremely large and extremely small scales. That intellectual background sits alongside a career that increasingly requires travel, European club competition and year-round national-team commitments.
His public social account is Instagram @theo_faure_11.
Where Is Théo Faure Playing Now?
As of October 2026, Théo Faure plays for Itas Trentino in the Italian SuperLega. He wears number 11 and is under contract through the 2026–27 season, the second year of the two-season agreement announced when he arrived from Cisterna in July 2025. Trentino’s current roster pairs him at opposite with Renārs-Pauls Jansons.
Faure returned to club training on October 6 after helping France win silver at EuroVolley and receiving the tournament’s Best Opposite award. Trentino described him as arriving after a short post-European-Championship break, with the team preparing for the opening of the 2026–27 SuperLega season.
Internationally, he remains an active member of France’s senior team. His 2026 European Championship was his strongest complete tournament yet in a starting role, giving him substantial momentum entering the new club season.
Recent Performance Snapshot
EuroVolley 2026
| Statistic | Total |
|---|---|
| Appearances | 9 |
| Total Points | 136 |
| Attack Points | 121 |
| Attack Attempts | 214 |
| Attack Success | 57% |
| Block Points | 4 |
| Service Aces | 11 |
| Tournament Result | Silver Medal |
| Individual Award | Best Opposite |
Faure finished as the tournament’s sixth-highest scorer and fourth-ranked attacker by Trentino’s post-tournament statistical summary. These figures apply specifically to EuroVolley 2026 and are not career totals.
Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Théo Faure?
Théo Faure was born on October 12, 1999, in Pessac, France. He is 27 years old as of October 2026.
How tall is Théo Faure?
Faure is listed at 202 cm, approximately 6 ft 8 in, by Volleyball World and current international records.
What position does Théo Faure play?
He plays as an opposite. Faure developed as an outside hitter before moving permanently to opposite at Toulouse during the 2019–20 season.
Which club does Théo Faure play for?
Faure plays for Itas Trentino in Italy’s SuperLega. He joined the club in 2025 and remains on its 2026–27 roster.
Has Théo Faure won an Olympic gold medal?
Yes. Faure won Olympic gold with France at Paris 2024. He scored 15 points during the tournament, including 11 after coming off the bench in the quarterfinal comeback against Germany.
What individual awards has Théo Faure won?
Among his major individual honors, Faure was the Italian SuperLega’s Best Scorer in 2023–24 and the Best Opposite at EuroVolley 2026. He was also named MVP of Montpellier’s 2022 French Supercup victory.
References
- Trentino Volley — Frenchman Théo Faure is the new opposite for Itas Trentino
- Trentino Volley — Itas Trentino 2026–27 roster
- Trentino Volley — EuroVolley 2026 statistics for Théo Faure and Trentino players
- Trentino Volley — Itas Trentino returns to full strength with Faure after EuroVolley 2026
- CEV — The Next Big Thing in Volleyball: Théo Faure
- FFVolley — Théo Faure on his development, family and early France experience
- Volleyball World — Italian SuperLega 2023–24 awardees announced
- Volleyball World — France regain the VNL title ahead of the Paris Olympics
- Volleyball World — Théo Faure Paris 2024 player profile and statistics
- Volleyball World — Comeback Kings France advance to the Paris 2024 semifinals
- L’Étudiant — Student-athletes to follow at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
- Volleybox — Théo Faure player profile
