2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup

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2019 FIVB Men's Challenger Cup
Pokal FIVB Odbojka Challenger
Slovenija 2019
View on Ljubljana from Nebotičnik Tower (38458386985).jpg
Ljubljana, host city
Tournament details
Host nation Slovenia
CityLjubljana
Dates3–7 July
Teams6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Slovenia (1st title)
Runners-up Cuba
Third place Belarus
Fourth place Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance3,480 (348 per match)
Best scorerBelarus (71 points)
Best spikerCuba (59.38 %)
Best blockerBelarus Siarhei Busel (0.76 Avg)
Best serverBelarus (0.88 Avg)
Best setterSlovenia Gregor Ropret (6.21 Avg)
Best diggerChile (2.17 Avg)
Best receiverChile (24.39 %)
Official website
challengercup/2019

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The tournament was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 2019.[1]

Slovenia won the title, defeating Cuba in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Portugal, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition. Belarus defeated Turkey in the 3rd place match.[2]

On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

Qualification[]

Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification Date Venue Vacancies Qualified
Host Country December 2018 Switzerland Lausanne 1  Slovenia
2019 European Golden League 25 May – 22 June 2019 Estonia Tallinn 2  Turkey
 Belarus
North American Qualifier 30 May – 1 June 2019 Cuba Havana 1  Cuba
World Ranking for CAVB 12 June 2019 Switzerland Lausanne 1  Egypt
2019 Pan-American Cup for CSV1 16–21 June 2019 Mexico Colima City 1  Chile
Total 6
1.^ Originally, the representatives from AVC and CSV would play a playoff for a spot. But, South Korea, chosen by FIVB, refused to represent the AVC. So the AVC–CSV playoff was canceled and the representatives from CSV booked a direct qualification.

Pools composition[]

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018.[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Not more than two teams from the same Continental Confederation can go into a same pool. In case the third team from the same Continental Confederation is placed in the same pool as per the World Ranking, the third team will move to the other pool. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 17th.

Pool A Pool B
 Slovenia (Hosts)  Egypt (13)
 Turkey (33)  Cuba (18)
 Chile (37)  Belarus (48)

Squads[]

Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup squads

Venue[]

All matches
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Arena Stožice
Capacity: 12,480
Arena Stožice (SLO).jpg

Pool standing procedure[]

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round[]

  • All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A[]

Rank Team Matches Pts Sets Points
W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Slovenia 2 0 6 6 1 6.000 173 122 1.418
2  Turkey 1 1 3 4 3 1.333 148 155 0.955
3  Chile 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 106 150 0.707
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul 20:40 Slovenia  3–0  Chile 25–15 25–15 25–19     75–49 P2
4 Jul 20:30 Turkey  3–0  Chile 25–13 25–22 25–22     75–57 P2
5 Jul 20:40 Slovenia  3–1  Turkey 23–25 25–16 25–15 25–17   98–73 P2

Pool B[]

Rank Team Matches Pts Sets Points
W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Cuba 2 0 5 6 3 2.000 206 184 1.120
2  Belarus 1 1 2 4 5 0.800 193 195 0.990
3  Egypt 0 2 2 4 6 0.667 197 217 0.908
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul 17:30 Egypt  2–3  Belarus 25–21 16–25 25–20 24–26 9–15 99–107 P2
4 Jul 17:30 Cuba  3–1  Belarus 25–20 21–25 25–21 25–20   96–86 P2
5 Jul 17:30 Egypt  2–3  Cuba 23–25 18–25 25–23 25–22 7–15 98–110 P2

Final round[]

  • All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
6 July
 
 
 Cuba3
 
7 July
 
 Turkey2
 
 Cuba0
 
6 July
 
 Slovenia3
 
 Slovenia3
 
 
 Belarus1
 
3rd place match
 
 
7 July
 
 
 Turkey1
 
 
 Belarus3

Semifinals[]

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
6 Jul 17:30 Cuba  3–2  Turkey 22–25 25–23 25–22 20–25 15–12 107–107 P2
6 Jul 20:45 Slovenia  3–1  Belarus 21–25 27–25 25–20 25–18   98–88 P2

3rd place match[]

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul 17:30 Turkey  1–3  Belarus 20–25 25–20 16–25 20–25   81–95 P2

Final[]

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul 20:30 Cuba  0–3  Slovenia 24–26 21–25 21–25     66–76 P2

Final standing[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "2019 Volleyball Challenger Cup to pave the way for 2020 VNL". FIVB. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Year in Review: Slovenia men, Canada women join VNL elite". FIVB. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. ^ "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Men (as of 1 October 2018)". FIVB. 1 October 2018.

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