Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Intercontinental qualification

2019 Men's Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournament
Tournament details
Host nation	Bulgaria; Netherlands; Italy; Poland; Russia; China
Dates	9–11 August
Teams	24 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Official website
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The Intercontinental Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a volleyball tournament for men's national teams organised by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), held from 9 to 11 August 2019. 24 teams played in the tournament and the winners in each pool qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Qualification[]

Twenty-four teams qualified for the competition as the top twenty-four teams of FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018^[1] (except Japan who qualified as the hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics.).^[2]^[3]

	Qualified for the 2019 Intercontinental Olympic Qualifier
	Already qualified as the hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Seeding	Team	WC 2015	OG 2016	WL 2017	WCH 2018	Total
1	Brazil	80	100	45	90	315
2	United States	100	80	40	80	300
3	Italy	90	90	24	62	266
4	Poland	80	50	32	100	262
5	Russia	70	70	38	56	234
6	Canada	30	50	42	45	167
7	Argentina	50	50	28	33	161
8	Iran	25	50	26	36	137
9	France	0	30	50	50	130
10	Serbia	0	2	38	70	110
–	Japan	40	2	20	30	92
11	Belgium	0	1	34	45	80
12	Egypt	5	30	10	30	75
13	Bulgaria	0	2	30	40	72
14	Netherlands	0	0	18	50	68
15	Australia	5	3	19	36	63
16	Slovenia	0	0	22	40	62
17	Cuba	0	20	0	30	50
18	Finland	0	1	13	33	47
19	China	0	2	17	25	44
20	Mexico	0	20	6	14	40
21	Tunisia	5	3	5	25	38
22	Cameroon	0	2	0	30	32
23	South Korea	0	0	16	12	28
23	Puerto Rico	0	3	0	25	28

Pools composition[]

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018.^[2] Rankings are shown in brackets.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Brazil (1)	United States (2)	Italy (3) (H)	Poland (4) (H)	Russia (5) (H)	Canada (6)
Egypt (13)	Belgium (12)	Serbia (10)	France (9)	Iran (8)	Argentina (7)
Bulgaria (14) (H)	Netherlands (15) (H)	Australia (16)	Slovenia (17)	Cuba (18)	Finland (19)
Puerto Rico (25)	South Korea (24)	Cameroon (23)	Tunisia (22)	Mexico (21)	China (20) (H)

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
(H): Qualification group hosts

Squads[]

Venues[]

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
Varna, Bulgaria	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Bari, Italy
Palace of Culture and Sports	Rotterdam Ahoy
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 15,818	Capacity: 5,080

Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Gdańsk–Sopot, Poland	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Ningbo, China
Ergo Arena	Sibur Arena	Beilun Gymnasium
Capacity: 11,409	Capacity: 7,120	Capacity: 8,000
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Referees[]

Pool A

Celso Ricardo Cabrera
Andrea Puecher
Lucian-Vasile Nastase
Evgeny Makshanov

Pool B

Hernan Gonzalo Casamiquela
Luiz Henrique Coutinho De Oliveira
Andrew Cameron
Alexey Pashkevich

Pool C

Nasr Shaaban
Wojciech Maroszek
Juraj Mokry
Mario Bernaola Sanchez

Pool D

Anderson Caçador
Roy Goren
Ali Fadili
Vladimir Simonovic

Pool E

Marcelo Enzo Pierobon
Sinisa Isajlovic
Ivaylo Ivanov
Pawel Burkiewicz

Pool F

Shin Muranaka
Ibrahim Mohd Ahmed Al Naama
Andrei Zenovich
Khaled Al-Zughaibi

Pool standing procedure[]

Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
- Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
- Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
- Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
- Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
- Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
- If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Results[]

	Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Pool A[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	3	0	8	9	2	4.500	264	213	1.239
2	Bulgaria (H)	2	1	7	8	4	2.000	284	254	1.118
3	Egypt	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	212	240	0.883
4	Puerto Rico	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	178	231	0.771

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	17:00	Brazil	3–0	Puerto Rico	25–23	25–19	25–19			75–61	P2
9 Aug	20:30	Egypt	1–3	Bulgaria	11–25	31–33	25–19	19–25		86–102	P2
10 Aug	17:00	Brazil	3–0	Egypt	25–12	25–19	25–14			75–45	P2
10 Aug	20:30	Puerto Rico	0–3	Bulgaria	20–25	22–25	12–25			54–75	P2
11 Aug	17:00	Egypt	3–0	Puerto Rico	25–17	31–29	25–17			81–63	P2
11 Aug	20:30	Bulgaria	2–3	Brazil	25–23	25–19	30–32	16–25	11–15	107–114	P2

Pool B[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	United States	3	0	9	9	2	4.500	259	223	1.161
2	Netherlands (H)	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	273	263	1.038
3	Belgium	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	223	237	0.941
4	South Korea	0	3	1	2	9	0.222	235	267	0.880

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	16:00	Netherlands	3–2	South Korea	23–25	25–27	26–24	25–20	15–12	114–108	P2
9 Aug	19:36	Belgium	1–3	United States	20–25	19–25	25–17	18–25		82–92	P2
10 Aug	16:00	Belgium	0–3	Netherlands	22–25	21–25	20–25			63–75	P2
10 Aug	19:00	United States	3–0	South Korea	25–20	25–21	25–16			75–57	P2
11 Aug	16:00	Netherlands	1–3	United States	18–25	20–25	25–17	21–25		84–92	P2
11 Aug	19:00	South Korea	0–3	Belgium	25–27	21–25	24–26			70–78	P2

Pool C[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Italy (H)	3	0	8	9	2	4.500	260	206	1.262
2	Serbia	2	1	6	6	4	1.500	237	225	1.053
3	Australia	1	2	4	6	6	1.000	271	269	1.007
4	Cameroon	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	157	225	0.698

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	18:00	Australia	1–3	Serbia	28–26	19–25	19–25	30–32		96–108	P2
9 Aug	21:15	Italy	3–0	Cameroon	25–18	25–18	25–16			75–52	P2
10 Aug	18:00	Serbia	3–0	Cameroon	25–22	25–19	25–13			75–54	P2
10 Aug	21:15	Australia	2–3	Italy	25–21	19–25	26–24	17–25	13–15	100–110	P2
11 Aug	18:00	Cameroon	0–3	Australia	17–25	16–25	18–25			51–75	P2
11 Aug	21:15	Serbia	0–3	Italy	16–25	19–25	19–25			54–75	P2

Pool D[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Poland (H)	3	0	9	9	1	9.000	246	205	1.200
2	France	2	1	6	6	4	1.500	231	229	1.009
3	Slovenia	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	235	235	1.000
4	Tunisia	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	203	246	0.825

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
9 Aug	17:00	Poland	3–0	Tunisia	25–15	25–19	25–19		75–53	P2
9 Aug	20:30	France	3–0	Slovenia	26–24	25–20	25–23		76–67	P2
10 Aug	15:00	Poland	3–0	France	25–21	25–19	25–20		75–60	P2
10 Aug	18:30	Tunisia	0–3	Slovenia	23–25	16–25	24–26		63–76	P2
11 Aug	12:00	France	3–1	Tunisia	25–21	20–25	25–19	25–22	95–87	P2
11 Aug	15:00	Poland	3–1	Slovenia	21–25	25–23	25–23	25–21	96–92	P2

Pool E[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are Moscow Time (UTC+03:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Russia (H)	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	228	175	1.303
2	Iran	2	1	5	6	5	1.200	256	235	1.089
3	Cuba	1	2	4	5	6	0.833	238	255	0.933
4	Mexico	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	170	227	0.749

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	16:00	Iran	3–2	Cuba	23–25	26–28	25–17	25–16	15–10	114–96	P2
9 Aug	19:00	Russia	3–0	Mexico	25–15	25–11	25–17			75–43	P2
10 Aug	16:00	Iran	3–0	Mexico	25–18	25–21	27–25			77–64	P2
10 Aug	19:00	Russia	3–0	Cuba	25–18	26–24	27–25			78–67	P2
11 Aug	16:00	Cuba	3–0	Mexico	25–18	25–23	25–22			75–63	P2
11 Aug	19:00	Russia	3–0	Iran	25–19	25–23	25–23			75–65	P2

Pool F[]

Dates: 9–11 August 2019
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Argentina	3	0	8	9	4	2.250	298	282	1.057
2	Canada	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	286	263	1.087
3	China (H)	1	2	5	7	7	1.000	302	308	0.981
4	Finland	0	3	0	2	9	0.222	236	269	0.877

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	15:00	China	3–1	Finland	25–22	21–25	25–22	25–23		96–92	P2
9 Aug	19:30	Canada	1–3	Argentina	23–25	25–22	25–27	23–25		96–99	P2
10 Aug	15:00	Finland	1–3	Argentina	17–25	18–25	25–21	24–26		84–97	P2
10 Aug	19:30	China	2–3	Canada	26–24	21–25	17–25	25–23	15–17	104–114	P2
11 Aug	15:00	Canada	3–0	Finland	25–16	26–24	25–20			76–60	P2
11 Aug	19:30	China	2–3	Argentina	25–19	22–25	21–25	25–18	9–15	102–102	P2

Qualifying teams for the Summer Olympics[]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics^[a]
Argentina	11 August 2019	7 (1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016)
Poland	11 August 2019	9 (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
United States	11 August 2019	11 (1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Russia	11 August 2019	13 (1964¹, 1968¹, 1972¹, 1976¹, 1980¹, 1988¹, 1992¹, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Brazil	11 August 2019	14 (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Italy	11 August 2019	11 (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)

^ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

¹ The team represented the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1988, and the Unified Team in 1992.

References[]

^ "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 1 October 2018)". FIVB. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020" (PDF). FIVB. 23 September 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^ "Intercontinental Olympic qualification tournament hosts announced". FIVB. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

External links[]

Official website

[4] Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

[1] "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 1 October 2018)". FIVB. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

[distribution_FIVB-2] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020" (PDF). FIVB. 23 September 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

[3] "Intercontinental Olympic qualification tournament hosts announced". FIVB. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

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