2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup

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2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Challenger Cup de Masculino
Portugal 2018
Tournament details
Host nationPortugal
City Matosinhos
Dates20–24 June
Teams 6  (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s) 1  (in 1 host city)
ChampionsFlag of Portugal.svg  Portugal (1st title)
Runners-upFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Third placeFlag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Fourth placeFlag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance11,952 (1,195 per match)
Best scorer Flag of Cuba.svg Miguel Gutiérrez (67 points)
Best spiker Flag of Portugal.svg Alexandre Ferreira (58.89%)
Best blocker Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov (1.14 Avg)
Best server Flag of Portugal.svg Alexandre Ferreira (0.62 Avg)
Best setter Flag of Chile.svg Matias Banda (26.57 Avg)
Best digger Flag of Chile.svg Dusan Bonacic (2.00 Avg)
Best receiver Flag of Chile.svg Vicente Parraguirre (32.73%)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup
First

The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League. [1] [2] [3] The tournament was held in Matosinhos, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018. [4]

Contents

Portugal won the title, defeating Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing South Korea, the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition. Estonia defeated Cuba in the 3rd place match. [5]

Qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament. [1]

CountryConfederationQualified asQualified onPrevious appearancesPrevious best performance
TotalFirstLast
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1 AVC Asian Qualifier winners 20 May 20180NoneNone
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1 CSV South American Qualifier winners 20 May 20180NoneNone
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal CEV Host country 6 June 20180NoneNone
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba NORCECA North American Qualifier winners 9 June 20180NoneNone
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia CEV 2018 European Golden League champions 13 June 20180NoneNone
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic CEV 2018 European Golden League runners-up 13 June 20180NoneNone
1. ^ Originally, the CAVB would have a direct spot in the Challenger Cup, while the representatives from AVC and CSV would play a playoff for a spot. However, FIVB fined the CAVB for not hosting any kind of qualifier event and the winners of the AVC and CSV qualifier booked a direct qualification. [6]

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017. [7] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 30th.

Pool APool B
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal (Hosts)Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba (16)
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia (32)Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic (27)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan (35)Flag of Chile.svg  Chile (41)

Squads

Venue

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

Pool A

PosTeamPldWLPtsSWSLSRSPWSPLSPRQualification
1Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 220660MAX1501131.327 Semifinals
2Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2113340.7501491610.925
3Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 2020160.1671441690.852
Source: [ citation needed ]
DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
20 Jun21:00 Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg3–0Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 25–1925–1625–20  75–55 P2 Report
21 Jun18:00 Estonia  Flag of Estonia.svg3–1Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 25–2219–2525–1925–20 94–86 P2 Report
22 Jun21:00 Kazakhstan  Flag of Kazakhstan.svg0–3Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 23–2519–2516–25  58–75 P2 Report

Pool B

PosTeamPldWLPtsSWSLSRSPWSPLSPRQualification
1Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 220660MAX1501121.339 Semifinals
2Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 2113340.7501791830.978
3Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 2020160.1671581920.823
Source: [ citation needed ]
DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
20 Jun18:00 Cuba  Flag of Cuba.svg0–3Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 19–2522–2521–25  62–75 P2 Report
21 Jun21:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg3–0Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 25–1525–1725–18  75–50 P2 Report
22 Jun18:00 Chile  Flag of Chile.svg1–3Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 36–3822–2531–2919–25 108–117 P2 Report

Final round

 
Semifinals Final
 
      
 
23 June – Matosinhos
 
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3
 
24 June – Matosinhos
 
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1
 
23 June – Matosinhos
 
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 3
 
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 3
 
 
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 0
 
3rd place match
 
 
24 June – Matosinhos
 
 
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3
 
 
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 0

Semifinals

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
23 Jun15:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg3–1Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 29–3127–2525–1825–21 106–95 P2 Report
23 Jun18:00 Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg3–0Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 25–2225–2126–24  76–67 P2 Report

3rd place match

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
24 Jun15:00 Estonia  Flag of Estonia.svg3–0Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 30–2825–2125–16  80–65 Report

Final

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
24 Jun18:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg1–3Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 25–1822–2519–2516–25 82–93 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "FIVB Executive Committee Embraces Digital Transformation". FIVB. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. "FIVB: Nasce la Volleyball Challenger Cup" (in Italian). Volleyball.it. 9 December 2017. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. "FIVB Announces Challenger Cup, Will Align With Nations League". Volleymob.com. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  4. "Portugal vence grupo C da Golden European League" (in Portuguese). O Jogo. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  5. "Portugal join world's elite for 2019 Men's VNL". FIVB. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  6. "Chile clasifica directo a la Challenger Cup" (in Spanish). FEVOCHI. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  7. "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 7 July 2017)". FIVB. 7 July 2017.