Challenger Cup de Masculino Portugal 2018 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host nation | Portugal |
City | Matosinhos |
Dates | 20–24 June |
Teams | 6 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 10 |
Attendance | 11,952 (1,195 per match) |
Best scorer | ![]() |
Best spiker | ![]() |
Best blocker | ![]() |
Best server | ![]() |
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Official website | |
Volleyball Challenger Cup | |
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]
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]
A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament. [1]
Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | Previous best performance | ||
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Total | First | Last | |||||
![]() | AVC | Asian Qualifier winners | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
![]() | CSV | South American Qualifier winners | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
![]() | CEV | Host country | 6 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
![]() | NORCECA | North American Qualifier winners | 9 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
![]() | CEV | 2018 European Golden League champions | 13 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
![]() | CEV | 2018 European Golden League runners-up | 13 June 2018 | 0 | None | None |
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 A | Pool B |
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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
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | MAX | 150 | 113 | 1.327 | Semifinals |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 149 | 161 | 0.925 | |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.167 | 144 | 169 | 0.852 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | MAX | 150 | 112 | 1.339 | Semifinals |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 179 | 183 | 0.978 | |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.167 | 158 | 192 | 0.823 |
Semifinals | Final | |||||
23 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||
24 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
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23 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||
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3rd place match | ||||||
24 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||
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Date | Time | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report | ||
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24 Jun | 18:00 | Czech Republic ![]() | 1–3 | ![]() | 25–18 | 22–25 | 19–25 | 16–25 | 82–93 | Report |
Source: VCC 2018 final standing |
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