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

2020 Men's European Olympic Qualification Tournament

Tournament details
Host nation	Germany
City	Berlin
Dates	5–10 January
Teams	8  (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1  (in 1 host city)
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Germany
Tournament awards
MVP	Jean Patry
Best Setter	Lukas Kampa
Best OH	Denys Kaliberda Earvin N'Gapeth
Best MB	Viktor Yosifov Nicolas Le Goff
Best OPP	Jean Patry
Best Libero	Jenia Grebennikov
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Official website
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Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The European Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a volleyball tournament for men's national teams held in Berlin, Germany from 5 to 10 January 2020. Eight teams played in the tournament and the winners France qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. ^[1] The 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . ^[2]

Qualification

The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019 ^[3] which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked tenth.

•   Germany (Hosts)
•   Serbia (1)
•   France (3)
•   Belgium (6)
•   Slovenia (7)
•   Bulgaria (8)
•   Netherlands (9)
•   Czech Republic (11)

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019. ^[3] CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking.

Pool A	Pool B
Germany	Serbia
Belgium	France
Slovenia	Bulgaria
Czech Republic	Netherlands

Venue

All matches
Berlin, Germany
Max-Schmeling-Halle
Capacity: 8,500

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 Time (UTC+01:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Slovenia	3	3	0	8	9	3	3.000	294	270	1.089	Semifinals
2	Germany	3	2	1	7	8	3	2.667	263	242	1.087
3	Belgium	3	1	2	2	3	8	0.375	249	267	0.933
4	Czech Republic	3	0	3	1	3	9	0.333	263	290	0.907

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
5 Jan	16:30	Slovenia	3–0	Belgium	25–23	28–26	25–20			78–69	Report
5 Jan	19:30	Czech Republic	0–3	Germany	19–25	22–25	20–25			61–75	Report
6 Jan	20:10	Belgium	0–3	Germany	18–25	23–25	24–26			65–76	Report
7 Jan	17:00	Belgium	3–2	Czech Republic	21–25	28–26	25–20	22–25	19–17	115–113	Report
7 Jan	20:10	Germany	2–3	Slovenia	34–32	20–25	25–19	21–25	12–15	112–116	Report
8 Jan	17:30	Slovenia	3–1	Czech Republic	25–12	28–26	19–25	28–26		100–89	Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	3	3	0	7	9	4	2.250	285	260	1.096	Semifinals
2	France	3	1	2	5	7	6	1.167	281	271	1.037
3	Serbia	3	1	2	4	5	6	0.833	246	237	1.038
4	Netherlands	3	1	2	2	3	8	0.375	209	253	0.826

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
5 Jan	13:30	France	3–0	Serbia	25–21	25–21	25–22			75–64	Report
6 Jan	14:00	Netherlands	0–3	Serbia	18–25	18–25	17–25			53–75	Report
6 Jan	17:00	Bulgaria	3–2	France	25–23	17–25	25–22	19–25	15–8	101–103	Report
7 Jan	14:00	Bulgaria	3–0	Netherlands	25–19	25–16	25–15			75–50	Report
8 Jan	14:30	Serbia	2–3	Bulgaria	21–25	26–24	22–25	25–20	13–15	107–109	Report
8 Jan	20:45	France	2–3	Netherlands	25–21	25–20	22–25	19–25	12–15	103–106	Report

Final round

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

	Semifinals				Final
	9 January
	Slovenia	2
					10 January
	France	3
					France	3
	9 January
					Germany	0
	Bulgaria	1
	Germany	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Jan	17:00	Slovenia	2–3	France	25–13	25–22	14–25	21–25	9–15	94–100	Report
9 Jan	20:10	Bulgaria	1–3	Germany	20–25	23–25	25–20	23–25		91–95	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
10 Jan	20:10	France	3–0	Germany	25–20	25–20	25–23			75–63	Report

Final standing

Rank	Team
1	France
2	Germany
3	Bulgaria
	Slovenia
5	Belgium
	Serbia
7	Czech Republic
	Netherlands

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Qualifying team for Summer Olympics

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics [a]
France	10 January 2020	4 (1988, 1992, 2004, 2016)

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

Awards

• Most valuable player

  Jean Patry

• Best setter

  Lukas Kampa

• Best outside spikers

  Denys Kaliberda

  Earvin N'Gapeth

• Best middle blockers

  Viktor Yosifov

  Nicolas Le Goff

• Best opposite spiker

  Jean Patry

• Best libero

  Jenia Grebennikov

See also

• Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification

References

1. "Germany and Berlin to host men's European Olympic qualifier!". CEV. 29 August 2019.
2. "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". IOC. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
3. "CEV European Ranking List - Men (as per 30.09.2019)". CEV. 30 September 2019. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019.

External links

• Official website – FIVB Archived 2019-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Official website – CEV
• Event website – CEV
• Final Standing
• Most Valuable Player
• Dream Team