2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup

2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Challenger Cup de Masculino
Portugal 2018
Tournament details
Host nationPortugal
CityMatosinhos
Dates20–24 June
Teams6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up Czech Republic
Third place Estonia
Fourth place Cuba
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance11,952 (1,195 per match)
Best scorerCuba Miguel Gutiérrez (67 points)
Best spikerPortugal Alexandre Ferreira (58.89%)
Best blockerKazakhstan Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov (1.14 Avg)
Best serverPortugal Alexandre Ferreira (0.62 Avg)
Best setterChile Matias Banda (26.57 Avg)
Best diggerChile Dusan Bonacic (2.00 Avg)
Best receiverChile 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]

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

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Main article: 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup qualification

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

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Kazakhstan1 AVC Asian Qualifier winners 20 May 2018 0 None None
 Chile1 CSV South American Qualifier winners 20 May 2018 0 None None
 Portugal CEV Host country 6 June 2018 0 None None
 Cuba NORCECA North American Qualifier winners 9 June 2018 0 None None
 Estonia CEV 2018 European Golden League champions 13 June 2018 0 None None
 Czech Republic CEV 2018 European Golden League runners-up 13 June 2018 0 None None
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

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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
 Portugal (Hosts)  Cuba (16)
 Estonia (32)  Czech Republic (27)
 Kazakhstan (35)  Chile (41)

Squads

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Venue

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  • Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal

Pool standing procedure

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  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

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Pool A

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Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Portugal 2 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 113 1.327 Semifinals
2  Estonia 2 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 149 161 0.925
3  Kazakhstan 2 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 144 169 0.852
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun 21:00 Portugal  3–0  Estonia 25–19 25–16 25–20     75–55 P2 Report
21 Jun 18:00 Estonia  3–1  Kazakhstan 25–22 19–25 25–19 25–20   94–86 P2 Report
22 Jun 21:00 Kazakhstan  0–3  Portugal 23–25 19–25 16–25     58–75 P2 Report

Pool B

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Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Czech Republic 2 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 112 1.339 Semifinals
2  Cuba 2 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 179 183 0.978
3  Chile 2 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 158 192 0.823
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun 18:00 Cuba  0–3  Czech Republic 19–25 22–25 21–25     62–75 P2 Report
21 Jun 21:00 Czech Republic  3–0  Chile 25–15 25–17 25–18     75–50 P2 Report
22 Jun 18:00 Chile  1–3  Cuba 36–38 22–25 31–29 19–25   108–117 P2 Report

Final round

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SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
23 June – Matosinhos
 
 
 Czech Republic3
 
24 June – Matosinhos
 
 Estonia1
 
 Czech Republic1
 
23 June – Matosinhos
 
 Portugal3
 
 Portugal3
 
 
 Cuba0
 
3rd place match
 
 
24 June – Matosinhos
 
 
 Estonia3
 
 
 Cuba0

Semifinals

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
23 Jun 15:00 Czech Republic  3–1  Estonia 29–31 27–25 25–18 25–21   106–95 P2 Report
23 Jun 18:00 Portugal  3–0  Cuba 25–22 25–21 26–24     76–67 P2 Report

3rd place match

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 Jun 15:00 Estonia  3–0  Cuba 30–28 25–21 25–16     80–65 Report

Final

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 Jun 18:00 Czech Republic  1–3  Portugal 25–18 22–25 19–25 16–25   82–93 Report

Final standing

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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.
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