2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup

2018 Men's Challenger Cup
Tournament details
Host nation  Portugal
City Matosinhos
Dates 20–24 June
Teams 6
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Champions  Portugal (1st title)
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Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acted as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League.[1][2][3] The tournament was held in Matosinhos, Portugal between 20 and 24 June.[4]

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

Qualification

Six teams will compete in the tournament.[1]

Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host CountryJune 2018Switzerland Lausanne1 Portugal
South American Qualifier[6]18–20 May 2018Chile Santiago1 Chilea
Asian Qualifier[7]18–20 May 2018Kazakhstan Almaty1 Kazakhstana
North American Qualifier[8]5–9 June 2018Cuba Pinar del Río1 Cuba
Golden European League[9]19 May – 14 June 2018Czech Republic Karlovy Vary2 Estonia
 Czech Republic
Total6
Note
^a Originally, the African Volleyball Confederation would have a direct spot in the Challenger Cup, while the representatives from AVC and CSV would play a playoff for a spot. According to the Chilean Volleyball Federation (FEVOCHI), however, FIVB fined the CAVB for not hosting any kind of qualifier event and the winners of the South American and Asian qualifiers (Chile and Kazakhstan) booked a direct qualification.[10]

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of July 2017.[11] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts who ranked 30th.

Pool APool B
 Portugal (Host) Cuba (16)
 Estonia (32) Czech Republic (27)
 Kazakhstan (35) Chile (41)

Venue

Pool standing procedure

  1. Total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Preliminary round

Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Portugal 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 113 1.327
2  Estonia 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 149 161 0.925
3  Kazakhstan 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 144 169 0.852
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun21:00Portugal  3–0  Estonia 25–1925–1625–20  75–55P2
21 Jun18:00Estonia  3–1  Kazakhstan 25–2219–2525–1925–20 94–86P2
22 Jun21:00Kazakhstan  0–3  Portugal 23–2519–2516–25  58–75P2

Pool B

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Czech Republic 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 112 1.339
2  Cuba 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 179 183 0.978
3  Chile 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 158 192 0.823
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun18:00Cuba  0–3  Czech Republic 19–2522–2521–25  62–75P2
21 Jun21:00Czech Republic  3–0  Chile 25–1525–1725–18  75–50P2
22 Jun18:00Chile  1–3  Cuba 36–3822–2531–2919–25 108–117P2

Final round

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

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
23 Jun15:00Czech Republic  3–1  Estonia 29–3127–2525–1825–21 106–95P2
23 Jun18:00Portugal  3–0  Cuba 25–2225–2126–24  76–67P2

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 Jun15:00Estonia  3–0  Cuba 30–2825–2125–16  80–65 

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 Jun18:00Czech Republic  1–3  Portugal 25–1822–2519–2516–25 82–93 

Final standing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "FIVB Executive Committee embraces digital transformation". FIVB. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "FIVB: Nasce la Volleyball Challenger Cup" (in Italian). Volleyball.it. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. ↑ "FIVB Announces Challenger Cup, Will Align With Nations League". Volleyball.it. 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. 1 2 "Portugal join world's elite for 2019 Men's VNL". FIVB. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "SE VIENE EL CLASIFICATORIO SUDAMERICANO MASCULINO AL CHALLENGER CUP EN CHILE" (in Spanish). CSV. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "KAZAKHSTAN, PAKISTAN, CHINESE TAIPEI BATTLE FOR RIGHT TO FIVB CHALLENGER CUP PLAYOFF". AVC. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Cuba wins tournament and qualify to World Final". NORCECA. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Estonia and hosts Czech Republic to contest Golden EuroLeague final". CEV. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "CHILE CLASIFICA DIRECTO A LA CHALLENGER CUP" (in Spanish). Federación de Voleibol de Chile. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of July 2017)". FIVB. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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