2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification is a series of tournaments to decide teams which will play in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup. The 2019 Challenger Cup will feature 6 teams. Only one place will be allocated to the hosts. The remaining 5 places will be determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations will compete.

Qualification summary

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	December 2018	Lausanne	1	Slovenia
North American Qualifier	30 May – 1 June 2019	Havana	1	Cuba
World Ranking for Africa	12 June 2019	Cairo	1	Egypt
Golden European League	25 May – 22 June 2019	Tallinn	2	Turkey
Golden European League	25 May – 22 June 2019	Tallinn	2	Belarus
Asian–South American Playoff	Cancel^a		1	Chile
Total			6

Note: ^a No team from Asian Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification

	Qualified for the 2019 Challenger Cup

Confederation qualification

AVC (Asia and Oceania)

FIVB selected South Korea to represent the Asian team for 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup via FIVB World Ranking, because less than four teams participated in the qualification tournament. But South Korea refused to participate.

CAVB (Africa)

FIVB selected Egypt to represent the African team for 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup via FIVB World Ranking.

CEV (Europe)

Final venue: Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia
Dates: 25 May – 22 June 2019
The top two teams qualified for the 2019 Challenger Cup.

Rank	Team
	Turkey
	Belarus
	Netherlands
4	Estonia
5	Latvia
	Spain
	Ukraine
8	Croatia
	Czech Republic
	Slovakia
11	Belgium
11	Finland

CSV (South America)

Teams

Argentina (VNL core team)
Peru (Preliminary round)
Chile (Preliminary round → Final Round)

NORCECA (North America)

Venue: Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva, Havana, Cuba
Dates: 30 May – 1 June 2019

Teams

Cuba (Round Robin)
Dominican Republic (Round Robin)
Mexico (Round Robin)
Puerto Rico (Round Robin)

Round Robin

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Cuba	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	173	139	1.245
2	Puerto Rico	1	1	2	4	5	0.800	186	199	0.935
3	Mexico	0	2	1	2	6	0.333	160	181	0.884

Asian–South American Playoff

Teams

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
World Ranking for Asia	TBD	TBD	1	TBD
Pan-American Cup (for CSV eligible teams)	21 June 2019	Colima City	1	Chile
Total			2

References

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