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
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the
FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
The FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League is an annual international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place between ...
.
The tournament was held in
Matosinhos
Matosinhos () is a City#Portugal, city and a Concelho, municipality in the district of Porto District, Porto in Portugal. The municipality covers an area of approximately and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021. It is bordered by the municipalities o ...
, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018.
Portugal
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won the title, defeating
Czech Republic
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in the final, and earned the right to participate in the
2019 Nations League replacing
South Korea
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, the last placed challenger team after the
2018 edition.
Estonia
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defeated
Cuba
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in the 3rd place match.
Qualification
A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the
serpentine system
The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...
according to their
FIVB World Ranking
The FIVB Senior World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their ...
as of 7 July 2017.
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.
Squads
Venue
* Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos,
Matosinhos
Matosinhos () is a City#Portugal, city and a Concelho, municipality in the district of Porto District, Porto in Portugal. The municipality covers an area of approximately and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021. It is bordered by the municipalities o ...
, Portugal
Pool standing procedure
# Number of matches won
# Match points
# Sets ratio
# Points ratio
# 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
Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in:
* the Canary Islands
* Portugal (including Madeira but not the Azores)
* th ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
*All times are
Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in:
* the Canary Islands
* Portugal (including Madeira but not the Azores)
* th ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
See also
*
2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international men's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World League in th ...
*
2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIV ...
References
External links
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball– official website
2018 Challenger Cup– official website
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FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
FIVB
2018 in Portuguese sport
International volleyball competitions hosted by Portugal
FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
The FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The Challenger Cup served as a qualifying tournam ...
Sport in Matosinhos