2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's 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]

2018 FIVB Men's Challenger Cup
Challenger Cup de Masculino
Portugal 2018
Matosinhos, host city
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
Best scorer Miguel Gutiérrez (67 points)
Best spiker Alexandre Ferreira (58.89 %)
Best blocker Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov (1.14 Avg)
Best server Alexandre Ferreira (0.62 Avg)
Best setter Matias Banda (26.57 Avg)
Best digger Dusan Bonacic (2.00 Avg)
Best receiver Vicente Parraguirre (32.73 %)
Official website

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

Six teams will compete in the tournament.[1]

Means of qualificationDateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host CountryJune 2018 Lausanne1 Portugal
Asian Qualifier18–20 May 2018 Almaty1 Kazakhstan*
South American Qualifier18–20 May 2018 Santiago1 Chile*
North American Qualifier5–9 June 2018 Pinar del Río1 Cuba
Golden European League19 May – 14 June 2018 Karlovy Vary2 Estonia
 Czech Republic
Total6
* 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 Asian and South American qualifiers booked a direct qualification.[6]

Pools composition

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)

Venue

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
Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A
Rank Team Matches Pts Sets Points
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 Report
21 Jun18:00Estonia  3–1  Kazakhstan 25–2219–2525–1925–20 94–86P2 Report
22 Jun21:00Kazakhstan  0–3  Portugal 23–2519–2516–25  58–75P2 Report

Pool B
Rank Team Matches Pts Sets Points
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 Report
21 Jun21:00Czech Republic  3–0  Chile 25–1525–1725–18  75–50P2 Report
22 Jun18:00Chile  1–3  Cuba 36–3822–2531–2919–25 108–117P2 Report

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 Report
23 Jun18:00Portugal  3–0  Cuba 25–2225–2126–24  76–67P2 Report

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. "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. "Portugal join world's elite for 2019 Men's VNL". FIVB. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  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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