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 six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League.[1][2][3] The tournament was held in Matosinhos, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018.[4]

2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
Challenger Cup de Masculino
Portugal 2018
Matosinhos, host city
Tournament details
Host nation Portugal
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

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
Main article: 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's 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

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

Pool A
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:
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun21:00Portugal 3–0 Estonia25–1925–1625–20  75–55P2 Report
21 Jun18:00Estonia 3–1 Kazakhstan25–2219–2525–1925–20 94–86P2 Report
22 Jun21:00Kazakhstan 0–3 Portugal23–2519–2516–25  58–75P2 Report

Pool B
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:
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun18:00Cuba 0–3 Czech Republic19–2522–2521–25  62–75P2 Report
21 Jun21:00Czech Republic 3–0 Chile25–1525–1725–18  75–50P2 Report
22 Jun18:00Chile 1–3 Cuba36–3822–2531–2919–25 108–117P2 Report

Final round
 
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
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
23 Jun15:00Czech Republic 3–1 Estonia29–3127–2525–1825–21 106–95P2 Report
23 Jun18:00Portugal 3–0 Cuba25–2225–2126–24  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 Cuba30–2825–2125–16  80–65Report

Final
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 Jun18:00Czech Republic 1–3 Portugal25–1822–2519–2516–25 82–93Report

Final standing

See also

References
  1. "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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