2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The tournament was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 2019.[1]

2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
Pokal FIVB Odbojka Challenger
Slovenija 2019
Ljubljana, host city
Tournament details
Host nation Slovenia
CityLjubljana
Dates3–7 July
Teams6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Slovenia (1st title)
Runners-up Cuba
Third place Belarus
Fourth place Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance3,480 (348 per match)
Best scorerBelarus Pavel Kuklinski (71 points)
Best spikerCuba Marlon Yant (59.38 %)
Best blockerBelarus Siarhei Busel (0.76 Avg)
Best serverBelarus Kanstantsin Tsiushkevich (0.88 Avg)
Best setterSlovenia Gregor Ropret (6.21 Avg)
Best diggerChile Sebastian Castillo (2.17 Avg)
Best receiverChile Sebastian Castillo (24.39 %)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup

Slovenia won the title, defeating Cuba in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Portugal, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition. Belarus defeated Turkey in the 3rd place match.[2]

On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

Qualification
Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Slovenia CEV Host country December 2018 0 None None
 Cuba NORCECA North American Qualifier winners 1 June 2019 1 2018 2018 4th place (2018)
 Egypt CAVB 1st World ranked team from CAVB 12 June 2019 0 None None
 Chile1 CSV 2019 Pan-American Cup best finishing team from CSV 21 June 2019 1 2018 2018 5th place (2018)
 Belarus CEV 2019 European Golden League runners-up 21 June 2019 0 None None
 Turkey CEV 2019 European Golden League champions 21 June 2019 0 None None
1.^ Originally, the representatives from AVC and CSV would play a playoff for a spot. But, South Korea, chosen by FIVB, refused to represent the AVC. So the AVC–CSV playoff was canceled and the representatives from CSV booked a direct qualification.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018.[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Not more than two teams from the same Continental Confederation can go into a same pool. In case the third team from the same Continental Confederation is placed in the same pool as per the World Ranking, the third team will move to the other pool. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 17th.

Pool A Pool B
 Slovenia (Hosts)  Egypt (13)
 Turkey (33)  Cuba (18)
 Chile (37)  Belarus (48)

Squads
Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup squads

Venue
All matches
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Arena Stožice
Capacity: 12,480

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  Slovenia 2 2 0 6 6 1 6.000 173 122 1.418 Semifinals
2  Turkey 2 1 1 3 4 3 1.333 148 155 0.955
3  Chile 2 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 106 150 0.707
Source:
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul20:40Slovenia 3–0 Chile25–1525–1525–19  75–49P2 Report
4 Jul20:30Turkey 3–0 Chile25–1325–2225–22  75–57P2 Report
5 Jul20:40Slovenia 3–1 Turkey23–2525–1625–1525–17 98–73P2 Report

Pool B
Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Cuba 2 2 0 5 6 3 2.000 206 184 1.120 Semifinals
2  Belarus 2 1 1 2 4 5 0.800 193 195 0.990
3  Egypt 2 0 2 2 4 6 0.667 197 217 0.908
Source:
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul17:30Egypt 2–3 Belarus25–2116–2525–2024–269–1599–107P2 Report
4 Jul17:30Cuba 3–1 Belarus25–2021–2525–2125–20 96–86P2 Report
5 Jul17:30Egypt 2–3 Cuba23–2518–2525–2325–227–1598–110P2 Report

Final round
 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
6 July – Ljubljana
 
 
 Cuba3
 
7 July – Ljubljana
 
 Turkey2
 
 Cuba0
 
6 July – Ljubljana
 
 Slovenia3
 
 Slovenia3
 
 
 Belarus1
 
3rd place match
 
 
7 July – Ljubljana
 
 
 Turkey1
 
 
 Belarus3

Semifinals
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
6 Jul17:30Cuba 3–2 Turkey22–2525–2325–2220–2515–12107–107P2 Report
6 Jul20:45Slovenia 3–1 Belarus21–2527–2525–2025–18 98–88P2 Report

Third place match
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul17:30Turkey 1–3 Belarus20–2525–2016–2520–25 81–95P2 Report

Final
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul20:30Cuba 0–3 Slovenia24–2621–2521–25  66–76P2 Report

Final standing

See also

References
  1. "2019 Volleyball Challenger Cup to pave the way for 2020 VNL". FIVB. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. "Year in Review: Slovenia men, Canada women join VNL elite". FIVB. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Men (as of 1 October 2018)". FIVB. 1 October 2018.
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