2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics

These are the statistics for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, which took place in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018.

Statistics leaders

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 12 September 2018.[1]

Best Scorers

Best scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.

Best Scorers
Player Spikes Blocks Serves Total
1 Bartosz Kurek 113 20 14 147
2 Wallace de Souza 131 6 6 143
3 Ivan Zaytsev 114 12 17 143
4 Douglas Souza 118 10 11 139
5 Aleksandar Atanasijević 123 6 9 138

Best Spikers

Best spikers determined by successful spikes in percentage.

Best Spikers
Player Spikes Faults Shots Total %
1 Matthew Anderson 115 42 47 204 56.37
2 Douglas Souza 118 25 67 210 56.19
3 Taylor Sander 99 33 46 178 55.62
4 Aleksandar Atanasijević 123 42 60 225 54.67
5 Uroš Kovačević 103 30 57 190 54.21

Best Blockers

Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

Best Blockers
Player Blocks Faults Rebounds Total Avg
1 Ilyas Kurkaev 20 19 21 60 0.54
2 Simone Anzani 19 15 51 85 0.51
3 Dmitry Muserskiy 19 21 29 69 0.51
4 Bartosz Kurek 20 16 18 54 0.47
5 Piotr Nowakowski 19 15 40 74 0.44

Best Servers

Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

Best Servers
Player Aces Faults Hits Total Avg
1 Maxim Mikhaylov 19 30 92 141 0.51
2 Ivan Zaytsev 17 31 71 119 0.46
3 Taylor Sander 15 36 82 133 0.37
4 Marko Ivović 14 33 76 123 0.34
5 Bartosz Kurek 14 31 52 97 0.33

Best Setters

Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

Best Setters
Player Running Faults Still Total Avg
1 Micah Christenson 280 5 387 672 6.83
2 Nikola Jovović 230 4 499 733 5.61
3 Sergey Grankin 166 3 139 308 4.49
4 Bruno Mossa Rezende 171 2 394 567 4.17
5 Simone Giannelli 139 4 494 637 3.76

Best Diggers

Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

Best Diggers
Player Digs Faults Receptions Total Avg
1 Aleksey Verbov 66 8 28 102 1.78
2 Paweł Zatorski 65 9 38 112 1.51
3 Erik Shoji 61 3 30 94 1.49
4 Thales Hoss 60 7 26 93 1.46
5 Massimo Colaci 53 15 18 86 1.43

Best Receivers

Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.

Best Receivers
Player Excellents Faults Serve Total %
1 Taylor Sander 71 8 107 186 33.86
2 Paweł Zatorski 73 10 120 203 31.03
3 Egor Kliuka 63 15 105 183 26.23
4 Marko Ivović 68 14 124 206 26.21
5 Douglas Souza 87 18 160 265 26.04

Wins and losses

Squads
Main article: 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads

Coaches
  • Oldest coach: Antonio Giacobbe  Tunisia - 71 years and 212 days in the first game against Brazil.
  • Youngest coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo  Finland - 42 years and 206 days in the first game against Bulgaria.
  • Teams with foreign coaches: 7 teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams (Dominican Republic and Iran) of coaches whose home countries (Venezuela and Montenegro) did not qualify for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.

Players
  • Appearance record: Luciano de Cecco  Argentina, Nathan Roberts, Paul Carroll  Australia, Teodor Salparov  Bulgaria, Ahmed Abdelhay  Egypt and Marko Podraščanin  Serbia participated in the World Championship for the fourth time.
  • Oldest player: At 39 years and 130 days, Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet  Cameroon is the oldest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • Youngest player: Marlon Yang  Cuba is the youngest player at the age of 17 years and 111 days.
  • Tallest player: At 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), Dmitry Muserskiy  Russia is the tallest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • Shortest player: At 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in), Taichiro Koga  Japan is the shortest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • 21 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Japan and Puerto Rico nominated at least one player who is free agent, but only China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Italy, Japan, Puerto Rico and Russia exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league. By contrast, Australia, Canada and Netherlands nominated only players from foreign leagues.
  • The most players (51) are active in clubs based in Italy, the majority of them in the SuperLega. In total 15 of the 24 team squads have players who play in England.
  • From the leagues of countries that did not qualify for the World Cup, the Germany Bundesliga have the strongest representation with 12 players.

Multiple World Championships
Name 2006 2010 2014 / 2018 Total
Luciano de Cecco✔4
Nathan Roberts✔4
Paul Carroll✔4
Teodor Salparov✔4
Ahmed Abdelhay✔4
Marko Podraščanin✔4
Facundo Conte✔3
Pablo Crer✔3
Travis Passier✔3
Bruno Rezende✔3
Lucas Saatkamp✔3
Nikolay Penchev✔3
Svetoslav Gotsev✔3
Viktor Yosifov✔3
Alain Fossi Kamto✔3
Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet✔3
Nathan Wounembaina✔3
Sem Dolegombai✔3
John Gordon Perrin✔3
Earvin N'Gapeth✔3
Kévin Le Roux✔3
Mohammad Mousavi✔3
Saeid Marouf✔3
Ivan Zaytsev✔3
Abdallah Abdalsalam✔✔3
Mohamed Badawy✔3
Rashad Atia✔3
Michał Kubiak✔3
Piotr Nowakowski✔3
Ángel Pérez✔✔3
Aleksey Verbov✔✔3
Dmitry Muserskiy✔✔3
Sergey Grankin✔3
Yury Berezhko✔✔3
Nemanja Petrić✔3
Nikola Rosić✔3
Ahmed Kadhi✔3
Amen Allah Hmissi✔✔3
Anouer Taouerghi✔3
Hamza Nagga✔3
Nabil Miladi✔3
Maxwell Holt✔3
Alexis González✔✔2
José Luis González✔2
Martín Ramos✔2
Sebastián Solé✔2
Harrison Peacock✔2
Luke Perry✔2
Luke Smith✔2
Nehemiah Mote✔2
Bram Van Den Dries✔2
Hendrik Tuerlinckx✔2
Kevin Klinkenberg✔2
Lowie Stuer✔2
Matthias Valkiers✔2
Pieter Coolman✔2
Sam Deroo✔2
Simon Van De Voorde✔2
Éder Carbonera✔2
Luiz Felipe Fonteles✔2
Maurício Souza✔2
Wallace de Souza✔2
Georgi Seganov✔2
Miroslav Gradinarov✔2
Nikolay Nikolov✔✔2
Teodor Todorov✔2
Todor Skrimov✔2
Valentin Bratoev✔✔2
Ahmed Awal Mbutngam✔2
David Feughouo✔✔2
Hervé Kofane Boyomo✔2
Jean Pierre Ndongo✔✔2
Yvan Bitjaa✔2
Graham Vigrass✔2
Nicholas Hoag✔2
Steven Marshall✔2
Tyler Sanders✔2
Chen Longhai✔2
Ji Daoshuai✔2
Zhang Chen✔✔2
Liván Osoria✔2
Abou Abd Elahim✔2
Hossam Abdalla✔2
Mohamed Thakil✔2
Eemi Tervaportti✔2
Lauri Kerminen✔2
Tommi Siirilä✔2
Mikko Esko✔2
Urpo Sivula✔2
Benjamin Toniutti✔2
Jenia Grebennikov✔2
Jonas Aguenier✔2
Kévin Tillie✔2
Nicolas Le Goff✔2
Milad Ebadipour✔2
Amir Ghafour✔2
Farhad Ghaemi✔2
Saman Faezi✔2
Filippo Lanza✔2
Michele Baranowicz✔2
Salvatore Rossini✔2
Simone Anzani✔2
Tatsuya Fukuzawa✔✔2
Dawid Konarski✔2
Fabian Drzyzga✔2
Grzegorz Łomacz✔✔2
Bartosz Kurek✔✔2
Paweł Zatorski✔2
Dennis Del Valle✔2
Edgardo Goás✔2
Ezequiel Cruz✔2
Maurice Torres✔2
Artem Volvich✔2
Maxim Mikhaylov✔✔2
Aleksandar Atanasijević✔2
Marko Ivović✔2
Neven Majstorović✔2
Srećko Lisinac✔2
Uroš Kovačević✔2
Elyes Karamosli✔2
Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi✔2
David Smith✔2
Kawika Shoji✔2
Matt Anderson✔2
Micah Christenson✔2
Taylor Sander✔2

Overall results

By team

References
  1. "Statistics". FIVB.org. 12 September 2018.
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