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 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. It was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 2019.

2019 FIVB Men's Challenger Cup
Pokal FIVB Odbojka Challenger
Slovenija 2019
Ljubljana, host city
Tournament details
Host nationSlovenia
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
Official website
challengercup.volleyball.world

The winners Slovenia earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Portugal, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition and the title holder.

Qualification
Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification
Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host CountryDecember 2018 Lausanne1 Slovenia
North American Qualifier30 May – 1 June 2019 Havana1 Cuba
World Ranking for Africa12 June 2019 Cairo1 Egypt
Golden European League25 May – 22 June 2019 Tallinn2 Turkey
 Belarus
Asian–South American PlayoffCancela1 Chile
Total6
Note
^a No team from Asian Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.

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

Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018.[1] 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)

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  Slovenia 2 0 6 6 1 6.000 173 122 1.418
2  Turkey 1 1 3 4 3 1.333 148 155 0.955
3  Chile 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 106 150 0.707
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul20:40Slovenia  3–0  Chile 25–1525–1525–19  75–49P2 Report
4 Jul20:30Turkey  3–0  Chile 25–1325–2225–22  75–57P2 Report
5 Jul20:40Slovenia  3–1  Turkey 23–2525–1625–1525–17 98–73P2 Report

Pool B
Rank Team Matches Pts Sets Points
W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Cuba 2 0 5 6 3 2.000 206 184 1.120
2  Belarus 1 1 2 4 5 0.800 193 195 0.990
3  Egypt 0 2 2 4 6 0.667 197 217 0.908
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
3 Jul17:30Egypt  2–3  Belarus 25–2116–2525–2024–269–1599–107P2 Report
4 Jul17:30Cuba  3–1  Belarus 25–2021–2525–2125–20 96–86P2 Report
5 Jul17:30Egypt  2–3  Cuba 23–2518–2525–2325–227–1598–110P2 Report

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

Semifinals
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
6 Jul17:30Cuba  3–2  Turkey 22–2525–2325–2220–2515–12107–107P2 Report
6 Jul20:45Slovenia  3–1  Belarus 21–2527–2525–2025–18 98–88P2 Report

3rd place match
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul17:30Turkey  1–3  Belarus 20–2525–2016–2520–25 81–95P2 Report

Final
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul20:30Cuba  0–3  Slovenia 24–2621–2521–25  66–76P2 Report

Final standing
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See also

References
  1. "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Men (as of 1 October 2018)". FIVB. 1 October 2018.
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