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. The tournament was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 2019.[1]

2019 FIVB 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 scorer Pavel Kuklinski (71 points)
Best spiker Marlon Yant (59.38 %)
Best blocker Siarhei Busel (0.76 Avg)
Best server Kanstantsin Tsiushkevich (0.88 Avg)
Best setter Gregor Ropret (6.21 Avg)
Best digger Sebastian Castillo (2.17 Avg)
Best receiver Sebastian Castillo (24.39 %)
Official website
challengercup/2019

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.

Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host CountryDecember 2018 Lausanne1 Slovenia
2019 European Golden League25 May – 22 June 2019 Tallinn2 Turkey
 Belarus
North American Qualifier30 May – 1 June 2019 Havana1 Cuba
World Ranking for CAVB12 June 2019 Lausanne1 Egypt
2019 Pan-American Cup for CSV116–21 June 2019 Colima City1 Chile
Total6
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
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
4 Jul20:30Turkey  3–0  Chile 25–1325–2225–22  75–57P2
5 Jul20:40Slovenia  3–1  Turkey 23–2525–1625–1525–17 98–73P2

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
4 Jul17:30Cuba  3–1  Belarus 25–2021–2525–2125–20 96–86P2
5 Jul17:30Egypt  2–3  Cuba 23–2518–2525–2325–227–1598–110P2

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
6 Jul20:45Slovenia  3–1  Belarus 21–2527–2525–2025–18 98–88P2

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

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

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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