The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held in Matosinhos, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018.

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.

Qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017. 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 APool B (Hosts) (16) (32) (27) (35) (41)

Squads

Venue Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal

Pool standing procedure Number of matches won Match points Sets ratio Points ratio 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 All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam45 Qualified for the 2019 Nations League

13–man RosterCaique da Silva, José Belo, Filip Cveticanin, Marco Ferreira, Alexandre Ferreira (c), Januário Silva, José Monteiro, João Simões, Phelipe Martins, Lourenço Martins, Valdir Sequeira, Miguel Tavares Rodrigues, João FidalgoHead coachHugo Silva

See also 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

References

External links Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website 2018 Challenger Cup – official website