The 2019 FIVB Men's World Cup was the 14th edition of the event, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held from 1 to 15 October 2019 in Japan. That was the first time since 1989 that FIVB decided not to allocate any spots in the Olympics, due to Japan hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Qualification Twelve teams qualified for the competition by being one of the top two teams of each continental federation based on FIVB World Ranking on 1 January 2019 (except Japan who qualified as hosts, and Poland who qualified as 2018 World Champions).
Qualified to 2019 FIVB World Cup Host and 2018 World Champion
Rank Team WC 2015 OG 2016 WL 2017 WCH 2018 Total Note 1 80 100 45 90 315 CSV first team 2 100 80 40 80 300 NORCECA first team 3 90 90 24 62 266 CEV first team 4 80 50 32 100 262 2018 World champion 5 70 70 38 56 234 CEV second team 6 30 50 42 45 167 NORCECA second team 7 50 50 28 33 161 CSV second team 8 25 50 26 36 137 AVC first team 9 0 30 50 50 130 10 0 2 38 70 110 11 40 2 20 30 92 Host 12 0 1 34 45 80 13 5 30 10 30 75 CAVB first team 14 0 2 30 40 72 15 0 0 18 50 68 16 5 3 19 36 63 AVC second team 17 0 0 22 40 62 18 0 20 0 30 50 19 0 1 13 33 47 20 0 2 17 25 44 21 0 20 6 14 40 22 5 3 5 25 38 CAVB second team
Qualified teams Team Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Total First Last AVC Host country 31 January 2013 13 1965 2015 CEV World Champions 30 September 2018 6 1965 2015 AVC World Ranking for AVC 1 January 2019 3 1991 2015 2 2007 2015 CAVB World Ranking for CAVB 7 1977 2015 8 1969 2015 CEV World Ranking for CEV 7 1981 2015 1 11 1965 2015 CSV World Ranking for CSV 11 1969 2011 6 1985 2015 NORCECA World Ranking for NORCECA 10 1977 2015 5 1977 2015
Notes 1 Competed as Soviet Union; 5th appearance as Russia.
Squads
Venues Site First round Second and Third round A Fukuoka Hiroshima Marine Messe Fukuoka Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center (Green Arena) Capacity: 8,500 Capacity: 7,000 B Nagano Hiroshima White Ring Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center (Sub Arena) Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 1,200
Format Pool A Pool B (Host) (1) (2) (5) (3) (6) (4) (8) (7) (13) (22) (16) The competition system of the 2019 World Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the other 11 teams.
The teams were divided into 2 pools of 6 teams each. In round 1, total 30 matches in 5 days, each teams played against the other teams from the same pool. For rounds 2 and 3, total 36 matches in 6 days, each team played against the teams from another pool. Numbers in brackets denoted the FIVB World Ranking as of 1 January 2019 except the hosts who ranked 11th.
Match points Number of matches won 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
Results
First round
Site A
Site B
Second round
Site A
Site B
Third round
Site A
Site B
Final standing
Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Team roster Bruno Rezende (c), Isac Santos, Maurício Borges Silva, Fernando Kreling, Yoandy Leal, Douglas Souza, Maurício Souza, Lucas Saatkamp, Thales Hoss, Ricardo Lucarelli Souza, Felipe Roque, Alan Souza, Maique Nascimento, Flávio Gualberto Head coach Renan dal Zotto
Awards
Most valuable player Alan Souza Best setter Micah Christenson Best outside spikers Wilfredo León Yūki Ishikawa Best middle blockers Maxwell Holt Lucas Saatkamp Best opposite spiker Yūji Nishida Best libero Thales Hoss
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 .
Best ScorersPlayerSpikesBlocksServesTotal1 Gabriele Nelli 155 13 17 185 2 Hamza Nagga 161 3 11 175 3 Yūji Nishida 139 6 29 174 4 Alan Souza 140 10 15 165 5 Yūki Ishikawa 137 15 9 161
Best Spikers Player Spikes Faults Shots 1 Agustín Loser 123 13 48 184 66.85 2 Wilfredo León 89 15 45 149 59.73 3 Alan Souza 140 30 72 242 57.85 4 Fedor Voronkov 121 32 65 218 55.50 5 Yūji Nishida 139 47 65 251 55.38
Best Blockers Player Faults Rebounds 1 Ivan Iakovlev 39 26 65 130 0.91 2 Aliasghar Mojarad 29 48 66 143 0.66 3 Maxwell Holt 23 28 36 87 0.56 4 Lucas Saatkamp 20 23 52 95 0.53 5 Karol Kłos 20 27 36 83 0.51
Best Servers Player Aces Faults Hits 1 Yūji Nishida 29 36 82 147 0.69 2 Aaron Russell 19 30 104 153 0.46 3 Ivan Iakovlev 19 45 116 180 0.44 4 Ricardo Lucarelli 16 18 101 135 0.42 5 Gabriele Nelli 17 37 91 145 0.41
Best Setters Player Faults 1 Matías Sánchez 478 4 419 901 10.86 2 Riccardo Sbertoli 378 2 495 875 9.22 3 Micah Christenson 300 4 345 649 7.32 4 Bruno Rezende 259 4 381 644 6.82 5 Sergey Grankin 255 3 333 591 5.93
Best Diggers Player Digs Faults Receptions 1 Luke Perry 94 45 37 176 2.47 2 Thales Hoss 86 30 24 140 2.26 3 Fabio Balaso 91 42 35 168 2.22 4 Erik Shoji 82 36 27 145 2.00 5 Saddem Hmissi 72 30 18 120 1.95
Best Receivers Player Excellents Faults 1 Santiago Danani 170 10 57 237 67.51 2 Luke Perry 116 7 40 163 66.87 3 Thales Hoss 124 9 41 174 66.09 4 Erik Shoji 112 10 53 175 58.29 5 Jan Martínez 128 7 79 214 56.54
References
External links Official website