The 2019 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an 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 Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 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.
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
Pools composition Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018. 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 APool B (Hosts) (13) (33) (18) (37) (48)
Squads
Venue All matchesLjubljana, SloveniaArena StožiceCapacity: 12,480
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 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Final round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Semifinals
Third place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam456 Qualified for the 2021 Nations League
14–man RosterTonček Štern, Alen Pajenk, Jan Kozamernik, Alen Šket, Mitja Gasparini, Dejan Vinčić, Sašo Štalekar, Žiga Štern, Jani Kovačič, Urban Toman, Matic Videčnik, Gregor Ropret, Tine Urnaut (c), Klemen ČebuljHead coach Alberto Giuliani
See also 2019 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
References
External links Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website 2019 Challenger Cup – official website