The 2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was the 20th staging of the FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Poland and Slovenia from 26 August to 11 September 2022. It was originally planned to be held in Russia. However, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine starting on 24 February, Russia was stripped of organization rights.
Italy claimed their fourth title, defeating the reigning world champions Poland in four sets. Brazil won the third place match, defeating Slovenia in four sets. Simone Giannelli from Italy was elected the MVP of the tournament, becoming the first setter to win the award since Vyacheslav Zaytsev in 1982.
Host selection On 15 November 2018, at the FIVB Congress in Cancún, Mexico, FIVB initially announced that the tournament would be held in Russia. The tournament was to take place in ten cities (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, and Krasnoyarsk).
On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency initially handed Russia a four-year ban from all major sporting events, after RUSADA was found non-compliant for handing over manipulating lab data to investigators. The WADA ruling allowed athletes who were not involved in the doping or the coverup to compete, but prohibited the use of the Russian flag and anthem at major international sporting events. However, the Russia national team could still enter qualification, as the ban only applies to the final tournament to decide the world champions. The ruling was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which ruled against RUSADA on 17 December 2020, but reduced the ban from four to two years, expiring on 16 December 2022. The CAS ruling also allowed the name "Russia" to be displayed on uniforms, as well as the display of Russian colors, if the words "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" had equal prominence. As Russia already qualified, its players were unable to use their country's name alone, flag or anthem at the championship, as a result of the two-year ban from world championships in any sport. Russia was scheduled to compete as the Volleyball Federation of Russia (VFR).
Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland, France, Slovenia, as well as the Netherlands threatened to boycott the Championship if Russia were to remain the host. This was confirmed by the Dutch volleyball association on 28 February 2022. Russia was later stripped of its hosting rights on 1 March 2022 due to its invasion.
An accelerated bidding process was opened to determine the new host countries for the tournament. It allowed for the possibility that pool phase could be hosted by two or more countries, up to two hosts in the Round of 16 and quarterfinals, and a single host for the semifinals and final.
On 15 April 2022, FIVB announced that Poland and Slovenia will host the relocated 2022 Men's World Championship.
Qualification
The current world champions Poland automatically qualified for the competition. The top two teams from each of the 2021 Continental Championships secured qualification. The final 12 places were given to top 12 teams as per FIVB World Ranking who have not yet qualified. After Russia was removed from the competition and new hosts Poland and Slovenia had already qualified, Ukraine has been invited in the competition line up as the next highest ranked team in the World Ranking.
Format
Preliminary round In the first round, the 24 teams were spread across six pools of four teams playing in a single round-robin format. The top two teams in each pool and the top four of the third placed teams qualified for the final round. All results of this round combined in a single ranking table to determine a final round pairing and also 17th to 24th rank in final standing.
Final round The qualified teams from preliminary round competed in the knock-out stage.
In round of sixteen, the qualified teams matched-up according to the Berger table based on their ranking in the combined ranking table. However, FIVB reserved the first and second position for the host teams if they qualify. The better ranked host team secured the first position, and the worse ranked host team secured the second position. The winners in this round qualified for quarterfinals. The results of this round have combined to preliminary round's combined ranking to determine 9th to 16th rank in final standing. This procedure also applied in quarterfinals to determine 5th to 8th rank in final standing. In semifinals, the winners advanced to compete for the World Championship title. The losers faced each other in the third place match.
Pools composition The 24 teams were distributed to 6 pools of 4 teams. Teams were seeded in the first position of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 20 September 2021. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. The draw was held at Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace, Moscow, Russia on 30 September 2021. Rankings are shown in brackets except the original hosts who ranked third.
Seeded teamsPot 1Pot 2Pot 3 VFR (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (24) (25)
Draw Pool APool BPool CPool DPool EPool F VFR*
(*) Replaced after the draw.
Squads
Venues Pool A, C and Final roundFinal roundPool B, D, E, F and Final round Katowice, Poland Gliwice, Poland Ljubljana, SloveniaSpodekGliwice ArenaArena StožiceCapacity: 11,036Capacity: 13,752Capacity: 12,480
Pool standing procedure
Ranking of pool. Only valid to determine ranking position to Round of 16. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Preliminary round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The top two teams in each pool and the top four of the third placed teams qualified for the final round.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Combined ranking
Final round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). FIVB reserved the first and second position for the host teams if they qualify for the final round. The better ranked host team secured the first position, and the worse ranked host team secured the second position.
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam4567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15161718192021222324 Qualified for the 2025 World Championship Source: WCH 2022 final standings
2022 World Champions ItalyFourth title
Team roster: Giulio Pinali, Francesco Recine, Alessandro Michieletto, Simone Giannelli, Fabio Balaso, Riccardo Sbertoli, Mattia Bottolo, Gianluca Galassi, Daniele Lavia, Yuri Romanò, Simone Anzani, Roberto Russo, Leonardo Scanferla, Leandro MoscaHead coach: Ferdinando De Giorgi
Awards
Most valuable player
Best setter
Best outside spikers
Best opposite spiker
Best middle blockers
Best libero
Prize money The champion of the tournament was rewarded with US$200,000. The second-place winner received US$125,000 while the third holder received US$75,000. Players selected into Dream Team received US$10,000 each while the MVP was given US$30,000.
Statistics leaders
Statistics leaders correct as of final round.
Best ScorersPlayerSpikesBlocksServesTotal1 Yoandy Leal1078101252 Klemen Čebulj951361143 Daniele Lavia911021034 Bartosz Kurek85781005 Wallace de Souza859397
Best SpikersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Yoandy Leal107247252.612032 Klemen Čebulj95269045.022113 Daniele Lavia91225952.911724 Wallace de Souza85315749.131735 Bartosz Kurek85305450.30169
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Agustín Loser173023.40492 Lucas Saatkamp163042.29503 Flávio Gualberto162842.29484 Mateusz Bieniek1631132.29605 Jan Kozamernik152982.1452
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Oleh Plotnytskyi1816483.60822 Nimir Abdel-Aziz1227353.00743 Mateusz Bieniek1116781.571054 Yoandy Leal1020611.43915 Kamil Semeniuk1022681.43100
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Simone Giannelli139337619.865182 Luciano De Cecco131331426.204483 Antoine Brizard107328621.403964 Marcin Janusz94342813.435255 Lukas Kampa87018721.75274
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Thales Hoss591278.43782 Paweł Zatorski521567.43733 Fabio Balaso4819116.68784 Jani Kovačič391755.57615 Santiago Danani301046.0044
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Santiago Danani39119027.861402 Earvin N'Gapeth3517431.821103 Robbert Andringa3434939.53864 Facundo Conte3438128.811185 Thales Hoss3368726.19126
Broadcasting rights FIVB, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2022 World Championship to the following broadcasters.
The championship was screened through broadcast partnerships covering 90 territories around the world, while Volleyball World TV, Volleyball World's OTT platform, saw over 600,000 unique viewers watch 38.8 million minutes of action during the course of the competition.
Country/region BroadcasterSport KlubGrupo Globo BNT CBC SportsESPNCCTVSport KlubICRTNile Sport, OnTime SportsL'ÉquipeSky SportTVRI SportIslamic Republic of Iran BroadcastingCharltonRAIParaviSaran HoldingESPNSport KlubASBUSport KlubSNRTZiggo SportOman SportPolsat Sport, TVPWAPA-TVSport KlubSport Klub, Pop TV, Kanal AEl Watania 2TRT SporAbu Dhabi Sports, Dubai SportsWorldwideVolleyball World TV
See also
2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship
References
External links
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball Official website Brackets