2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the third edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held at Jamsil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, between 28 and 31 July 2022.

Four teams made their first appearance in the men's Challenger Cup in this edition: the host South Korea, Australia, Qatar and Tunisia.

Cuba won the title, defeating Turkey in the final, and earned the right to participate in 2023 Nations League replacing Australia, the last placed challenger team after the 2022 edition. South Korea defeated Czech Republic in the 3rd place match.

Qualification

Format The tournament will compete in the knock-out format (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final), with the host country (South Korea) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team among the participating teams. The remaining seven teams are placed from 2nd to 8th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 10 July 2022. Rankings are shown in brackets except the host. MatchTop rankerBottom rankerQuarterfinal 1 (Hosts) (38)Quarterfinal 2 (13) (27)Quarterfinal 3 (15) (24)Quarterfinal 4 (17) (21)

Rule changes Court switch at the end of the sets to be eliminated due to COVID-19 safety guidelines and for a better television broadcasts. Each team is allowed to call only one time-out during each set in the preliminary. The time-out lasts 30 seconds long. Only one technical time-out is made when the leading team reaches 12 points.

Squads

Venue All matchesSeoul, South KoreaJamsil Students' GymnasiumCapacity: 7,500

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

Knockout stage All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam45678 Qualified for the 2023 Nations League

12–man RosterOsniel Melgarejo, Julio Cardenas, Michael Sánchez, Javier Concepción, Yonder García, Miguel Gutiérrez, Lyvan Taboada, Jesús Herrera, Adrián Goide, Roamy Alonso, Miguel Ángel López (c), Marlon YantHead coachNicolas Vives

2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup

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