The 2023 Men's European Volleyball Championship was the 33rd edition of the Men's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, CEV. For the third time, the championship was held in four countries: Italy, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Israel. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the CEV representatives, except Italy who had already qualified as the defending world champions.
Poland won their second title after defeating hosts Italy 3–0 in the final. Wilfredo León was chosen as the MVP of the tournament.
Host selection In May 2022, three countries — Bulgaria, Italy and North Macedonia — confirmed their co-hosting of the men's EuroVolley 2023 edition. Ukraine was also supposed to be one of the hosts of EuroVolley but because of the ongoing war in the country they lost the right to host the tournament. The only arena that was suitable for the championships was indoor arena Yunist in Zaporizhzhia.
On 5 October 2022, CEV announced that Israel would be the new co-host of the tournament replacing Ukraine. In July 2023, CEV made the unprecedented and controversial move of donating €1,500,000 to ensure the smooth running of the EuroVolley 2023 Group D stages in Israel amid rumours that Israel might withdraw from its hosting duties due to "financial difficulties". This is in contrast to the other host nations who reportedly spent between €600,000 and €2,000,000 for the organization of the championship.
On 9 February 2023, CEV announced that Rome would host the semifinals and medal matches, while Bologna would also host the opening match between Belgium and Italy.
Qualification
Pools composition The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows: The 4 Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. Italy in Pool A, Bulgaria in Pool B, North Macedoniain Pool C and Israel in Pool D. The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools, The organizers could select one team to join their pools, as a result, Switzerland joined Italy in Pool A, Finland joined Bulgaria in Pool B, Montenegro joined North Macedonia in Pool C and Romania joined Israel in Pool D. According to the CEV National Team rankings as of 1 January 2022, the 16 remaining teams are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 Draw The drawing of lots was held on 16 November 2022 in Naples, Italy.
Pool APool BPool CPool D
Squads
Venues Rome (Semifinals and Finals) Varna (Pool B, Round of 16 and Quarterfinals) Skopje (Pool C) Tel Aviv (Pool D) PalaLottomatica Palace of Culture and Sports Boris Trajkovski Sports Center Shlomo Group Arena Capacity: 11,000 Capacity: 5,116 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 3,400 Bologna (Pool A) (only 28 August) Perugia (Pool A) (30 August-1 September) Ancona (Pool A) (3-6 September) Bari (Round of 16 and Quarterfinals) Capacity: 11,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 6,000 Unipol Arena PalaEvangelisti PalaRossini PalaFlorio
Pool standing procedure Number of matches won Match points Sets ratio Points ratio If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority is given to the team which won the match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2, 3 and 4 is made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
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 local. The top four teams in each pool qualify for the final round.
Pool A All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Final round All times are local.
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Rank Team456789101112131415161718192021222324 Qualified for the 2025 World Championship Qualified for the 2025 World Championship as defending champions Qualified for the 2025 World Championship via FIVB World Ranking
14-man rosterBartosz Kurek (c), Jakub Popiwczak, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Karol Kłos, Wilfredo León, Bartosz Bednorz, Aleksander Śliwka, Grzegorz Łomacz, Jakub Kochanowski, Kamil Semeniuk, Paweł Zatorski, Marcin Janusz, Tomasz Fornal, Norbert HuberHead coachNikola Grbić
See also 2023 Women's European Volleyball Championship
References
External links
Official website CEV website