The 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the sixth edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held from 21 May to 30 June 2024, with the final round taking place at the Atlas Arena, Łódź, Poland.
Following the results of the 2023 Nations League and the 2023 Challenger Cup, China were replaced by debutants Turkey in this edition.
France won their second VNL title after a four-set match against Japan in the final. It was Japan's first silver medal in 47 years. Finals host Poland swept Slovenia in the third place match to bag their third bronze medal. Antoine Brizard from France was named the MVP of the tournament.
Teams Qualification Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Ten of them qualified as core teams, which cannot face relegation, with the other six teams selected as the challenger teams that could be relegated from the tournament. Turkey replaced China after winning the 2023 Challenger Cup. In a change of format for the next edition, none of the current teams will be relegated, and from the year 2025 onwards the competition will expand to 18 teams. The two extra spots will be from the team that wins the 2024 Challenger Cup and the best FIVB ranked team who are not in this year event.
CountryConfederationDesignationPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastCSVCore team5201820235th place (2023)CSVCore team520182023Champions (2021)CEVChallenger team52018202311th place (2018)NORCECAChallenger team5201820237th place (2018)NORCECAChallenger team1202313th place (2023)CEVCore team520182023Champions (2022)CEVCore team5201820239th place (2018)AVCCore team5201820235th place (2019)CEVCore team5201820234th place (2022, 2023)AVCCore team520182023Third place (2023)CEVChallenger team3202120238th place (2022)CEVCore team520182023Champions (2023)CEVCore team5201820235th place (2018)CEVChallenger team3202120234th place (2021)CEVChallenger team0NoneDebutNORCECACore team520182023Runners-up (2019, 2022, 2023)
Squads
Format Preliminary round The format of play is generally the same as in the 2022 edition. However, the current format has the 16 men's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. Each team play 12 matches during the pool stage. Eight teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition.
Final round The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase, which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals, and the bronze and gold medal matches.
Final 8 direct elimination formula: The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, and the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team. The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation team do not finish in the top eight in the Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.
Pool composition The overview of pools was released on 8 December 2023.
Week 1Week 2Week 3Pool 1TurkeyPool 2BrazilPool 3JapanPool 4CanadaPool 5SloveniaPool 6Philippines
Venues
Preliminary round Week 1Pool 1Pool 2Antalya, TurkeyRio de Janeiro, BrazilAntalya Sports HallGinásio do MaracanãzinhoCapacity: 10,000Capacity: 11,800Week 2Pool 3Pool 4Fukuoka, JapanOttawa, CanadaWest Japan General Exhibition CenterTD Place ArenaCapacity: 7,900Capacity: 5,500Week 3Pool 5Pool 6Ljubljana, SloveniaManila, PhilippinesArena StožiceSM Mall of Asia ArenaCapacity: 12,480Capacity: 15,000
Final round All matchesŁódź, PolandAtlas ArenaCapacity: 13,805
Competition schedule ●Preliminary round●Final round
Week 121–26 MayWeek 24–9 JunWeek 318–23 JunWeek 427–30 Jun32 matches32 matches32 matches8 matches
Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply, with the teams ranked by the most points 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, the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Sets 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 sets won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets 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 points quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match between the tied teams during the Round Robin Phase. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams will be ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Preliminary round Ranking
Week 1 Pool 1 All times are Turkey Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 2 All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
Week 2 Pool 3 All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Pool 4 All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00).
Week 3 Pool 5 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 6 All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Final round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2:00).
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam45678910111213141516
14–man rosterJenia Grebennikov, Jean Patry, Benjamin Toniutti (c), Kévin Tillie, Earvin N'Gapeth, Antoine Brizard, Nicolas Le Goff, Trévor Clévenot, Yacine Louati, Benjamin Diez, Théo Faure, Timothée Carle, Quentin Jouffroy, Joris SeddikHead coach Andrea Giani
Awards
Most valuable player
Best setter
Best outside spikers
Best middle blocker
Best opposite spiker
Best libero
Fair play team award
Statistics leaders Preliminary round Statistics leaders correct at the end of preliminary round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Tonček Štern265243132022359402843 Stephen Maar19417142254 Klemen Čebulj17921182185 1671514196
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Tonček Štern2656815354.534862 Nimir Abdel-Aziz2358113851.764543 Stephen Maar1945915048.144034 Klemen Čebulj1796314945.783915 167499853.183141674912149.55337
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Nicolas Le Goff3451532.27138 Agustín Loser3459472.621403 Flávio Gualberto3368512.751524 Nicolás Zerba3047522.3112952940552.42124
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits14056943.331902 Tonček Štern31551782.072643 Dražen Luburić2437922.001534 Yuji Nishida1945991.271635 Gregor Ropret18341611.20213 Klemen Čebulj18451431.20206
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Gregor Ropret359983123.9311992310665023.859663 Luke Herr302376823.2310734 Simeon Nikolov276955523.008405 Fernando Kreling267862420.54899
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Santiago Danani1235879.461882 Jani Kovačič11663147.731933 Jenia Grebennikov11465117.601904944756.271465 Thales Hoss923377.08132
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Arman Salehi901616433.332702 Klemen Čebulj842223724.493433 Jani Kovačič782120425.743034 Yacine Louati711320424.652885 Thales Hoss651516126.97241
Final round Statistics leaders correct at the end of final round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Yūki Ishikawa5653642 Tonček Štern5354623 Jean Patry5143584 Klemen Čebulj3552425 Wilfredo León296439333339
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Yūki Ishikawa56193053.331052 Tonček Štern53163153.001003 Jean Patry5193553.68954 Klemen Čebulj35152646.05765 Yuji Nishida3391855.00603342057.8957
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Nicolas Le Goff1322114.33462 Marcin Janusz8552.67183 Tomasz Fornal71372.33274 Wilfredo León6232.001161162.0023
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits143351.3342 Wilfredo León48191.3331 Mateusz Bieniek46361.3346 Tomasz Fornal410321.3346 Tonček Štern48271.3339
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Marcin Janusz67013322.332002 Antoine Brizard65013521.672003 Gregor Ropret57517419.002364 Masahiro Sekita52016817.3322053416434.0099
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1281709.33452 Jenia Grebennikov271929.00483 Jani Kovačič25948.33384 Tatsunori Otsuka181236.00335 Klemen Čebulj16815.3325
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Klemen Čebulj20104128.17712 Jani Kovačič1323426.53493 Yūki Ishikawa1253921.4356 Tomasz Fornal1244719.05635 Kévin Tillie1113622.9248 Trévor Clévenot1125516.1868 Yacine Louati1125416.4267
See also 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup 2024 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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