The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship will be the 19th staging of the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship organized by the sport's global governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The final tournament will be co-hosted by Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018. For the first time the tournament will be held in two countries. The final six will take place in Turin, Italy. 24 national teams are expected to compete.
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Host selection
On 9 December 2015, FIVB announced that the tournament would be held in Italy and Bulgaria. For the first time the championship will take place in more than one country. The tournament will take place in six Italian cities (Bari, Bologna, Florence, Assago, Rome, and the final Turin) and three Bulgarian cities (Ruse, Varna, and Sofia).
Background
Both Italy and Bulgaria have already played hosts to Men's World Championship. Italy last organised the 2010 Men's World Championship, when Brazil claimed the title their third straight title. Italy also hosted the men's event in 1978 and organised the 2014 Women's World Championship. Bulgaria, on the other hand, hosted both the men's and women's edition in 1970.
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Qualification
The qualification process determined the 24 teams from 130 registered teams that competed in the competition. Italy and Bulgaria are granted automatic qualification for the tournament as the hosts, and the Poland is granted another spot as the reigning champions in their home, Poland.
At first, the 150 FIVB associations registered teams to compete in the qualification process, but the 19 FIVB associations withdrew from the competition after they registered and India were suspended and then expelled from the qualification process, as part of punishment for internal problem in the Volleyball Federation of India.
After Italy, Bulgaria and Polands granted qualification for the tournament, the regional governing bodies were allocated the remaining 21 spots. CAVB (Africa) was granted three, AVC (Asia and Oceania) four, NORCECA (North America) five, CSV (South America) two, and CEV (Europe) seven spots.
Qualified teams
- Notes
Format
- First round
24 teams were drawn in 4 pools of 6 teams. Each pools will compete with round-robin format, and the top 4 teams will advance to second round. The fifth placed teams will rank 17th, and the sixth placed teams will rank 21st.
- Second round
16 teams will compete with 4 pools of 4 teams play in round-robin format. The top team from each pools along with 2 best second ranked teams will advance to next round. The remaining 2nd place teams will rank 7th in this tournament. The 3rd place and 4th place teams will rank 9th and 13th respectively.
- Third round
The six teams in this round will be drawn in 2 pools of 3 teams. Each pools compete with round-robin format. The top 2 teams will play in semifinals, and the 3rd ranked teams will rank 5th
- Final round
The 1st place from pool I will play with the 2nd place from pool J and so on in semifinals. The winners will challenge the World title, and the losers will play for bronze medal.
Pools composition
First round
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool regardless of the World Ranking, Italy in pool A and Bulgaria in pool D. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Florence, Italy on 30 November 2017. Rankings as of 7 July 2017 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Italy and Bulgaria who ranked 4th and 14th respectively.
- Draw
Second round
Third round
Squads
Venues
If co-hosts Italy and Bulgaria qualify for the second round, they will play in Assago and Sofia respectively regardless of whether they finish first, second or third in their first round pools. The host cities will be adjusted accordingly.
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 will be given to the team which won the last 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 and 3 will be 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
First round
- Times of pool A and C are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
- Times of pool B and D are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
- The top four teams in each pool will qualify for the second round.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Second round
- Times of pool E and F are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
- Times of pool G and H are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
- The standings of the four pools will be drawn up taking into account the points scored by each team in the first and second rounds.
- The winners in each pool and the top two of the second ranked teams will qualify for the third round.
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Third round
- All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
- The top two teams in each pool will qualify for the semifinals.
Pool I
Pool J
Final round
- All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Awards
See also
- 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
References
External links
- Official website
- Competition formula
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