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International volleyball tournament
Volleyball competition held in Portugal
The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup , a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League .[1] [2] [3] The tournament was held in Matosinhos , Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018.[4]
Portugal won the title, defeating Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing South Korea , the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition . Estonia defeated Cuba in the 3rd place match.[5]
Qualification [ edit ]
A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.[1]
1.^ Originally, the CAVB would have a direct spot in the Challenger Cup, while the representatives from AVC and CSV would play a playoff for a spot. However, FIVB fined the CAVB for not hosting any kind of qualifier event and the winners of the AVC and CSV qualifier booked a direct qualification.[6]
Pools composition [ edit ]
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017.[7] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 30th.
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Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Matosinhos , Portugal
Pool standing procedure [ edit ]
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
Preliminary round [ edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
Pts
SW
SL
SR
SPW
SPL
SPR
Qualification
1
Portugal
2
2
0
6
6
0
MAX
150
113
1.327
Semifinals
2
Estonia
2
1
1
3
3
4
0.750
149
161
0.925
3
Kazakhstan
2
0
2
0
1
6
0.167
144
169
0.852
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
Pts
SW
SL
SR
SPW
SPL
SPR
Qualification
1
Czech Republic
2
2
0
6
6
0
MAX
150
112
1.339
Semifinals
2
Cuba
2
1
1
3
3
4
0.750
179
183
0.978
3
Chile
2
0
2
0
1
6
0.167
158
192
0.823
Final round [ edit ]
Semifinals [ edit ]
3rd place match [ edit ]
Date
Time
Score
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
Set 5
Total
Report
24 Jun
15:00
Estonia
3–0
Cuba
30–28
25–21
25–16
80–65
Report
Final standing [ edit ]
Source: VCC 2018 final standing
2018 Men's Challenger Cup champions
Portugal First title
13–man Roster
Caique da Silva , José Belo , Filip Cveticanin , Marco Ferreira , Alexandre Ferreira (c ), Januário Silva , José Monteiro , João Simões , Phelipe Martins , Lourenço Martins , Valdir Sequeira , Miguel Tavares Rodrigues , João Fidalgo
Head coach
Hugo Silva
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup
Men's
Seasons Squads Qualification
Women's
Seasons Squads Qualification