2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
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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]
| Challenger Cup de Masculino Portugal 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host nation | Portugal |
| City | Matosinhos |
| Dates | 20–24 June |
| Teams | 6 (from 4 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Champions |  Portugal (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Czech Republic |
| Third place |  Estonia |
| Fourth place |  Cuba |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 10 |
| Attendance | 11,952 (1,195 per match) |
| Best scorer | Miguel Gutiérrez (67 points) |
| Best spiker | Alexandre Ferreira (58.89) |
| Best blocker |  Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov (1.14 ) |
| Best server | Alexandre Ferreira (0.62 ) |
| Best setter |  Matias Banda (26.57 ) |
| Best digger | Dusan Bonacic (2.00 ) |
| Best receiver | Vicente Parraguirre (32.73) |
| Official website | |
| Volleyball Challenger Cup | |
First | |
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]
A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.[1]
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | First | Last | |||||
| Kazakhstan1 | AVC | Asian Qualifier winners | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Chile1 | CSV | South American Qualifier winners | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Portugal | CEV | Host country | 6 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Cuba | NORCECA | North American Qualifier winners | 9 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Estonia | CEV | 2018 European Golden League champions | 13 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Czech Republic | CEV | 2018 European Golden League runners-up | 13 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
- 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]
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.
| Pool A | Pool B |
|---|---|
| Portugal (Hosts) | Cuba (16) |
| Estonia (32) | Czech Republic (27) |
| Kazakhstan (35) | Chile (41) |
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- Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal
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
- All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).
| 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 |
- All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).
| Semifinals | Final | |||||
| 23 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
| Czech Republic | 3 | |||||
| 24 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
| Estonia | 1 | |||||
| Czech Republic | 1 | |||||
| 23 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
| Portugal | 3 | |||||
| Portugal | 3 | |||||
| Cuba | 0 | |||||
| 3rd place match | ||||||
| 24 June – Matosinhos | ||||||
| Estonia | 3 | |||||
| Cuba | 0 | |||||
| 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 |
| Date | Time | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun | 18:00 | Czech Republic | 1–3 | Portugal | 25–18 | 22–25 | 19–25 | 16–25 | 82–93 | Report |
Source: VCC 2018 final standing |
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- ^ a b "FIVB Executive Committee Embraces Digital Transformation". FIVB. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "FIVB: Nasce la Volleyball Challenger Cup" (in Italian). Volleyball.it. 9 December 2017. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "FIVB Announces Challenger Cup, Will Align With Nations League". Volleymob.com. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Portugal vence grupo C da Golden European League" (in Portuguese). O Jogo. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ "Portugal join world's elite for 2019 Men's VNL". FIVB. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Chile clasifica directo a la Challenger Cup" (in Spanish). FEVOCHI. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 7 July 2017)". FIVB. 7 July 2017.
- Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website
- 2018 Challenger Cup – official website