The 2013

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was the 24th edition of the annual men's international

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tournament, played by 18 countries from 31 May to 21 July 2013. The Final Round was held in Mar del Plata,

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Qualification

*Top 14 teams of the 2012 edition directly qualified. * and qualified through the qualification. * and were invited to participate in Pool C.Egypt and Japan welcomed into World League
/ref> * (dropout from 2012 World League) replaced , who withdrew from the tournament.Portugal replace Egypt in World League
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Format

*It is the first time the World League will feature 18 teams, having had 16 teams from 2001–2003 and 2006–2012. The World League featured eight teams in its inaugural year in 1990, 10 in 1991 and then 12 from 1992–2000 and 2004–05.FIVB World League expands to 18 teams for 2013
/ref> *The top three world ranked teams in each pool will play three matches at home and two away with the bottom three world ranked teams playing twice at home and three times away.

Pools composition

Pools A and B are determined using the Serpentine system based on the

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as of 13 August 2012. Pool C features teams ranked as the next best four in the World Ranking after the 12 teams in Pool A and B plus two additional teams, which were confirmed by the FIVB Executive Committee during its end of year meeting on 15 December 2012. The pools were announced on 1 December 2012.

Squads

Pool standing procedure

# Match points # Number of matches won # 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

Intercontinental round

*All times are local. *The Final Round hosts Argentina, the top two teams from Pool A and B and the winners of Pool C will qualify for the Final Round. If Argentina are one of the top two teams in Pool A, Pool A will send its top three teams.

Pool A

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Pool B

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Pool C

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Final round

*Venue:

Polideportivo Islas Malvinas The Polideportivo Islas Malvinas is an indoor arena located in Mar del Plata, Argentina which was built for the XII Pan American Games in 1995. It is qualified to host such sports as basketball, handball, volleyball and tennis, as well as to acco ...

, Mar del Plata,

*All times are

Argentina Time Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−04:00 or UTC−05:00 time zone; however, it actually uses the UTC−03:00 time zone. Argentina determines whether to observe daylight saving time on a year-by-year basi ...

( UTC−03:00).

Pool play

Pool D

Pool E

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : Nikolay Pavlov *Best Setter : Bruno Rezende *Best Outside Spikers : Ivan Zaytsev :

Ricardo Lucarelli Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza (born 14 February 1992) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. He is a member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team, Brazil national team. The Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men ...

*Best Middle Blockers :

Dmitriy Muserskiy Dmitry Aleksandrovich Muserskiy (russian: Дмитрий Александрович Мусэрский) (born 29 October 1988) is a Russian volleyball player of Ukrainians, Ukrainian descent, member of the Russia men's national volleyball team, R ...

Emanuele Birarelli Emanuele Birarelli (born 8 February 1981) is an Italian volleyball player, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Italian club Sir Safety Perugia, silver medalist of 2016 Summer Olympics, bronze medalist of 2012 Summer Olympics a ...

*Best Opposite Spiker :

Tsvetan Sokolov Tsvetan Sokolov ( bg, Цветан Соколов; born 31 December 1989) is a Bulgarian professional volleyball player, a member of the Bulgarian national team and Russian club Dynamo Moscow, a participant at the Olympic Games London 2012. Sok ...

*Best Libero : Mário Pedreira Biało-czerwoni kibice (9293436666)

References

External links

Official websiteFinal StandingStatistics of the Final RoundStatistics of the Intercontinental Round
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FIVB World League The FIVB Volleyball World League was an annual international men's volleyball competition. Created in 1990, it was the longest and richest of all the international events organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The wom ...

International volleyball competitions hosted by Argentina