The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the

FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, called the FIVB Volleyball Boys' Youth World Championship between 2007 and 2011, is the world championship of volleyball for male players under the age of 19 organized by ''Fédération Internatio ...

, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 19 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in

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from 18 to 27 August 2017. 20 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament. Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999.

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

won its second title in the competition, defeating

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in the final.

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defeated

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for the bronze medal. Amirhossein Esfandiar from Iran was elected the

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Qualification

The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the

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according to their FIVB U19 World Ranking as of January 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U19 World Ranking. The twelve remaining teams were drawn in next three rows under the condition that there were not too much country in the same confederation were drawn in the same pool. The draw was held in

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on 20 May 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 38th. ;Draw

Squads

Venues

* Isa Sports City Hall C,

– Pool A, B and Final round * Isa Sports City Hall B,

– Pool C, D and Final round

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

Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+03:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+03:00).

17th–20th places

Final sixteen

Round of 16

9th–16th quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

13th–16th semifinals

9th–12th semifinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : Amirhossein Esfandiar *Best Setter :

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*Best Outside Spikers : Amirhossein Esfandiar : Pavel Tetyukhin *Best Middle Blockers : Artem Melnikov : Amir Hossein Toukhteh *Best Opposite Spiker : Im Dong-hyeok *Best Libero : Kenta Ichikawa

References

External links

Official websiteFinal StandingAwardsStatistics
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