The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the

FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup The FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament was played between 20 and 24 ...

, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The tournament was held in

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, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018. 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.

Qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the

serpentine system The serpentine system (also called snake seeding) is a method employed in the organization of a competition to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m ...

according to their

FIVB World Ranking The FIVB Senior World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on thei ...

as of 7 July 2017. 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.

Squads

Venue

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, 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

Preliminary round

*All times are Western European Summer Time ( UTC+01:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are Western European Summer Time ( UTC+01:00).

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

References

External links

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
– official website
2018 Challenger Cup
– official website {{DEFAULTSORT:2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup FIVB 2018 in Portuguese sport International volleyball competitions hosted by Portugal

Sport in Matosinhos