The European Qualification Tournament for the
2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
tournament for men's national teams held in
Berlin
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, Germany from 5 to 10 January 2020. Eight teams played in the tournament and the winners
France
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qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Qualification
The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the
CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019
which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked tenth.
* (Hosts)
* (1)
* (3)
* (6)
* (7)
* (8)
* (9)
* (11)
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the
serpentine system
The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...
according to their CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019.
CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking.
Venue
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
Central European Time
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The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00.
It is used in most parts of Eur ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
*All times are
Central European Time
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The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00.
It is used in most parts of Eur ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Semifinals
Final
Final standing
Qualifying team for Summer Olympics
Awards
*Most valuable player
*:
Jean Patry
*Best setter
*:
Lukas Kampa
*Best outside spikers
*:
Denys Kaliberda
*:
Earvin N'Gapeth
Earvin Ngapeth (born 12 February 1991) is a French professional volleyball player, member of the France national volleyball team and Turkish club Fenerbahçe, 2015 European Champion, gold medallist of the World League (2015 and 2017), Fren ...
*Best middle blockers
*:
Viktor Yosifov
*:
Nicolas Le Goff
*Best opposite spiker
*:
Jean Patry
*Best libero
*:
Jenia Grebennikov
See also
*
Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification
References
External links
Official website – FIVBOfficial website – CEVEvent website – CEVFinal StandingMost Valuable PlayerDream Team
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2020 in volleyball
Volleyball qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics
2020 in German sport
Sports competitions in Berlin
International volleyball competitions hosted by Germany
January 2020 sports events in Germany