The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the
FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international men's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former
World League in the international calendar.
The competition was held between May and July 2018, and the final round took place in the
Stade Pierre-Mauroy
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,
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
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,
Lille metropolitan area, France.
South Korea
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were the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and were replaced by
2018 Challenger Cup winners
Portugal
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in the
2019 edition.
Russia
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won the inaugural edition, defeating
the home team in straight sets in the final. Both teams contesting the final had previously won the World League – Russia on three opportunities and France on two.
United States
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, which also had won the World League twice, defeated the reigning Olympic champions and 9-time World League winners
Brazil
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in straight sets for the bronze medal.
Maxim Mikhaylov from Russia, who was the World League MVP in
2011
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, was elected the
Most valuable player
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.
Qualification
Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.
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Format
Preliminary round
The 16 teams compete in a round-robin format with every core team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, for 120 matches. The top five teams after the preliminary round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round.[ The relegation takes into consideration only the 4 challenger teams. The last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the 2018 Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.
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Final round
The six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations League title. The losers face each other in the third place match.
Pools composition
The overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018.[
]
Preliminary round
Final round
Venues
The list of host cities and venues was announced on 16 February 2018.[
]
Preliminary round
Final round
Competition schedule
Pool standing procedure
# Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
# In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most points gained per match as follows:
#*Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
#*Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
#*Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
# If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
#*Sets quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all sets won by the number of all sets lost.
#*Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
#*If the tie persists based on the points quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Squads
The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.
Preliminary round
Ranking
Week 1
Pool 1
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 2
*All times are China Standard Time
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( UTC+08:00).
Pool 3
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 4
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 2
Pool 5
*All times are Eastern European Summer Time
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( UTC+03:00).
Pool 6
*All times are Brasília Time
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00), Brasília time (UTC−03:00), Amazon time (UTC−04:00), and Acr ...
( UTC−03:00).
Pool 7
*All times are Argentina Time
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( UTC−03:00).
Pool 8
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 3
Pool 9
*All times are Eastern Daylight Time
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* Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behin ...
( UTC−04:00).
Pool 10
*All times are Japan Standard Time
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( UTC+09:00).
Pool 11
*All times are Yekaterinburg Time ( UTC+05:00).
Pool 12
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 4
Pool 13
*All times are Korea Standard Time
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( UTC+09:00).
Pool 14
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 15
*All times are Central Daylight Time
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In parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and ...
( UTC−05:00).
Pool 16
*All times are Eastern European Summer Time
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( UTC+03:00).
Week 5
Pool 17
*All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00).
Time is regulated by the individual states a ...
( UTC+10:00).
Pool 18
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
( UTC+08:00).
Pool 19
*All times are Iran Daylight Time
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( UTC+04:30).
Pool 20
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Final round
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool play
Pool A
Pool B
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
''Source
VNL 2018 final standings
'
Awards
*Most valuable player
*:
*Best setter
*:
*Best outside spikers
*:
*:
*Best middle blockers
*:
*:
*Best opposite spiker
*:
*Best libero
*:
Statistics leaders
Preliminary round
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Final round
''Statistics leaders correct at the end of final round
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See also
*2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League
The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international women's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former FIVB Volleyba ...
* 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
* 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup
References
External links
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