The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship was the sixteenth 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

Tunis Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

and

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Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

from 21 to 30 August 2019. Tunisia played hosts for this event for the first time. The finals involved 20 teams, of which 19 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 20 teams, 13 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while

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and

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made their first appearances at a FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship.

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was the defending champions, having won their second title in

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. Players must be born on or after 1 January 2001.

Qualification

A total of 20 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Tunisia who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 19 teams qualified from five separate continental competitions. :1.Teams that made their debut.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool 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 FIVB U19 World Ranking as of 1 January 2019. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the U19 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U19 World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in

on 27 June 2019. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 17th. ;Draw

Squads

Venues

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+01:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+01:00).

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 *: Tommaso Rinaldi *Best setter *: Paolo Porro *Best outside spikers *: Tommaso Rinaldi *: Omar Kurbanov *Best middle blockers *: Nicola Cianciotta *: Agustin Gallardo *Best opposite spiker *: Roman Murashko *Best libero *: Ilia Fedorov

References

External links

Official website
{{Portal bar, Volleyball, Africa, Sports FIVB Boys' U19 Volleyball World Championship FIVB U19 World Championship International volleyball competitions hosted by Tunisia 2019 in Tunisian sport FIVB Volleyball