2017 FIVB Volleyball World League


The 2017 FIVB Volleyball World League was the 28th edition of the annual men's international volleyball tournament played by 36 teams between 2 June and 8 July. The Group [|1] Final Round was held in Curitiba, Brazil.
In front of a crowd of 23,149 fans, France lifted the FIVB Volleyball World League trophy for the second time in their history, prevailing in an epic battle over hosts Brazil 3–2. This marked the fifth time in the last seven editions that Brazil reached the final and did not win the gold medal. Canada wrapped up their best ever World League campaign by seizing the bronze medal after a come-from-behind 3–1 win over the United States. Earvin N'Gapeth was elected the Most Valuable Player for the second time, after also being the MVP in 2015.
Slovenia defeated Japan in the Group 2 finals in Gold Coast, Australia to achieve their second straight group title since their debut last year.
Moreover, Estonia finished atop Group 3 in their first ever World League participation after a convincing 3–0 win over Spain in the final match in León, Mexico.
On 11 June 2017, the new one-set-score world record for national teams was established in the Group 3 intercontinental round match between Qatar and Venezuela. They spent 49 minutes in a 45–43 third set that was won by Qatar. The previous highest set score was 44–42, which had happened twice.

Qualification

  • Excluding and, which withdrew from the tournament, the remaining 34 teams from the 2016 edition directly qualified.
  • and qualified through the 2016 European League.
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Format

Intercontinental round

  • Group 1, the 12 teams were drawn into 9 pools of 4 teams. In each pool, all teams will compete in a round robin format. The results of all 9 pools will combine in 1 ranking table. The hosts and the top five ranked teams will play in the final round. The last ranked team after the Intercontinental Round could be relegated if the winners of the Group 2 Final Round can meet the promotion requirements set by the FIVB.
  • Group 2, the 12 teams were drawn in 9 pools of 4 teams. In each pool, all teams will compete in round robin format. The results of all 9 pools will combine in 1 ranking table. The hosts and the top three ranked teams will play in the final round. The last ranked team after the Intercontinental Round could be relegated if the winners of the Group 3 Final Round can meet the promotion requirements set by the FIVB.
  • Group 3, the 12 teams were drawn into 6 pools of 4 teams. In each pool, all teams will compete in round robin format. The results of all 6 pools will combine in 1 ranking table. The hosts and the top three ranked teams will play in the final round.

Final round

  • Group 1, the 6 teams in the final round will be divided in 2 pools determined by the serpentine system. The host team will be at the top position and the other teams will be allocated by their rankings in the preliminary round. The top 2 teams from each pool will play in the semifinals. The winning teams will play in the final match for the gold medals.
  • Group 2 and Group 3, the host team will face the last ranked team among the qualified teams in the semifinals. The other 2 teams will play against each other in the other semifinal. The winning teams will play in the final match for the gold medals and a chance for promotion.

Pools composition

The pools were announced on 13 September 2016.

Competition schedule

Week 1
2–4 Jun		Week 2
8–11 Jun		Week 3
15–18 Jun		Week 4
24–25 Jun		Week 6
4–8 Jul
Group 118 matches18 matches18 matches10 matches
Group 218 matches18 matches18 matches4 matches
Group 318 matches18 matches4 matches

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. 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

Intercontinental round

Group 1

Week 1

Pool A1

Week 2

Pool D1

Week 3

Pool G1

Group 2

Week 1

Pool A2

Week 2

Pool D2

Week 3

Pool G2

Group 3

Week 1

Pool A3

Week 2

Pool D3

Final round

Group 3

Final four (Week 3)

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Group 2

Final four (Week 4)

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Group 1

Pool play (Week 6)

Pool J1
Pool K1

Final four (Week 6)

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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Awards

Statistics leaders

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, recept, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill by group plus top scorers as of 24 June 2017.

Best scorers

Best scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.

Best spikers

Best spikers determined by successful spikes in percentage.

Best blockers

Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

Best servers

Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

Best setters

Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

Best diggers

Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

Best receivers

Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.