2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup

The 2019 FIVB Men's World Cup was the 14th edition of the event, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held from 1 to 15 October 2019 in Japan. That was the first time since 1989 that FIVB decided not to allocate any spots in the Olympics, due to Japan hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the competition by being one of the top two teams of each continental federation based on FIVB World Ranking on 1 January 2019.

	Qualified to 2019 FIVB World Cup
	Host and 2018 World Champion

Rank	Team	WC 2015	OG 2016	WL 2017	WCH 2018	Total	Note
1		80	100	45	90	315	CSV first team
2		100	80	40	80	300	NORCECA first team
3		90	90	24	62	266	CEV first team
4		80	50	32	100	262	2018 World champion
5		70	70	38	56	234	CEV second team
6		30	50	42	45	167	NORCECA second team
7		50	50	28	33	161	CSV second team
8		25	50	26	36	137	AVC first team
9		0	30	50	50	130
10		0	2	38	70	110
11		40	2	20	30	92	Host
12		0	1	34	45	80
13		5	30	10	30	75	CAVB first team
14		0	2	30	40	72
15		0	0	18	50	68
16		5	3	19	36	63	AVC second team
17		0	0	22	40	62
18		0	20	0	30	50
19		0	1	13	33	47
20		0	2	17	25	44
21		0	20	6	14	40
22		5	3	5	25	38	CAVB second team

Qualified teams

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Format

The competition system of the 2019 World Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the other 11 teams.
The teams were divided into 2 pools of 6 teams each. In round 1, total 30 matches in 5 days, each teams played against the other teams from the same pool. For rounds 2 and 3, total 36 matches in 6 days, each team played against the teams from another pool. Numbers in brackets denoted the FIVB World Ranking as of 1 January 2019 except the hosts who ranked 11th.

Match points
Number of matches won
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

Results

First round

Site A

Site B

Second round

Site A

Site B

Third round

Site A

Site B

Final standing

Rank	Team



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6
7
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9
10
11
12

Awards

Most valuable player

: Alan SouzaBest setter
: Micah ChristensonBest outside spikers
: Wilfredo León
: Yūki IshikawaBest middle blockers
: Maxwell Holt
: Lucas SaatkampBest opposite spiker
: Yūji NishidaBest libero
: Thales Hoss

Statistics leaders

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