The final tournament was held in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018.[1]

Poland defended their world title, defeating the reigning Olympic champions Brazil in straight sets at a repeat of the 2014 final. United States won the 3rd place match, defeating Serbia in four sets.

Tournament statistics

Attendance

  • Matches played : 94
  • Attendance (first round) (played 60) : 190,213 (3,170 per match)
  • Attendance (second round) (played 24) : 90,124 (3,755 per match)
  • Attendance (third round) (played 6) : 61,361 (10,227 per match)
  • Attendance (final round) (played 4) : 47,331 (11,833 per match)
  • Total attendance on tournament : 389,029 (4,139 per match)
  • Most attendance : 12,875 -  Russia v.  Italy, Forum di Assago, Milan on 22 September 2018.
  • Fewest attendance : 230 -  Cuba v.  Puerto Rico, Palace of Culture and Sports, Varna on 17 September 2018.

Matches

Sets

  • Total sets (first round)  : 226 (3.77 per match)
  • Total sets (second round)  : 91 (3.79 per match)
  • Total sets (third round)  : 22 (3.67 per match)
  • Total sets (final round)  : 15 (3.75 per match)
  • Total sets scored : 353 (3.76 per match)
  • Most sets played : 46 -  Poland
  • Most sets wins : 32 -  Poland,  United States
  • Fewest sets wins : 1 -  Dominican Republic
  • Most sets lost : 21 -  Serbia,  Finland
  • Fewest sets lost : 11 -  Italy,  Japan
  • Highest set ratio : 2.462 -  United States (32/13)
  • Lowest set ratio : 0.067 -  Dominican Republic (1/15)

Points

  • Total points (first round)  : 9,882 (165 per match)
  • Total points (second round)  : 3,979 (166 per match)
  • Total points (third round)  : 967 (161 per match)
  • Total points (final round)  : 694 (174 per match)
  • Total points scored  : 15,522 (165 per match)
  • Most points wins : 1,068 -  Poland
  • Fewest points wins : 267 -  Dominican Republic
  • Most points lost : 991 -  Serbia
  • Fewest points lost : 398 -  Cameroon,  Dominican Republic
  • Highest points ratio : 1.141 -  Poland (1068/936)
  • Lowest points ratio : 0.671 -  Dominican Republic (267/398)

Squads

Coaches

  • Oldest coach: Antonio Giacobbe  Tunisia - 71 years and 212 days in the first game against Brazil.
  • Youngest coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo  Finland - 42 years and 206 days in the first game against Bulgaria.
  • Teams with foreign coaches: 7 teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams (Dominican Republic and Iran) of coaches whose home countries (Venezuela and Montenegro) did not qualify for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.

Players

  • Appearance record: Luciano de Cecco  Argentina, Nathan Roberts, Paul Carroll  Australia, Teodor Salparov  Bulgaria, Ahmed Abdelhay  Egypt and Marko Podraščanin  Serbia participated in the World Championship for the fourth time.
  • Oldest player: At 39 years and 130 days, Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet  Cameroon is the oldest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • Youngest player: Marlon Yang  Cuba is the youngest player at the age of 17 years and 111 days.
  • Tallest player: At 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), Dmitry Muserskiy  Russia is the tallest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • Shortest player: At 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in), Taichiro Koga  Japan is the shortest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals.
  • 21 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Japan and Puerto Rico nominated at least one player who is free agent, but only China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Italy, Japan, Puerto Rico and Russia exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league. By contrast, Australia, Canada and Netherlands nominated only players from foreign leagues.
  • The most players (51) are active in clubs based in Italy, the majority of them in the SuperLega. In total 15 of the 24 team squads have players who play in England.
  • From the leagues of countries that did not qualify for the World Cup, the Germany Bundesliga have the strongest representation with 12 players.

Multiple World Championships

Name Japan 2006 Italy 2010 Poland 2014 Italy/Bulgaria 2018 Total
Argentina Luciano de Cecco✔4
Australia Nathan Roberts✔4
Australia Paul Carroll✔4
Bulgaria Teodor Salparov✔4
Egypt Ahmed Abdelhay✔4
Serbia Marko Podraščanin✔4
Argentina Facundo Conte✔3
Argentina Pablo Crer✔3
Australia Travis Passier✔3
Brazil Bruno Rezende✔3
Brazil Lucas Saatkamp✔3
Bulgaria Nikolay Penchev✔3
Bulgaria Svetoslav Gotsev✔3
Bulgaria Viktor Yosifov✔3
Cameroon Alain Fossi Kamto✔3
Cameroon Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet✔3
Cameroon Nathan Wounembaina✔3
Cameroon Sem Dolegombai✔3
Canada John Gordon Perrin✔3
France Earvin N'Gapeth✔3
France Kévin Le Roux✔3
Iran Mohammad Mousavi✔3
Iran Saeid Marouf✔3
Italy Ivan Zaytsev✔3
Egypt Abdallah Abdalsalam✔✔3
Egypt Mohamed Badawy✔3
Egypt Rashad Atia✔3
Poland Michał Kubiak✔3
Poland Piotr Nowakowski✔3
Puerto Rico Ángel Pérez✔✔3
Russia Aleksey Verbov✔✔3
Russia Dmitry Muserskiy✔✔3
Russia Sergey Grankin✔3
Russia Yury Berezhko✔✔3
Serbia Nemanja Petrić✔3
Serbia Nikola Rosić✔3
Tunisia Ahmed Kadhi✔3
Tunisia Amen Allah Hmissi✔✔3
Tunisia Anouer Taouerghi✔3
Tunisia Hamza Nagga✔3
Tunisia Nabil Miladi✔3
United States Maxwell Holt✔3
Argentina Alexis González✔✔2
Argentina José Luis González✔2
Argentina Martín Ramos✔2
Argentina Sebastián Solé✔2
Australia Harrison Peacock✔2
Australia Luke Perry✔2
Australia Luke Smith✔2
Australia Nehemiah Mote✔2
Belgium Bram Van Den Dries✔2
Belgium Hendrik Tuerlinckx✔2
Belgium Kevin Klinkenberg✔2
Belgium Lowie Stuer✔2
Belgium Matthias Valkiers✔2
Belgium Pieter Coolman✔2
Belgium Sam Deroo✔2
Belgium Simon Van De Voorde✔2
Brazil Éder Carbonera✔2
Brazil Luiz Felipe Fonteles✔2
Brazil Maurício Souza✔2
Brazil Wallace de Souza✔2
Bulgaria Georgi Seganov✔2
Bulgaria Miroslav Gradinarov✔2
Bulgaria Nikolay Nikolov✔✔2
Bulgaria Teodor Todorov✔2
Bulgaria Todor Skrimov✔2
Bulgaria Valentin Bratoev✔✔2
Cameroon Ahmed Awal Mbutngam✔2
Cameroon David Feughouo✔✔2
Cameroon Hervé Kofane Boyomo✔2
Cameroon Jean Pierre Ndongo✔✔2
Cameroon Yvan Bitjaa✔2
Canada Graham Vigrass✔2
Canada Nicholas Hoag✔2
Canada Steven Marshall✔2
Canada TJ Sanders✔2
China Chen Longhai✔2
China Ji Daoshuai✔2
China Zhang Chen✔✔2
Cuba Liván Osoria✔2
Egypt Abou Abd Elahim✔2
Egypt Hossam Abdalla✔2
Egypt Mohamed Thakil✔2
Finland Eemi Tervaportti✔2
Finland Lauri Kerminen✔2
Finland Tommi Siirilä✔2
Finland Mikko Esko✔2
Finland Urpo Sivula✔2
France Benjamin Toniutti✔2
France Jenia Grebennikov✔2
France Jonas Aguenier✔2
France Kévin Tillie✔2
France Nicolas Le Goff✔2
Iran Milad Ebadipour✔2
Iran Amir Ghafour✔2
Iran Farhad Ghaemi✔2
Iran Saman Faezi✔2
Italy Filippo Lanza✔2
Italy Michele Baranowicz✔2
Italy Salvatore Rossini✔2
Italy Simone Anzani✔2
Japan Tatsuya Fukuzawa✔✔2
Poland Dawid Konarski✔2
Poland Fabian Drzyzga✔2
Poland Grzegorz Łomacz✔✔2
Poland Bartosz Kurek✔✔2
Poland Paweł Zatorski✔2
Puerto Rico Dennis Del Valle✔2
Puerto Rico Edgardo Goás✔2
Puerto Rico Ezequiel Cruz✔2
Puerto Rico Maurice Torres✔2
Russia Artem Volvich✔2
Russia Maxim Mikhaylov✔✔2
Serbia Aleksandar Atanasijević✔2
Serbia Marko Ivović✔2
Serbia Neven Majstorović✔2
Serbia Srećko Lisinac✔2
Serbia Uroš Kovačević✔2
Tunisia Elyes Karamosli✔2
Tunisia Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi✔2
United States David Smith✔2
United States Kawika Shoji✔2
United States Matt Anderson✔2
United States Micah Christenson✔2
United States Taylor Sander✔2

Final standing

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification or relegation
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Poland 12 9 3 28 32 14 2.286 1068 936 1.141 Champions
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Brazil 12 10 2 27 31 13 2.385 1024 925 1.107 Runners up
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United States 12 10 2 29 32 13 2.462 1044 927 1.126 Third place
4  Serbia 12 7 5 20 24 21 1.143 1012 991 1.021 Fourth place
5  Italy 10 8 2 24 26 11 2.364 841 742 1.133 Eliminated in
third round
6  Russia 10 6 4 19 23 14 1.643 850 759 1.120
7  France 8 5 3 18 21 12 1.750 765 688 1.112 Eliminated in
second round
8  Netherlands 8 5 3 14 16 15 1.067 692 661 1.047
9  Canada 8 5 3 13 18 14 1.286 712 694 1.026
10  Belgium 8 4 4 14 16 14 1.143 667 657 1.015
11  Bulgaria 8 4 4 13 16 12 1.333 625 617 1.013
12  Slovenia 8 4 4 13 17 16 1.063 722 716 1.008
13  Iran 8 4 4 12 14 16 0.875 674 664 1.015
14  Australia 8 3 5 9 12 19 0.632 665 701 0.949
15  Argentina 8 3 5 8 14 19 0.737 725 751 0.965
16  Finland 8 2 6 6 10 21 0.476 638 719 0.887
17  Japan 5 2 3 5 8 11 0.727 414 427 0.970 Eliminated in
first round
18  Cuba 5 1 4 3 6 13 0.462 392 436 0.899
19  Cameroon 5 1 4 3 4 12 0.333 334 398 0.839
20  Egypt 5 1 4 3 4 13 0.308 368 426 0.864
21  Puerto Rico 5 0 5 1 3 15 0.200 331 435 0.761
22  China 5 0 5 0 3 15 0.200 375 440 0.852
23  Tunisia 5 0 5 0 2 15 0.133 317 414 0.766
24  Dominican Republic 5 0 5 0 1 15 0.067 267 398 0.671

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 at the completion of the tournament.[2] Only players whose teams advanced to the final round are taken in consideration.

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ITALY, BULGARIA TO CO-HOST MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WORLDS IN 2018". foxsports. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Statistics". FIVB.
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