2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
서울 2022 FIVB 발리볼챌린저컵
Seoul, host city
Tournament details
Host nation South Korea
CitySeoul
Dates28–31 July
Teams8 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Cuba (1st title)
Runners-up Turkey
Third place South Korea
Fourth place Czech Republic
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Attendance14,200 (1,775 per match)
Best scorerTurkey Adis Lagumdzija (64 points)
Best spikerSouth Korea Heo Su-bong (50.00 %)
Best blockerTurkey Faik Samet Güneş (3.33 Avg)
Best serverCuba Osniel Melgarejo (2.00 Avg)
Best diggerCzech Republic Milan Moník (9.00 Avg)
Best receiverCzech Republic Milan Moník (28.57 %)
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Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the third edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The tournament was held at Jamsil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, between 28 and 31 July 2022.[1][2]

Cuba won the title, defeating Turkey in the final, and earned the right to participate in 2023 Nations League replacing Australia, the last placed challenger team after the 2022 edition. South Korea defeated Czech Republic in the 3rd place match.[3]

Qualification

A total of 8 teams qualified for the tournament.[4][5]

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Turkey CEV 2021 European Golden League champions 20 June 2021 1 2019 2019 4th place (2019)
 Qatar AVC 1st World ranked team from AVC 31 March 2022 0 None None
 Tunisia CAVB 1st World ranked team from CAVB 31 March 2022 0 None None
 Chile CSV 1st World ranked team from CSV 31 March 2022 2 2018 2019 5th place (2018)
 Cuba NORCECA 1st World ranked team from NORCECA 31 March 2022 2 2018 2019 Runners-up (2019)
 South Korea AVC Host country 8 April 2022 0 None None
 Czech Republic CEV 2022 European Golden League champions 18 June 2022 1 2018 2018 Runners-up (2018)
 Australia AVC 2022 Nations League last placed challenger team 10 July 2022 0 None None

Format

The tournament will compete in the knock-out format (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final), with the host country (South Korea) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team among the participating teams. The remaining seven teams are placed from 2nd to 8th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 10 July 2022.[4][6] Rankings are shown in brackets except the host.

Match Top ranker Bottom ranker
Quarterfinal 1  South Korea (Hosts)  Australia (38)
Quarterfinal 2  Cuba (13)  Chile (27)
Quarterfinal 3  Tunisia (15)  Czech Republic (24)
Quarterfinal 4  Turkey (17)  Qatar (21)

Rule changes

  1. Court switch at the end of the sets to be eliminated due to COVID-19 safety guidelines and for a better television broadcasts.
  2. Each team is allowed to call only one time-out during each set in the preliminary. The time-out lasts 30 seconds long.
  3. Only one technical time-out is made when the leading team reaches 12 points.

Squads

Venue

All matches
Seoul, South Korea
Jamsil Students' Gymnasium
Capacity: 7,500

Pool standing procedure

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

Knockout stage

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
28 July – Seoul
 
 
 South Korea3
 
30 July – Seoul
 
 Australia2
 
 South Korea0
 
29 July – Seoul
 
 Turkey3
 
 Turkey3
 
31 July – Seoul
 
 Qatar1
 
 Turkey1
 
28 July – Seoul
 
 Cuba3
 
 Cuba3
 
30 July – Seoul
 
 Chile0
 
 Cuba3
 
29 July – Seoul
 
 Czech Republic0 3rd place match
 
 Tunisia1
 
31 July – Seoul
 
 Czech Republic3
 
 South Korea3
 
 
 Czech Republic2
 

Quarterfinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
28 Jul15:30Cuba 3–0 Chile25–2025–1925–19  75–58P2 Report
28 Jul19:00South Korea 3–2 Australia23–2525–2325–1822–2515–13110–104P2 Report
29 Jul12:00Turkey 3–1 Qatar25–2325–1622–2525–15 97–79P2 Report
29 Jul15:30Tunisia 1–3 Czech Republic16–2525–1726–2816–25 83–95P2 Report

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul12:00Cuba 3–0 Czech Republic25–2225–1825–18  75–58P2 Report
30 Jul15:30South Korea 0–3 Turkey24–2621–2522–25  67–76P2 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
31 Jul12:00South Korea 3–2 Czech Republic25–1925–1624–2623–2522–20119–106P2 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
31 Jul15:45Turkey 1–3 Cuba17–2525–2320–2520–25 82–98P2 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Croatia and Korea to welcome 2022 Challenger Cup tournaments". FIVB. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Volleyball Challenger Cup battles coming up in Croatia and Korea". volleyballworld. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Croatia and Cuba secure Volleyball Challenger Cup titles". vollleyballworld. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  4. 1 2 "There's an international competition in Korea!". Volleybox. KVOLLEY. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "VNL Qualification System (VNL Promotion-Relegation Process)". volleyballworld. 3 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Competition Formula". volleyballworld. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
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