| Competition: | Men's U21 World Championship |
| Continent: | World |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Size: | 250 px |
| Dates: | 22 August – 1 September |
| Teams: | 20 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 2 |
| Champions: | RUS |
| Title Number: | 9 |
| Mvp: |  Victor Poletaev |
| Website: | FIVB |
| Last: | 2011 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship |
| Next: | 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship |
The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was held in Turkey for ten days, from 22 August to 1 September 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament that features 20 teams.[1]
The 20 teams will be divided into four pools of five teams each and will play a round-robin tournament. The bottom-ranked team of each pool will play classification matches for 17th-20th place in a round-robin system.
The other 16 teams progress to the Eight Finals which consists of a playoff (1st of Pool A against 4th of Pool B etc.). The winners of the playoff matches will advance to the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals to be classified from 1st to 8th while the losers of playoff match will play classification matches, with a similar quarterfinals, semifinals and finals system, to be classified from 9th to 16th.
| width=32% | Means of qualification! | width=14% | Date! | width=25% | Host! | width=9% | Vacancies! | width=20% | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | 18 March 2012 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1 | ||||||
| 2013 African Junior Championship | 2–9 March 2013 |  Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia | 4 | ||||||
| 2012 Asian Junior Championship | 27 Sep–5 Oct 2012 | Urmia, Iran | 4 | ||||||
| 2012 European Junior Championship | 24 Aug–2 Sep 2012 |  Gdynia, Poland &<br> Randers, Denmark | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualification Tournament Pool A | 7–11 May 2013 | Anapa, Russia | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualification Tournament Pool B | 7–11 May 2013 |  Saint-Jean-d'Illac, France | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualification Tournament Pool C | 8–12 May 2013 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualification Tournament Pool D | 7–11 May 2013 |  Arilje, Serbia | 1 | ||||||
| 2012 NORCECA Junior Championship | 27 Aug–1 Sep 2012 |  Colorado Springs, United States | 3 | ||||||
| Canada | |||||||||
| 2012 South American Junior Championship | 23–27 October 2012 |  Saquarema, Brazil | 3 | ||||||
| Total | 20 | ||||||||
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D |
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| Iran | |||||||
| Canada | |||||||
Başkent Volleyball Hall, Ankara, Turkey – Pool A, B and Final round Atatürk Sport Hall, İzmir, Turkey – Pool C, D and Final roundMatch 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
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
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| 5 | Iran | ||
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| 12 | Canada | ||
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| 12–man roster | |
| Alexander Goncharov, Viktor Poletaev, Ivan Demakov, Alexey Kobilev, Roman Zhos, Ilya Nikitin, Nikita Axyutin, Pavel Pankov, Ilya Petrushov, Egor Feoktistov, Ilyas Kurkaev, Ilya Bykovskiy | |
| Head coach | |
| Mikhail Nikolaev |
Edoardo Picco