Competition: | Boys' U19 World Championship |
Other Titles: | بطولة العالم للكرة الطائرة رجال تحت 19 عاما 2019 تونس |
Continent: | World |
Year: | 2019 |
Size: | 280 |
Dates: | 21–30 August |
Teams: | 20 |
Confederations: | 5 |
Venues: | 2 |
Cities: | 2 |
Title Number: | 2 |
Mvp: | Tommaso Rinaldi |
Setter: | Paolo Porro |
Outside Spikers: | Tommaso Rinaldi Omar Kurbanov |
Middle Blockers: | Nicola Cianciotta Agustin Gallardo |
Opposite Spiker: | Roman Murashko |
Libero: | Ilia Fedorov |
Website: | u19.boys.2019.volleyball.fivb.com |
Last: | 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship |
Next: | 2021 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship |
The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship was the sixteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 19 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Tunis and Radès, Tunisia from 21 to 30 August 2019. Tunisia played hosts for this event for the first time.[1]
The finals involved 20 teams, of which 19 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 20 teams, 13 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while Colombia and Nigeria made their first appearances at a FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship.
Iran was the defending champions, having won their second title in Bahrain.
Players must be born on or after 1 January 2001.
A total of 20 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Tunisia who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 19 teams qualified from five separate continental competitions.
Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualifier | |
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Host Country | 28 August 2018 | Lausanne | 1 | ||
2018 European Championship | 7–15 April 2018 | Zlín & Púchov | 6 | ||
2018 NORCECA Championship | 6–10 June 2018 | San José | 2 | ||
2018 Asian Championship | 29 June – 6 July 2018 | Tabriz | 4 | ||
2018 African Youth Games | 19–24 July 2018 | Algiers | 2 | ||
2018 South American Championship[2] | 24–28 October 2018 | Sopó | 3 | ||
2019 Pan-American Cup for NORCECA | 24–29 April 2019 | Santo Domingo | 2 | ||
Total | 20 |
1.Teams that made their debut.
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U19 World Ranking as of 1 January 2019.[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the U19 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U19 World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Tunis, Tunisia on 27 June 2019. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 17th.
Seeded teams | width=20% | Pot 1 | width=20% | Pot 2 | width=20% | Pot 3 | |
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width=20% | (Hosts) (1) (2) (3) | width=20% | (4) (5) (6) (7) | (9) (10) (11) (12) | (15) (16) (18) (21) | (26) (31) (35) (72) |
See main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship squads.
width=50% | Pool A, B and Final round | width=50% | Pool C, D and Final round |
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Tunis, Tunisia | Radès, Tunisia | ||
El Menzah Sports Palace | Salle Omnisport de Radès | ||
Capacity: 5,500 | Capacity: 17,000 | ||
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
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12–man roster | |
Damiano Catania, Leonardo Ferrato, Federico Crosato, Alessandro Michieletto, Piervito Disabato (c), Alberto Pol, Tommaso Stefani, Alessandro Gianotti, Giulio Magalini, Tommaso Rinaldi, Paolo Porro, Nicola Cianciotta | |
Head coach | |
Vincenzo Fanizza |
Tommaso Rinaldi
Paolo Porro
Tommaso Rinaldi
Omar Kurbanov
Nicola Cianciotta
Agustin Gallardo
Roman Murashko
Ilia Fedorov