2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Men's European Volleyball Championship
Continent:	Europe
Year:	2019
Size:	250px
Host:
Dates:	12–29 September
Teams:	24
Confederations:	1
Venues:	10
Cities:	9
Champions:	SRB
Title Number:	3
Second:	SLO
Third:	POL
Fourth:	FRA
Mvp:	Uroš Kovačević
Setter:	Benjamin Toniutti
Outside Spikers:	Wilfredo León Uroš Kovačević
Middle Blockers:	Jan Kozamernik Srećko Lisinac
Opposite Spiker:	Aleksandar Atanasijević
Libero:	Jani Kovačič
Matches:	76
Attendance:	250077
Website:	Official website
Last:	2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship
Next:	2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship

The 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship was the 31st edition of the Men's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. For the first time the EuroVolley was held in four countries: France, Slovenia, Belgium and Netherlands. The tournament ran from 12 to 29 September 2019. The number of national teams participating in the event was also expanded from 16 to 24.^[1]

Serbia won the title over finalist Slovenia in the final held in Paris.

Qualification

See main article: 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship qualification.

Pools composition

Montenegro and North Macedonia made their first appearance, whilst Russia was the defending champions. The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:

The 4 Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. France in Pool A, Belgium in Pool B, Slovenia in Pool C and Netherlands in Pool D.
The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools,
According to the CEV National Team ranking list as per 4 September 2017, National Federations are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.

width=20%	Pot 1	width=20%	Pot 2	width=20%	Pot 3	width=20%	Pot 4	width=20%	Pot 5

DrawThe drawing of lots was held on 16 January 2019 at the Atomium, Brussels, Belgium.^[2]

Squads

See main article: 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads.

Venues

Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pool A	Round of 16 and Quarterfinals	Semifinals and Finals
	Nantes, France	Paris, France
		AccorHotels Arena
Capacity: 10,700	Capacity: 10,750	Capacity: 15,609
	No Image
Pool B (13–14 September)	Pool B (15–19 September)	Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
	Antwerp, Belgium
		Sportpaleis
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 5,218	Capacity: 18,400

Pool C, Round of 16, Quarterfinals and Semifinals
Arena Stožice
Capacity: 12,480

Pool D (13–16 September)	Pool D (17–19 September)	Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
Rotterdam, Netherlands		Apeldoorn, Netherlands
	Sporthallen Zuid	Omnisport Apeldoorn
Capacity: 16,426	Capacity: 2,525	Capacity: 5,000

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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

Preliminary round

All times are Central European Summer Time .
The top four teams in each pool qualified for the final round.

Group D

Final round

All times are Central European Summer Time .

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

14–man roster
Aleksandar Okolić, Uroš Kovačević, Nemanja Petrić (c), Lazar Ćirović, Nikola Peković, Petar Krsmanović, Marko Ivović, Nikola Jovović, Aleksandar Atanasijević, Dražen Luburić, Neven Majstorović, Marko Podraščanin, Srećko Lisinac, Vuk Todorović
Head coach
Slobodan Kovač