2020 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship Explained

Competition:Men's U20 European Championship
Continent:Europe
Year:2020
Dates:26 September – 4 October
Teams:10
Confederations:1
Venues:2
Cities:2
Title Number:20
Mvp: Alessandro Michieletto
Setter: Paolo Porro
Outside Spikers: Tommaso Rinaldi
Omar Kurbanov
Middle Blockers: Wout D'Heer
Iurii Brazhniuk
Opposite Spiker: Ferre Reggers
Libero: Ilia Fedorov
Website:Official website
Last:2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship
Next:2022 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship

The 2020 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship was the 27th edition of the Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. The tournament was held in Brno and Kuřim, Czech Republic from 26 September to 4 October 2020. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship as the CEV representatives.[1] But with runners-up Italy hosting the 2021 U21 World Championship together with Bulgaria, 3rd place Belgium joined the field for the 2021 U21 World Championship as well.[2]

Players must be born on or after 1 January 2001.

Qualification

The second and third round qualification were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the remaining eleven spots were allocated according to the Men's U20 CEV European Ranking as of 1 June 2019.[3] [4] But, Turkey and Ukraine withdrew just before the beginning of the tournament because a small number of their players tested positive for the novel coronavirus shortly upon arrival in the Czech Republic.[5]

Pools composition

Hosts Czech Republic and Russia, the top team from the Men's U20 CEV European Ranking as of 1 June 2019,[4] were directly placed as head of pool I and II respectively. All teams not seeded were placed to five pots as based on their Men's U20 CEV European Ranking as of 1 June 2019 position and drawn accordingly into pool I and II. In case several teams shared the same position, the teams were seeded as per the final standing of the 2018 Men's U20 European Championship. The draw was held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on 27 August 2020.[1] But, Turkey and Ukraine withdrew after the draw. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 5th.

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Draw
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Venues

Pool standing procedure

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

Pool II

Final round

5th–8th places

5th place match

Final four

Final

Final standing

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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2021 U21 World Championship
width=10px bgcolor=#87ceebAlready qualified as hosts for the 2021 U21 World Championship
12–man roster
Anton Anoshko, Mikhail Fedorov, Iurii Brazhniuk, Stanislav Dineykin, Kirill Ionov, Ilya Kazachenkov (c), Omar Kurbanov, Roman Murashko, Ilia Fedorov, Egor Kasatkin, Mikhail Vyshnikov, Nikita Morozov
Head coach
Mikhail Nikolaev

Awards

Alessandro Michieletto

Paolo Porro

Tommaso Rinaldi

Omar Kurbanov

Wout D'Heer

Iurii Brazhniuk

Ferre Reggers

Ilia Fedorov

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: #EuroVolleyU20M Drawing of Lots held in Luxembourg . 27 August 2020 . . 26 September 2020.
  2. Web site: FIVB announces hosts for 2021 FIVB Volleyball Age Group World Championships . 13 October 2020 . . 13 October 2020.
  3. Web site: CEV confirms cancellation of age-group qualifiers . 15 June 2020 . . 26 September 2020.
  4. Web site: CEV European National Team Ranking List - U20 Men (as per 01.06.2019) . 1 June 2019 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200915100146/https://www.cev.eu/Rankings/MenU20.aspx . 15 September 2020.
  5. Web site: Revised competition schedule for #EuroVolleyU20M confirmed . 25 September 2020 . . 26 September 2020.