2021 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Men's African Nations Championship
Continent:	Africa
Year:	2021
Size:	260
City:	Kigali
Dates:	7–14 September
Teams:	16
Confederations:	1
Venues:	2
Cities:	1
Champions:	TUN
Title Number:	11
Second:	CMR
Third:	EGY
Fourth:	MAR
Mvp:	Mohamed Al Hachdadi
Setter:	Khaled Ben Slimene
Middle Blockers:	Christian Voukeng Mbativou
Libero:	Mohamed Hassan (volleyball)
Last:	2019 Men's African Volleyball Championship
Next:	2023 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship

The 2021 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship was the 23rd edition of the Men's African Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) with Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB). The tournament was held in Kigali, Rwanda from 7 to 14 September 2021. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the CAVB representatives.^[1]

Qualification

16 teams have registered to participate in the 2021 African Championship.

originally qualified, but declined to enter.

width=25%	Means of qualification	width=27%	Dates!	width=20%	Hosts!	width=6%	Quota!	width=22%	Qualifier(s)
Host nation			1
2019 African Championship	21–28 July 2019	Tunis	5
Zone 2 representatives			1
Zone 3 representatives			3
Zone 4 representatives			1
Zone 5 representatives			5
Total			16

Pools composition

Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–).The host country and the top 8 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system. The 10 remaining teams were drawn in Kigali, Rwanda on 6 September 2021.

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(Hosts)	(1)	(2)	(4)
(–)	(–)	(8)	(5)
(9)	(–)	(–)	(–)
(–)	(–)	(–)	(–)

Venue

Kigali
width=150px	Kigali Arena	width=150px	Petit Stade Amahoro
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 3,000

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
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.

Group stage

All times are Central Africa Time .

Pool A

The confederation has decided to postpone the match between and, originally scheduled for 10 September at 10:00, in consideration of the health and safety of players and coaches. The match was rescheduled for 10 September at 16:00 after COVID-19 tests for Burundi team were negative.

Pool D

The confederation has decided to remove from the ongoing tournament for having failed to comply with their financial obligations. Their games were forfeited and will receive zero classification point.

Final round

All times are Central Africa Time .

9th–16th places

9th place match

Final eight

Final

Final standing

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width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc		Qualified for the 2022 World Championship

14–man roster
Yassine Kassis, Ahmed Kadhi, Khaled Ben Slimene, Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi, Elyes Karamosli, Omar Agrebi, Hamza Nagga, Ismaïl Moalla, Mehdi Ben Cheikh (c), Selim Mbareki, Wassim Ben Tara, Mohamed Ayech, Ali Bongui, Saddem Hmissi
Head coach
Antonio Giacobbe