2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League explained

Competition:	FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
Continent:	World
Year:	2024
Host:	Poland
City:	Łódź (final round)
Dates:	21 May – 30 June 2024
Teams:	16
Confederations:	4
Venues:	7
Cities:	7
Champions:	FRA
Title Number:	2
Second:	JPN
Third:	POL
Fourth:	SLO
Mvp:	Antoine Brizard
Setter:	Antoine Brizard
Opposite Spiker:	Jean Patry
Libero:	Tomohiro Yamamoto
Matches:	104
Website:	Volleyball Nations League
Last:	2023 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
Next:	2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League

The 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the sixth edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held from 21 May to 30 June 2024, with the final round taking place at the Atlas Arena, Łódź, Poland.^[1]

Following the results of the 2023 Nations League and the 2023 Challenger Cup, China were replaced by debutants Turkey in this edition.^[2]

France won their second VNL title after a four-set match against Japan in the final. It was Japan's first silver medal in 47 years. Finals host Poland swept Slovenia in the third place match to bag their third bronze medal.^[3] Antoine Brizard from France was named the MVP of the tournament.^[4]

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Ten of them qualified as core teams, which cannot face relegation, with the other six teams selected as the challenger teams that could be relegated from the tournament. Turkey replaced China after winning the 2023 Challenger Cup. In a change of format for the next edition, none of the current teams will be relegated, and from the year 2025 onwards the competition will expand to 18 teams. The two extra spots will be from the team that wins the 2024 Challenger Cup and the best FIVB ranked team who are not in this year event.^[5]

Country	Confederation	Designation	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
	CSV	Core team	5	2018	2023	5th place (2023)
	CSV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2021)
	CEV	Challenger team	5	2018	2023	11th place (2018)
	NORCECA	Challenger team	5	2018	2023	7th place (2018)
	NORCECA	Challenger team	1	2023	13th place (2023)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2022)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	9th place (2018)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	5th place (2019)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	4th place (2022, 2023)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	3rd place (2023)
	CEV	Challenger team	3	2021	2023	8th place (2022)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2023)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	5th place (2018)
	CEV	Challenger team	3	2021	2023	4th place (2021)
	CEV	Challenger team	0	None	None
	NORCECA	Core team	5	2018	2023	Runners-up (2019, 2022, 2023)

Format

Preliminary round

The format of play is generally the same as in the 2022 edition. However, the current format has the 16 men's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. Each team play 12 matches during the pool stage. Eight teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition.^[6]

Final round

The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase, which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals, and the bronze and gold medal matches.

Final 8 direct elimination formula:

• The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, and the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team.
• The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation team do not finish in the top eight in the Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.

Pool composition

The overview of pools was released on 8 December 2023.^[7]

Week 1		Week 2		Week 3
width=16%	Pool 1 Turkey	width=16%	Pool 2 Brazil	width=16%	Pool 3 Japan	width=16%	Pool 4 Canada	width=16%	Pool 5 Slovenia	width=16%	Pool 6 Philippines

Venues

Preliminary round

width=100% colspan=2	Week 1
width=50%	Pool 1	width=50%	Pool 2
Antalya, Turkey	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Antalya Sports Hall	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 11,800
width=100% colspan=2	Week 2
width=50%	Pool 3	width=50%	Pool 4
Fukuoka, Japan	Ottawa, Canada
West Japan General Exhibition Center	TD Place Arena
Capacity: 7,900	Capacity: 5,500
width=100% colspan=2	Week 3
width=50%	Pool 5	width=50%	Pool 6
Ljubljana, Slovenia	Manila, Philippines
Arena Stožice	SM Mall of Asia Arena
Capacity: 12,480	Capacity: 15,000

Final round

All matches
Łódź, Poland
Atlas Arena
Capacity: 13,805

Competition schedule

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Preliminary round

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Final round

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply, with the teams ranked by the most points gained per match as follows:
   • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
   • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
   • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
   • Sets quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all sets won by the number of all sets lost.
   • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
   • If the tie persists based on the points quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match between the tied teams during the Round Robin Phase. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams will be ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

See main article: 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League squads.

Preliminary round

Ranking

Week 1

Pool 1

• All times are Turkey Standard Time .

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Pool 2

• All times are Brasília Time .

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Week 2

Pool 3

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Pool 4

• All times are Eastern Daylight Time .

Week 3

Pool 5

• All times are Central European Summer Time .

Pool 6

• All times are Philippine Standard Time .

Final round

• All times are Central European Summer Time .

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final standing

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Source: VNL 2024 final standings

14–man roster
Jenia Grebennikov, Jean Patry, Benjamin Toniutti (c), Kévin Tillie, Earvin N'Gapeth, Antoine Brizard, Nicolas Le Goff, Trévor Clévenot, Yacine Louati, Benjamin Diez, Théo Faure, Timothée Carle, Quentin Jouffroy, Joris Seddik
Head coach
Andrea Giani

Awards

• Most valuable player

• Best setter

• Best outside spikers

• Best middle blocker

• Best opposite spiker

• Best libero

• Fair play team award

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Statistics leaders correct as of Week 3 of preliminary round.^[8]

Best Scorers
	width=200	Player	width=20	Attacks	width=20	Blocks	width=20	Serves	width=20	Total
1	Tonček Štern	265	24	31	320
2	Nimir Abdel-Aziz	235	9	40	284
3	Stephen Maar	194	17	14	225
4	Klemen Čebulj	179	21	18	218
5		167	15	14	196

Best Attackers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Spikes	width=20	Faults	width=20	Shots	width=20		width=20
1	Tonček Štern	265	68	153	54.53	486
2	Nimir Abdel-Aziz	235	81	138	51.76	454
3	Stephen Maar	194	59	150	48.14	403
4	Klemen Čebulj	179	63	149	45.78	391
5		167	49	98	53.18	314

Best Blockers
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20	Rebounds	width=20		width=20
1	Nicolas Le Goff	34	51	53	2.27	138
	Agustín Loser	34	59	47	2.62	140
2	Flávio Gualberto	33	68	51	2.75	152
3	Nicolás Zerba	30	47	52	2.31	129
4	Aleks Grozdanov	29	40	55	2.42	124
5	Jan Kozamernik	26	68	64	1.73	158
	Marko Podraščanin	26	39	39	2.17	104

Best Servers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Aces	width=20	Faults	width=20	Hits	width=20		width=20
1	Nimir Abdel-Aziz	40	56	94	3.33	190
2	Tonček Štern	31	55	178	2.07	264
3	Dražen Luburić	24	37	92	2.00	153
4	Yuji Nishida	19	45	99	1.27	163
5	Gregor Ropret	18	34	161	1.20	213
	Klemen Čebulj	18	45	143	1.20	206

Best Setters
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Gregor Ropret	359	9	831	23.93	1199
2	Luciano De Cecco	310	6	650	23.85	966
3	Luke Herr	302	3	768	23.23	1073
4	Simeon Nikolov	276	9	555	23.00	840
5	Fernando Kreling	267	8	624	20.54	899

Best Diggers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Digs	width=20	Faults	width=20	Receptions	width=20		width=20
1		123	58	7	9.46	188
2	Jani Kovačič	116	63	14	7.73	193
3	Jenia Grebennikov	114	65	11	7.60	190
5	Tomohiro Yamamoto	94	47	5	6.27	146
5	Thales Hoss	92	33	7	7.08	132

Best Receivers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Excellents	width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Arman Salehi	90	16	164	33.33	270
2	Klemen Čebulj	84	22	237	24.49	343
3	Jani Kovačič	78	21	204	25.74	303
4	Yacine Louati	71	13	204	24.65	288
5	Thales Hoss	65	15	161	26.97	241

See also

• 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
• 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics

External links

• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball FIVB
• FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2024 – official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: VNL Men’s Finals going to Łódź in 2024 . Volleyball World . 15 June 2024 . 18 December 2023.
2. Web site: Dream come true for Türkiye as they win Challenger Cup 2023 . Volleyball World . 21 December 2023 . 30 July 2023 . 30 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230730191442/https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/challenger-cup-2023/news/dream-come-true-for-turkiye-as-they-win-challenger-cup-2023 . live.
3. Web site: France regain VNL title ahead of the Paris Olympics . Volleyball World . 30 June 2024 . 30 June 2024.
4. Web site: MVP Brizard guides France to second VNL gold . Volleyball World . 30 June 2024 . en . 30 June 2024.
5. Web site: Pareja . Marcos Menocal . Volleyball Nations League (VNL) to feature 18 teams from 2025 . 15 June 2024 . . 14 February 2024.
6. Web site: VNL 2024 Competition Formula . Volleyball World . 20 January 2024 . 20 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240120055438/https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/competition/formula . live.
7. 8 December 2023 . VNL 2024 To Take The Elite Of The Sport To Four Continents . . 14 December 2023 . 14 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231214104725/https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/vnl-2024-to-take-the-elite-of?id=101167 . live.
8. Web site: Men's Statistics – 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League . Volleyball World . 21 May 2024.

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