| Event: | Men's volleyball |
| Games: | 2008 Summer |
| Venue: | Capital Indoor Stadium and Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium |
| Date: | 10–24 August |
| Competitors: | 144 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Gold: | (3rd title) |
| Prev: | 2004 |
| Next: | 2012 |
The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Beijing, China from 10 to 24 August 2008.[1]
The twelve competing teams were split equally into two pools of six teams. Each team played all other teams in their pool with the winning team gaining 2 points and the losing side 1 point. The top four teams from each pool progressed through to the quarterfinals. The rest of the tournament was a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match held between the two semifinal losers.
A total of 38 matches were played: 15 in each group, 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals, 1 bronze medal match, and 1 gold medal match.
| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Sun 10 | Mon 11 | Tue 12 | Wed 13 | Thu 14 | Fri 15 | Sat 16 | Sun 17 | Mon 18 | Tue 19 | Wed 20 | Thu 21 | Fri 22 | Sat 23 | Sun 24 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||
See main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
| width=25% | Means of qualification! | width=27% | Date! | width=20% | Host! | width=6% | Vacancies! | width=22% | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Country | 13 July 2001 |  Moscow | 1 | ||||||
| 2007 World Cup | 18 November – 2 December 2007 | 3 | |||||||
| African Qualifier | 3–9 February 2008 | Durban | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualifier | 7–13 January 2008 |  İzmir | 1 | ||||||
| North American Qualifier | 6–11 January 2008 | Caguas | 1 | ||||||
| South American Qualifier | 3–7 January 2008 |  Formosa | 1 | ||||||
| 1st World Qualifier | 23–25 May 2008 | Düsseldorf | 1 | ||||||
| 2nd World Qualifier | 30 May – 1 June 2008 | Espinho | 1 | ||||||
| 3rd World Qualifier | 31 May – 8 June 2008 |  Tokyo | 1 | ||||||
| Asian Qualifier | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 12 | ||||||||
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 3 December 2007.[2] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 21st.
| width=50% | Pool A | width=50% | Pool B |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | ||
| (3) | (2) | ||
| (4) | (5) | ||
| (10) | (8) | ||
| (12) | (14) | ||
| (20) | (19) |
See main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
| width=50% | Main venue | width=50% | Sub venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing, China | Beijing, China | ||
| Capital Indoor Stadium | Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium | ||
| Capacity: 17,345 | Capacity: 5,000 | ||
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 9 | |||
| 11 | |||
| 12–man roster | |
| Lloy Ball, Sean Rooney, David Lee, Rich Lambourne (L), Reid Priddy, Ryan Millar, Riley Salmon, Tom Hoff (c), Clay Stanley, Kevin Hansen, Gabe Gardner, Scott Touzinsky | |
| Head coach | |
| Hugh McCutcheon |
