| Competition: | Men's European Olympic Qualification Tournament |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Year: | 2016 |
| City: | Berlin |
| Dates: | 5–10 January |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | RUS |
| Title Number: | 3 |
| Second: | FRA |
| Third: | POL |
| Fourth: | GER |
| Mvp: |  Sergey Tetyukhin |
| Setter: |  Benjamin Toniutti |
| Outside Spikers: | Earvin N'Gapeth Denys Kaliberda |
| Middle Blockers: | Marcus Böhme Mateusz Bieniek |
| Opposite Spiker: | Maxim Mikhaylov |
| Libero: | Jenia Grebennikov |
| Matches: | 16 |
| Website: | CEV |
| Last: | Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification |
| Next: | Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification |
See main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
The European Qualification Tournament for the 2016 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held in Berlin, Germany from 5 to 10 January 2016.[1] Russia won the tournament by beating France 3–1, and qualified for the Summer Olympics. Sergey Tetyukhin was selected the most valuable player.
The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015[2] which had not yet qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament.[3] [4] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 4th.
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking. The pools were confirmed on 23 October 2015.[5]
See main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification squads.
| All matches | |
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| Berlin, Germany | |
| Max-Schmeling-Halle | |
| Capacity: 8,500 | |
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
| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the Semifinals |
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| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
| width=10px bgcolor=#dfefff | Qualified for the 2016 1st World Olympic Qualification Tournament |
Denys Kaliberda