Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification explained

Competition:Men's European Olympic Qualification Tournament
Continent:Europe
Year:2020
City:Berlin
Dates:5–10 January
Teams:8
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:FRA
Title Number:1
Second:GER
Mvp: Jean Patry
Setter: Lukas Kampa
Outside Spikers: Denys Kaliberda
Earvin N'Gapeth
Middle Blockers: Viktor Yosifov
Nicolas Le Goff
Opposite Spiker: Jean Patry
Libero: Jenia Grebennikov
Matches:15
Website:FIVB
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The European Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a volleyball tournament for men's national teams held in Berlin, Germany from 5 to 10 January 2020. Eight teams played in the tournament and the winners France qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Qualification

The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019[2] which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked tenth.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their CEV European Ranking as of 30 September 2019. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking.

Venue

All matches
Berlin, Germany
Max-Schmeling-Halle
Capacity: 8,500

Pool standing procedure

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

Preliminary round

Pool B

Final round

Semifinals

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Final

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Final standing

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1
2
3
5
7
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Qualifying team for Summer Olympics

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Summer Olympics
4 (1988, 1992, 2004, 2016)

Awards

Jean Patry

Lukas Kampa

Denys Kaliberda

Earvin N'Gapeth

Viktor Yosifov

Nicolas Le Goff

Jean Patry

Jenia Grebennikov

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Germany and Berlin to host men's European Olympic qualifier! . 29 August 2019 . CEV.
  2. Web site: CEV European Ranking List - Men (as per 30.09.2019) . 30 September 2019 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20191016084223/https://www.cev.eu/Rankings/Men.aspx . 16 October 2019.