2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. It was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3 to 7 July 2019.
The winners Slovenia earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Portugal, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition and the title holder.
Qualification
Squads
Pools composition
Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Not more than two teams from the same Continental Confederation can go into a same pool. In case the third team from the same Continental Confederation is placed in the same pool as per the World Ranking, the third team will move to the other pool. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 17th.Pool A | Pool B |
Venue
- Arena Stožice, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pool standing procedure
- Number of matches won
- Match points
- Sets ratio
- Points ratio
- Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Preliminary round
- All times are Central European Summer Time.
Qualified for the [|Semifinals] |
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
- All times are Central European Summer Time.
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Rank | Team |
4 | |
5 | |
6 |