2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship statistics
Appearance
The final tournament was held in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018.[1]
Poland defended their world title, defeating the reigning Olympic champions Brazil in straight sets at a repeat of the 2014 final. United States won the 3rd place match, defeating Serbia in four sets.
Tournament statistics
[edit]Attendance
[edit]- Matches played : 94
- Attendance (first round) (played 60) : 190,213 (3,170 per match)
- Attendance (second round) (played 24) : 90,124 (3,755 per match)
- Attendance (third round) (played 6) : 61,361 (10,227 per match)
- Attendance (final round) (played 4) : 47,331 (11,833 per match)
- Total attendance on tournament : 389,029 (4,139 per match)
- Most attendance : 12,875 - Russia v. Italy, Forum di Assago, Milan on 22 September 2018.
- Fewest attendance : 230 - Cuba v. Puerto Rico, Palace of Culture and Sports, Varna on 17 September 2018.
Matches
[edit]- Most matches wins : 10 - Brazil, United States
- Fewest matches wins : 0 - Puerto Rico, China, Tunisia, Dominican Republic
- Most matches lost : 5 - Puerto Rico, China, Tunisia, Dominican Republic
- Fewest matches lost : 2 - Brazil, United States, Italy
- Most points played in match : 230 - Japan vs. Argentina 3 : 2 (116/114)
- Fewest points played in match : 116 - Puerto Rico vs. Poland 0 : 3 (41/75)
- Longest match played (duration) : 149 min. - Puerto Rico vs. Finland (2h,29m)
- Shortest match played (duration) : 72 min. - United States vs. Tunisia (1h,12m)
Sets
[edit]- Total sets (first round) : 226 (3.77 per match)
- Total sets (second round) : 91 (3.79 per match)
- Total sets (third round) : 22 (3.67 per match)
- Total sets (final round) : 15 (3.75 per match)
- Total sets scored : 353 (3.76 per match)
- Most sets played : 46 - Poland
- Most sets wins : 32 - Poland, United States
- Fewest sets wins : 1 - Dominican Republic
- Most sets lost : 21 - Serbia, Finland
- Fewest sets lost : 11 - Italy, Japan
- Highest set ratio : 2.462 - United States (32/13)
- Lowest set ratio : 0.067 - Dominican Republic (1/15)
Points
[edit]- Total points (first round) : 9,882 (165 per match)
- Total points (second round) : 3,979 (166 per match)
- Total points (third round) : 967 (161 per match)
- Total points (final round) : 694 (174 per match)
- Total points scored : 15,522 (165 per match)
- Most points wins : 1,068 - Poland
- Fewest points wins : 267 - Dominican Republic
- Most points lost : 991 - Serbia
- Fewest points lost : 398 - Cameroon, Dominican Republic
- Highest points ratio : 1.141 - Poland (1068/936)
- Lowest points ratio : 0.671 - Dominican Republic (267/398)
Squads
[edit]Coaches
[edit]- Oldest coach: Antonio Giacobbe Tunisia - 71 years and 212 days in the first game against Brazil.
- Youngest coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo Finland - 42 years and 206 days in the first game against Bulgaria.
- Teams with foreign coaches: 7 teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams (Dominican Republic and Iran) of coaches whose home countries (Venezuela and Montenegro) did not qualify for the 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship.
Players
[edit]- Appearance record: Luciano de Cecco Argentina, Nathan Roberts, Paul Carroll Australia, Teodor Salparov Bulgaria, Ahmed Abdelhay Egypt and Marko Podraščanin Serbia participated in the World Championship for the fourth time.
- Oldest player: At 39 years and 130 days, Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet Cameroon is the oldest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship finals.
- Youngest player: Marlon Yang Cuba is the youngest player at the age of 17 years and 111 days.
- Tallest player: At 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), Dmitry Muserskiy Russia is the tallest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship finals.
- Shortest player: At 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in), Taichiro Koga Japan is the shortest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship finals.
- 21 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Japan and Puerto Rico nominated at least one player who is free agent, but only China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Italy, Japan, Puerto Rico and Russia exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league. By contrast, Australia, Canada and Netherlands nominated only players from foreign leagues.
- The most players (51) are active in clubs based in Italy, the majority of them in the SuperLega. In total 15 of the 24 team squads have players who play in England.
- From the leagues of countries that did not qualify for the World Cup, the Germany Bundesliga have the strongest representation with 12 players.
Multiple World Championships
[edit]Final standing
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification or relegation |
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Poland | 12 | 9 | 3 | 28 | 32 | 14 | 2.286 | 1068 | 936 | 1.141 | Champions | |
Brazil | 12 | 10 | 2 | 27 | 31 | 13 | 2.385 | 1024 | 925 | 1.107 | Runners up | |
United States | 12 | 10 | 2 | 29 | 32 | 13 | 2.462 | 1044 | 927 | 1.126 | Third place | |
4 | Serbia | 12 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 24 | 21 | 1.143 | 1012 | 991 | 1.021 | Fourth place |
5 | Italy | 10 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 26 | 11 | 2.364 | 841 | 742 | 1.133 | Eliminated in third round |
6 | Russia | 10 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 14 | 1.643 | 850 | 759 | 1.120 | |
7 | France | 8 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 1.750 | 765 | 688 | 1.112 | Eliminated in second round |
8 | Netherlands | 8 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 1.067 | 692 | 661 | 1.047 | |
9 | Canada | 8 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 1.286 | 712 | 694 | 1.026 | |
10 | Belgium | 8 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 1.143 | 667 | 657 | 1.015 | |
11 | Bulgaria | 8 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 1.333 | 625 | 617 | 1.013 | |
12 | Slovenia | 8 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 1.063 | 722 | 716 | 1.008 | |
13 | Iran | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 0.875 | 674 | 664 | 1.015 | |
14 | Australia | 8 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 0.632 | 665 | 701 | 0.949 | |
15 | Argentina | 8 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 0.737 | 725 | 751 | 0.965 | |
16 | Finland | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 0.476 | 638 | 719 | 0.887 | |
17 | Japan | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 0.727 | 414 | 427 | 0.970 | Eliminated in first round |
18 | Cuba | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 0.462 | 392 | 436 | 0.899 | |
19 | Cameroon | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0.333 | 334 | 398 | 0.839 | |
20 | Egypt | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 0.308 | 368 | 426 | 0.864 | |
21 | Puerto Rico | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 0.200 | 331 | 435 | 0.761 | |
22 | China | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0.200 | 375 | 440 | 0.852 | |
23 | Tunisia | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0.133 | 317 | 414 | 0.766 | |
24 | Dominican Republic | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0.067 | 267 | 398 | 0.671 |
Source: WCH 2018 final standings
Statistics leaders
[edit]The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers at the completion of the tournament.[2] Only players whose teams advanced to the final round are taken in consideration.[citation needed]
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Awards
[edit]- Most valuable player
- Best setter
- Best outside spikers
- Best middle blockers
- Best opposite spiker
- Best libero
See also
[edit]- 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship statistics
- FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League statistics
- FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League statistics
- Volleyball records and statistics
- Major achievements in volleyball by nation
- List of Indoor Volleyball World Medalists
References
[edit]- ^ "ITALY, BULGARIA TO CO-HOST MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WORLDS IN 2018". foxsports. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ "Statistics". FIVB.
External links
[edit]- Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website
- 2018 Men's World Championship – official website
- Competition formula
- Teams
- History
- Honours
- Previous Edition