# 2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the third edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held at Jamsil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, between 28 and 31 July 2022.
Four teams made their first appearance in the men's Challenger Cup in this edition: the host South Korea, Australia, Qatar and Tunisia.
Cuba won the title, defeating Turkey in the final, and earned the right to participate in 2023 Nations League replacing Australia, the last placed challenger team after the 2022 edition. South Korea defeated Czech Republic in the 3rd place match.

## Qualification

A total of 8 teams qualified for the tournament.
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | Previous appearances | Previous appearances | Previous best performance |
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Total | First | Last | Previous best performance |
| Turkey | CEV | 2021 European Golden League champions | 20 June 2021 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | 4th place (2019) |
| Qatar | AVC | 1st World ranked team from AVC | 31 March 2022 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Tunisia | CAVB | 1st World ranked team from CAVB | 31 March 2022 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Chile | CSV | 1st World ranked team from CSV | 31 March 2022 | 2 | 2018 | 2019 | 5th place (2018) |
| Cuba | NORCECA | 1st World ranked team from NORCECA | 31 March 2022 | 2 | 2018 | 2019 | Runners-up (2019) |
| South Korea | AVC | Host country | 8 April 2022 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Czech Republic | CEV | 2022 European Golden League champions | 18 June 2022 | 1 | 2018 | 2018 | Runners-up (2018) |
| Australia | AVC | 2022 Nations League last placed challenger team | 10 July 2022 | 0 | None | None | None |

## Format

The tournament will compete in the knock-out format (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final), with the host country (South Korea) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team among the participating teams. The remaining seven teams are placed from 2nd to 8th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 10 July 2022. Rankings are shown in brackets except the host.
| Match | Top ranker | Bottom ranker |
| Quarterfinal 1 | South Korea (Hosts) | Australia (38) |
| Quarterfinal 2 | Cuba (13) | Chile (27) |
| Quarterfinal 3 | Tunisia (15) | Czech Republic (24) |
| Quarterfinal 4 | Turkey (17) | Qatar (21) |

## Rule changes

* Court switch at the end of the sets to be eliminated due to COVID-19 safety guidelines and for a better television broadcasts.
* Each team is allowed to call only one time-out during each set in the preliminary. The time-out lasts 30 seconds long.
* Only one technical time-out is made when the leading team reaches 12 points.

## Venue

* All matches
* Seoul, South Korea
* Jamsil Students' Gymnasium
* Capacity: 7,500

## Pool standing procedure

* Number of matches won
* Match points
* Sets ratio
* Points ratio
* Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–0 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

## Knockout stage

* All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final |
| 28 July – Seoul | 28 July – Seoul | | | |
| South Korea | 3 | | | |
| South Korea | 3 | 30 July – Seoul | 30 July – Seoul | | |
| Australia | 2 | 30 July – Seoul | 30 July – Seoul | |
| Australia | 2 | South Korea | 0 | |
| 29 July – Seoul | 29 July – Seoul | | South Korea | 0 | |
| 29 July – Seoul | 29 July – Seoul | Turkey | 3 | |
| Turkey | 3 | Turkey | 3 | |
| Turkey | 3 | | | | 31 July – Seoul | 31 July – Seoul |
| Qatar | 1 | | | | 31 July – Seoul | 31 July – Seoul |
| Qatar | 1 | | | | Turkey | 1 |
| 28 July – Seoul | 28 July – Seoul | | | | | Turkey | 1 |
| 28 July – Seoul | 28 July – Seoul | | | | Cuba | 3 |
| Cuba | 3 | | | | Cuba | 3 |
| Cuba | 3 | 30 July – Seoul | 30 July – Seoul | | | |
| Chile | 0 | 30 July – Seoul | 30 July – Seoul | | | |
| Chile | 0 | Cuba | 3 | | | |
| 29 July – Seoul | 29 July – Seoul | | Cuba | 3 | | | |
| 29 July – Seoul | 29 July – Seoul | Czech Republic | 0 | | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| Tunisia | 1 | Czech Republic | 0 | | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| Tunisia | 1 | | | | 31 July – Seoul | 31 July – Seoul |
| Czech Republic | 3 | | | | 31 July – Seoul | 31 July – Seoul |
| Czech Republic | 3 | | | | South Korea | 3 |
| | | | | | Czech Republic | 2 |

### Quarterfinals

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 28 Jul | 15:30 | Cuba | 3–0 | Chile | 25–20 | 25–19 | 25–19 | | | 75–58 | P2 Report |
| 28 Jul | 19:00 | South Korea | 3–2 | Australia | 23–25 | 25–23 | 25–18 | 22–25 | 15–13 | 110–104 | P2 Report |
| 29 Jul | 12:00 | Turkey | 3–1 | Qatar | 25–23 | 25–16 | 22–25 | 25–15 | | 97–79 | P2 Report |
| 29 Jul | 15:30 | Tunisia | 1–3 | Czech Republic | 16–25 | 25–17 | 26–28 | 16–25 | | 83–95 | P2 Report |

### Semifinals

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 30 Jul | 12:00 | Cuba | 3–0 | Czech Republic | 25–22 | 25–18 | 25–18 | | | 75–58 | P2 Report |
| 30 Jul | 15:30 | South Korea | 0–3 | Turkey | 24–26 | 21–25 | 22–25 | | | 67–76 | P2 Report |

### 3rd place match

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 31 Jul | 12:00 | South Korea | 3–2 | Czech Republic | 25–19 | 25–16 | 24–26 | 23–25 | 22–20 | 119–106 | P2 Report |

### Final

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 31 Jul | 15:45 | Turkey | 1–3 | Cuba | 17–25 | 25–23 | 20–25 | 20–25 | | 82–98 | P2 Report |

## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| | Cuba |
| | Turkey |
| | South Korea |
| 4 | Czech Republic |
| 5 | Australia |
| 6 | Tunisia |
| 7 | Qatar |
| 8 | Chile |
* Qualified for the 2023 Nations League
* 2022 Men's Challenger Cup champions
* Cuba First title
* 12–man Roster
* Osniel Melgarejo, Julio Cardenas, Michael Sánchez, Javier Concepción, Yonder García, Miguel Gutiérrez, Lyvan Taboada, Jesús Herrera, Adrián Goide, Roamy Alonso, Miguel Ángel López (c), Marlon Yant
* Head coach
* Nicolas Vives