# 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship statistics

The final tournament was held in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018.
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
### Attendance

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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
### Coaches

* 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

* 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

| Name | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | / 2018 | Total |
| Luciano de Cecco | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Nathan Roberts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Paul Carroll | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Teodor Salparov | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Ahmed Abdelhay | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Marko Podraščanin | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 4 |
| Facundo Conte | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Pablo Crer | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Travis Passier | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Bruno Rezende | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Lucas Saatkamp | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Nikolay Penchev | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Svetoslav Gotsev | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Viktor Yosifov | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Alain Fossi Kamto | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Nathan Wounembaina | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Sem Dolegombai | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| John Gordon Perrin | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Earvin N'Gapeth | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Kévin Le Roux | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Mohammad Mousavi | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Saeid Marouf | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Ivan Zaytsev | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Abdallah Abdalsalam | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Mohamed Badawy | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Rashad Atia | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Michał Kubiak | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Piotr Nowakowski | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Ángel Pérez | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Aleksey Verbov | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Dmitry Muserskiy | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Sergey Grankin | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Yury Berezhko | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Nemanja Petrić | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Nikola Rosić | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Ahmed Kadhi | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Amen Allah Hmissi | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | 3 |
| Anouer Taouerghi | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Hamza Nagga | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Nabil Miladi | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Maxwell Holt | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3 |
| Alexis González | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| José Luis González | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Martín Ramos | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Sebastián Solé | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Harrison Peacock | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Luke Perry | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Luke Smith | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Nehemiah Mote | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Bram Van Den Dries | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Hendrik Tuerlinckx | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Kevin Klinkenberg | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Lowie Stuer | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Matthias Valkiers | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Pieter Coolman | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Sam Deroo | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Simon Van De Voorde | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Éder Carbonera | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Luiz Felipe Fonteles | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Maurício Souza | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Wallace de Souza | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Georgi Seganov | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Miroslav Gradinarov | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Nikolay Nikolov | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Teodor Todorov | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Todor Skrimov | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Valentin Bratoev | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Ahmed Awal Mbutngam | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| David Feughouo | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Hervé Kofane Boyomo | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Jean Pierre Ndongo | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Yvan Bitjaa | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Graham Vigrass | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Nicholas Hoag | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Steven Marshall | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| TJ Sanders | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Chen Longhai | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Ji Daoshuai | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Zhang Chen | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Liván Osoria | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Abou Abd Elahim | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Hossam Abdalla | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Mohamed Thakil | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Eemi Tervaportti | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Lauri Kerminen | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Tommi Siirilä | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Mikko Esko | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Urpo Sivula | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Benjamin Toniutti | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Jenia Grebennikov | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Jonas Aguenier | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Kévin Tillie | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Nicolas Le Goff | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Milad Ebadipour | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Amir Ghafour | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Farhad Ghaemi | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Saman Faezi | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Filippo Lanza | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Michele Baranowicz | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Salvatore Rossini | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Simone Anzani | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Tatsuya Fukuzawa | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Dawid Konarski | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Fabian Drzyzga | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Grzegorz Łomacz | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Bartosz Kurek | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Paweł Zatorski | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Dennis Del Valle | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Edgardo Goás | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Ezequiel Cruz | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Maurice Torres | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Artem Volvich | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Maxim Mikhaylov | | ✔ | | ✔ | 2 |
| Aleksandar Atanasijević | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Marko Ivović | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Neven Majstorović | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Srećko Lisinac | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Uroš Kovačević | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Elyes Karamosli | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| David Smith | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Kawika Shoji | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Matt Anderson | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Micah Christenson | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |
| Taylor Sander | | | ✔ | ✔ | 2 |

## Final standing

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification or relegation |
| | 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 | Eliminated in third round |
| 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 | Eliminated in second round |
| 9 | Canada | 8 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 1.286 | 712 | 694 | 1.026 | Eliminated in second round |
| 10 | Belgium | 8 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 1.143 | 667 | 657 | 1.015 | Eliminated in second round |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 8 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 1.333 | 625 | 617 | 1.013 | Eliminated in second round |
| 12 | Slovenia | 8 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 1.063 | 722 | 716 | 1.008 | Eliminated in second round |
| 13 | Iran | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 0.875 | 674 | 664 | 1.015 | Eliminated in second round |
| 14 | Australia | 8 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 0.632 | 665 | 701 | 0.949 | Eliminated in second round |
| 15 | Argentina | 8 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 0.737 | 725 | 751 | 0.965 | Eliminated in second round |
| 16 | Finland | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 0.476 | 638 | 719 | 0.887 | Eliminated in second round |
| 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 | Eliminated in first round |
| 19 | Cameroon | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0.333 | 334 | 398 | 0.839 | Eliminated in first round |
| 20 | Egypt | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 0.308 | 368 | 426 | 0.864 | Eliminated in first round |
| 21 | Puerto Rico | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 0.200 | 331 | 435 | 0.761 | Eliminated in first round |
| 22 | China | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0.200 | 375 | 440 | 0.852 | Eliminated in first round |
| 23 | Tunisia | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0.133 | 317 | 414 | 0.766 | Eliminated in first round |
| 24 | Dominican Republic | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0.067 | 267 | 398 | 0.671 | Eliminated in first round |

## Statistics leaders

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. Only players whose teams advanced to the final round are taken in consideration.
Best Scorers :
| | Player | Spikes | Blocks | Serves | Total |
| 1 | Bartosz Kurek | 133 | 22 | 16 | 171 |
| 2 | Matt Anderson | 138 | 9 | 16 | 163 |
| 3 | Wallace de Souza | 145 | 6 | 6 | 157 |
| 4 | Aaron Russell | 135 | 10 | 8 | 153 |
| 5 | Douglas Souza | 129 | 10 | 11 | 150 |
Best Spikers :
| | Player | Spikes | Faults | Shots | Total | % |
| 1 | Douglas Souza | 129 | 28 | 71 | 228 | 56.58 |
| 2 | Matthew Anderson | 138 | 47 | 59 | 244 | 56.56 |
| 3 | Taylor Sander | 107 | 34 | 49 | 190 | 56.32 |
| 4 | Uroš Kovačević | 104 | 31 | 59 | 194 | 53.61 |
| 5 | Wallace de Souza | 145 | 43 | 83 | 271 | 53.51 |
Best Blockers :
| | Player | Blocks | Faults | Rebounds | Total | Avg |
| 1 | Bartosz Kurek | 22 | 16 | 22 | 60 | 0.48 |
| 2 | Michał Kubiak | 21 | 17 | 15 | 53 | 0.46 |
| 3 | Piotr Nowakowski | 19 | 15 | 46 | 80 | 0.41 |
| 4 | Srećko Lisinac | 18 | 37 | 39 | 94 | 0.40 |
| 5 | Maxwell Holt | 17 | 37 | 42 | 96 | 0.38 |
Best Servers :
| | Player | Aces | Faults | Hits | Total | Avg |
| 1 | Marko Ivović | 16 | 33 | 90 | 139 | 0.36 |
| 2 | Matt Anderson | 16 | 37 | 99 | 152 | 0.36 |
| 3 | Bartosz Kurek | 16 | 35 | 59 | 110 | 0.35 |
| 4 | Taylor Sander | 15 | 41 | 90 | 146 | 0.33 |
| 5 | Maxwell Holt | 15 | 28 | 63 | 106 | 0.33 |
Best Setters :
| | Player | Running | Faults | Still | Total | Avg |
| 1 | Micah Christenson | 293 | 8 | 473 | 774 | 6.51 |
| 2 | Nikola Jovović | 239 | 4 | 563 | 806 | 5.31 |
| 3 | Bruno Rezende | 190 | 2 | 422 | 614 | 4.32 |
| 4 | William Arjona | 156 | 1 | 189 | 246 | 1.27 |
| 5 | Fabian Drzyzga | 52 | 3 | 588 | 643 | 1.12 |
Best Diggers :
| | Player | Digs | Faults | Receptions | Total | Avg |
| 1 | Erik Shoji | 74 | 5 | 33 | 112 | 1.64 |
| 2 | Paweł Zatorski | 69 | 10 | 42 | 121 | 1.50 |
| 3 | Thales Hoss | 60 | 7 | 26 | 93 | 1.36 |
| 4 | Micah Christenson | 48 | 5 | 25 | 78 | 1.07 |
| 5 | Bruno Rezende | 46 | 7 | 22 | 75 | 1.05 |
Best Receivers :
| | Player | Excellents | Faults | Serve | Total | % |
| 1 | Taylor Sander | 82 | 10 | 115 | 207 | 34.78 |
| 2 | Paweł Zatorski | 81 | 11 | 127 | 219 | 31.96 |
| 3 | Douglas Souza | 96 | 19 | 167 | 292 | 27.30 |
| 4 | Marko Ivović | 78 | 18 | 146 | 242 | 24.79 |
| 5 | Michał Kubiak | 73 | 18 | 133 | 224 | 24.55 |

## Awards

* Most valuable player
    Bartosz Kurek
* Best setter
    Micah Christenson
* Best outside spikers
    Michał Kubiak
    Douglas Souza
* Best middle blockers
    Lucas Saatkamp
    Piotr Nowakowski
* Best opposite spiker
    Matt Anderson
* Best libero
    Paweł Zatorski