2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 19 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Riffa, Bahrain from 18 to 27 August 2017. 20 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament.
Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999.
Iran won its second title in the competition, defeating Russia in the final. Japan defeated South Korea for the bronze medal. Amirhossein Esfandiar from Iran was elected the MVP.
Qualification
The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.
Pools composition
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U19 World Ranking as of January 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U19 World Ranking. The twelve remaining teams were drawn in next three rows under the condition that there were not too much country in the same confederation were drawn in the same pool. The draw was held in Manama, Bahrain on 20 May 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 38th.
Draw
Squads
Venues
Isa Sports City Hall C, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool A, B and Final round
Isa Sports City Hall B, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool C, D and Final round
Pool standing procedure
Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
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
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Final round
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
17th–20th places
Final sixteen
Round of 16
9th–16th quarterfinals
Quarterfinals
13th–16th semifinals
9th–12th semifinals
5th–8th semifinals
Semifinals
15th place match
13th place match
11th place match
9th place match
7th place match
5th place match
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Awards
Most valuable player
Amirhossein Esfandiar
Best setter
Shunsuke Nakamura
Best outside spikers
Amirhossein Esfandiar
Pavel Tetyukhin
Best middle blockers
Artem Melnikov
Amir Hossein Toukhteh
Best opposite spiker
Im Dong-hyeok
Best libero
Kenta Ichikawa
See also
2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship
References
External links
Official website
Final Standing
Awards
Statistics
FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
International volleyball competitions hosted by Bahrain
2017 in Bahraini sport
FIVB Volleyball