The 2023 Men's European Volleyball Championship is the 33rd edition of the Men's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, CEV. For the third time, the EuroVolley will be held in four countries: Italy, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Israel.The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the CEV representative, except Italy who had already qualified as the defending world champions.

Host selection
In May 2022, three countries — Bulgaria, Italy and North Macedonia — confirmed their co-hosting of the men's EuroVolley 2023 edition. Ukraine was also supposed to be one of the hosts of EuroVolley but because of the ongoing war in the country they lost the right to host the tournament. The only arena that was suitable for the championships was indoor arena Yunist in Zaporizhzhia.

On 5 October 2022, CEV announced that Israel would be the new co-host of the tournament replacing Ukraine. In July 2023, CEV made the unprecedented and controversial move of donating €1,500,000 to ensure the smooth running of the EuroVolley 2023 Group D stages in Israel amid rumours that Israel might withdraw from its hosting duties due to "financial difficulties". This is in contrast to the other host nations who reportedly spent between €600,000 and €2,000,000 for the organization of the championship.

On 9 February 2023, CEV announced that Rome will host semifinals and medal matches, while Bologna will be hosting opening match between Belgium and Italy.

Qualification

Pools composition
The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:
 The 4 Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. Italy in Pool A, Bulgaria in Pool B, North Macedoniain Pool C and Israel in Pool D.
 The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools,
 The organizers could select one team to join their pools, as a result, Switzerland joined Italy in Pool A, Finland joined Bulgaria in Pool B, Montenegro joined North Macedonia in Pool C and Romania joined Israel in Pool D.
 According to the CEV National Team rankings as of 01 January 2022, the 16 remaining teams are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.

Draw
The drawing of lots was held on 16 November 2022 in Naples, Italy.

Venues

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 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, 3 and 4 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 time are local.
The top four teams in each pool will qualify for the final round.

Pool A
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round
All times are local.

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

See also
2023 Women's European Volleyball Championship

References

External links

Official website
CEV website

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