2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship statistics

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

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Attendance

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  • 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

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Sets

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Coaches

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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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
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

Statistics leaders

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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]

Awards

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "ITALY, BULGARIA TO CO-HOST MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WORLDS IN 2018". foxsports. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Statistics". FIVB.
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