2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship


The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was the nineteenth edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for men's national teams under the age of 21, organized by the sport's world governing body, FIVB. The tournament was hosted by Czech Republic in the cities of Brno and Ceské Budejovice from 23 June to 2 July 2017. 16 teams participated.
Poland defeated Cuba in the final to capture their third title in the competition. Russia, which won the previously three editions of the tournament, won the bronze medal after defeating Brazil in the third place match. Jakub Kochanowski from Poland was elected the Most Valuable Player.

Qualification

The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.

Pools composition

First round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB U21 World Ranking as of January 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U21 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U21 World Ranking. The draw was held in Brno, Czech Republic on 31 May 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 35th.
Pool APool BPool CPool D
Iran

Second round

Squads

Venues

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. 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

First round

Qualified for the Final eight
Qualified for the 9th–16th places

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round

Qualified for the [|Semifinals]
Qualified for the [|5th–8th semifinals]
Qualified for the [|9th–12th semifinals]
Qualified for the [|13th–16th semifinals]

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam
4
5 Iran
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Awards