2017 FIVB Volleyball World League


The 2017 FIVB Volleyball World League was the 28th edition of the annual men's international volleyball tournament played by 36 teams between 2 June and 8 July. The Group [|1] Final Round was held in Curitiba, Brazil.
In front of a crowd of 23,149 fans, France lifted the FIVB Volleyball World League trophy for the second time of their history, prevailing on an epic battle over hosts Brazil 3–2. This marked the fifth time in the last seven editions with Brazil reaching the final without successfully winning the gold medal. Canada wrapped up their best ever World League campaign by seizing the bronze medal after coming from behind for a 3–1 win over United States. Earvin N'Gapeth was elected the Most Valuable Player for the second time, after also being the MVP in 2015.
Slovenia defeated Japan in the Group 2 finals in Gold Coast, Australia to achieve their second straight group title since their debut last year.
Moreover, Estonia finished atop of Group 3 at their first ever World League participation after a convincing 3–0 win over Spain in the final match in León, Mexico.
On 11 June 2017, the new one-set-score world record for national teams was established in the Group 3 intercontinental round match between Qatar and Venezuela. They spent 49 minutes in a 45–43 third set that was won by Qatar. The previous highest set score was 44–42, which had happened twice.

Qualification

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Format

Intercontinental round

The pools were announced on 13 September 2016.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Final round

Competition schedule

Week 1
2–4 Jun		Week 2
8–11 Jun		Week 3
15–18 Jun		Week 4
24–25 Jun		Week 6
4–8 Jul
Group 118 matches18 matches18 matches10 matches
Group 218 matches18 matches18 matches4 matches
Group 318 matches18 matches4 matches

Squads

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

Intercontinental round

Group 1

Ranking

Week 1

Pool A1
Pool D1
Pool G1

Ranking

Week 1

Pool A2
Pool D2
Pool G2

Ranking

Week 1

Pool A3
Pool D3

Group 3

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Group 2

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Group 1

Pool J1
Pool K1

Final four (Week 6)

Semifinals
3rd place match
Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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Awards

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, recept, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill by group plus top scorers as of 24 June 2017.

Best scorers

Best scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.

Best spikers

Best spikers determined by successful spikes in percentage.

Best blockers

Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

Best servers

Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

Best setters

Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

Best diggers

Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

Best receivers

Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.