Competition: | World League |
Continent: | World |
Year: | 2017 |
Size: | 250px |
City: | Curitiba (Group 1 Final) |
Dates: | 2 June – 8 July |
Teams: | 36 |
Confederations: | 5 |
Venues: | 28 |
Cities: | 28 |
Champions: | FRA |
Title Number: | 2 |
Second: | BRA |
Third: | CAN |
Fourth: | USA |
Mvp: | Earvin N'Gapeth |
Outside Spikers: | Ricardo Lucarelli Earvin N'Gapeth |
Opposite Spiker: | Wallace de Souza |
Middle Blockers: | Graham Vigrass Kévin Le Roux |
Setter: | Benjamin Toniutti |
Libero: | Blair Bann |
Matches: | 161 |
Website: | FIVB World League |
Last: | 2016 FIVB Volleyball World League |
Next: | 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations 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.[1] The Group 1 Final Round was held in Curitiba, Brazil.[2]
In front of a crowd of 23,149 fans, France lifted the FIVB Volleyball World League trophy for the second time in their history, prevailing in an epic battle over hosts Brazil 3–2.[3] This marked the fifth time in the last seven editions that Brazil reached the final without successfully winning the gold medal. Canada wrapped up their best ever World League campaign by seizing the bronze medal (their first medal at an international FIVB event) after coming from behind for a 3–1 win over the United States.[4] Earvin N'Gapeth was elected the Most Valuable Player for the second time, after also being the MVP in 2015.[5] [6]
Slovenia defeated Japan in the Group 2 finals in Gold Coast, Australia to achieve their second straight group title since their debut last year (the team had previously won Group 3 in 2016).[7] [8]
Moreover, Estonia finished atop Group 3 in their first ever World League participation after a convincing 3–0 win over Spain in the final match in León, Mexico.[9]
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 (in the 1999 FIVB Volleyball World League match between Canada and Brazil, and in the 2016 World Olympic Qualifying Tournament match between France and Australia).[10]
width=16% | Africa | width=16% | Asia and Oceania | width=36% | Europe | width=16% | North America | width=16% | South America |
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1 Teams making their debuts.
The pools were announced on 13 September 2016.
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width=33% | Pool A1 Italy | width=33% | Pool B1 Serbia | width=33% | Pool C1 Russia |
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Pool D1 Iran | Pool E1 Bulgaria | Pool F1 France | |||
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Pool G1 Argentina | Pool H1 Poland | Pool I1 Belgium | |||
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width=33% | Pool A2 South Korea | width=33% | Pool B2 Slovakia | width=33% | Pool C2 Turkey |
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Pool D2 Finland | Pool E2 Japan | Pool F2 Czech Republic | |||
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Pool G2 China | Pool H2 Egypt | Pool I2 Netherlands | |||
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width=17% | Pool A3 Spain | width=17% | Pool B3 Montenegro | width=17% | Pool C3 Germany |
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width=17% | Pool D3 Estonia | width=17% | Pool E3 Tunisia | width=17% | Pool F3 Austria |
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Group 1 Brazil | |||
Pool J1 Pool K1 | |||
Week 4 | Week 3 | ||
width=50% | Group 2 Australia | width=50% | Group 3 Mexico |
● | Intercontinental round | ● | Final round |
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 | ||
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Group 1 | 18 matches | 18 matches | 18 matches | 10 matches | ||
Group 2 | 18 matches | 18 matches | 18 matches | 4 matches | ||
Group 3 | 18 matches | 18 matches | 4 matches |
See main article: 2017 FIVB Volleyball World League squads.
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
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14-man Roster for Group 1 Final Round | |
Grebennikov, Clévenot, Toniutti (c), Lyneel, N'Gapeth, Le Roux, Brizard, Boyer, Le Goff, Bultor, Quesque, T. Rossard, N. Rossard, Chinenyeze | |
Head coach | |
L. Tillie |
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.[13] [14] [15]
Best scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | Points | width=250 | Name | width=50 | Points | width=250 | Name | width=50 | Points |
align=center | 1 | align=center | 165 | align=center | 176 | align=center | 124 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 147 | align=center | 173 | align=center | 119 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 146 | align=center | 164 | align=center | 106 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 133 | align=center | 152 | align=center | 104 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 129 | align=center | 142 | align=center | 101 |
Best spikers determined by successful spikes in percentage.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 53.94 | align=center | 55.34 | align=center | 58.87 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 53.15 | align=center | 54.90 | align=center | 58.75 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 52.86 | align=center | 54.38 | align=center | 56.88 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 50.64 | align=center | 54.32 | align=center | 56.85 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 50.43 | align=center | 53.79 | align=center | 56.35 |
Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 0.74 | align=center | 0.77 | align=center | 0.83 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 0.71 | align=center | 0.77 | align=center | 0.72 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 0.66 | align=center | 0.63 | align=center | 0.64 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 0.59 | align=center | 0.63 | align=center | 0.59 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 0.56 | align=center | 0.56 | align=center | 0.58 |
Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 0.52 | align=center | 0.49 | align=center | 0.55 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 0.43 | align=center | 0.43 | align=center | 0.41 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 0.39 | align=center | 0.37 | align=center | 0.38 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 0.39 | align=center | 0.36 | align=center | 0.34 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 0.39 | align=center | 0.34 | align=center | 0.34 |
Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 6.58 | align=center | 8.43 | align=center | 9.00 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 5.09 | align=center | 6.92 | align=center | 8.59 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 5.06 | align=center | 6.14 | align=center | 8.17 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 4.44 | align=center | 5.19 | align=center | 6.14 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 3.27 | align=center | 5.14 | align=center | 6.08 |
Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 2.14 | align=center | 1.93 | align=center | |||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 1.88 | align=center | 1.91 | align=center | |||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 1.81 | align=center | 1.75 | align=center | |||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 1.65 | align=center | 1.44 | align=center | |||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 1.64 | align=center | 1.39 | align=center |
Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | |||||||||||
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width=30 | Rank | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | width=250 | Name | width=50 | |||
align=center | 1 | align=center | 65.83 | align=center | 64.93 | align=center | 62.22 | ||||||
align=center | 2 | align=center | 53.25 | align=center | 54.97 | align=center | 61.95 | ||||||
align=center | 3 | align=center | 47.25 | align=center | 53.33 | align=center | 52.41 | ||||||
align=center | 4 | align=center | 46.78 | align=center | 52.41 | align=center | 52.38 | ||||||
align=center | 5 | align=center | 45.88 | align=center | 51.23 | align=center | 48.65 |