2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship

2017 Men's Club World Championship

Tournament details
Host nation	Poland
Dates	12–17 December
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Champions	Zenit Kazan (1st title)
Tournament awards
MVP	Osmany Juantorena (LUB)
Official website
FIVB Men's Club World Championship

The 2017 FIVB Men's Club World Championship was the 13th edition of the tournament. It was held in Poland for the first time from 12 to 17 December 2017. Eight teams competed in the tournament, including two wild cards.

Russia's Zenit Kazan defeated Italy's Cucine Lube Civitanova in the final and won the title for the first time. Brazil's Sada Cruzeiro claimed the bronze medal by defeating Poland's PGE Skra Bełchatów in the 3rd place match. Osmany Juantorena from Lube was elected the Most Valuable Player.

Qualification

Team (Confederation)	Qualified as
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle (CEV)	Hosts (2017 Polish Champions)
Sarmayeh Bank Tehran (AVC)	2016 Asian Champions
Sada Cruzeiro (CSV)	2017 South American Champions
Zenit Kazan (CEV)	2017 European Champions
Cucine Lube Civitanova (CEV)	2017 National Champions from the best ranked countries, not yet qualified, of the top 2 confederations in the FIVB World Ranking as of 31 December 2016
Personal Bolívar (CSV)
PGE Skra Bełchatów (CEV)	Wild Card
Shanghai Golden Age (AVC)

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	PGE Skra Bełchatów
Cucine Lube Civitanova	Zenit Kazan
Sada Cruzeiro	Personal Bolívar
Sarmayeh Bank Tehran	Shanghai Golden Age

Squads

Main article: 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads

Venues

Pool A	Pool B	Final round	Opole Łódź Kraków class=notpageimage| Host cities in Poland
Opole, Poland	Łódź, Poland	Kraków, Poland
Hala Okrąglak	Atlas Arena	Tauron Arena Kraków
Capacity: 3,500	Capacity: 12,100	Capacity: 14,752
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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

Preliminary round

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Dec	17:30	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	3–2	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran	19–25	20–25	25–16	31–29	17–15	112–110	P2 P3
12 Dec	20:50	Sada Cruzeiro	0–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	21–25	16–25	18–25			55–75	P2 P3
13 Dec	17:30	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	2–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	25–23	21–25	25–23	21–25	16–18	108–114	P2 P3
13 Dec	20:50	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran	0–3	Sada Cruzeiro	23–25	20–25	22–25			65–75	P2 P3
14 Dec	17:30	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	0–3	Sada Cruzeiro	13–25	30–32	20–25			63–82	P2 P3
14 Dec	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran	26–24	25–17	25–23			76–64	P2 P3

Pool B

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Dec	17:30	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Personal Bolívar	25–20	25–19	25–17			75–56	P2 P3
12 Dec	20:30	PGE Skra Bełchatów	3–0	Shanghai Golden Age	25–18	25–19	25–21			75–58	P2 P3
13 Dec	17:30	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Shanghai Golden Age	25–15	25–16	25–21			75–52	P2 P3
13 Dec	20:30	PGE Skra Bełchatów	3–1	Personal Bolívar	23–25	25–15	25–21	25–19		98–80	P2 P3
14 Dec	17:30	Shanghai Golden Age	3–2	Personal Bolívar	22–25	25–20	23–25	25–18	15–13	110–101	P2 P3
14 Dec	20:30	PGE Skra Bełchatów	0–3	Zenit Kazan	27–29	20–25	16–25			63–79	P2 P3

Final round

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

	Semifinals				Final
	16 December
	Civitanova	3
					17 December
	Bełchatów	0
					Civitanova	0
	16 December
					Kazan	3
	Sada	0
	Kazan	3
					3rd place match
					17 December
					Bełchatów	0
					Sada	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
16 Dec	17:30	Sada Cruzeiro	0–3	Zenit Kazan	23–25	19–25	18–25			60–75	P2 P3
16 Dec	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	PGE Skra Bełchatów	25–23	25–23	25–23			75–69	P2 P3

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
17 Dec	17:30	PGE Skra Bełchatów	0–3	Sada Cruzeiro	19–25	18–25	13–25			50–75	P2 P3

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
17 Dec	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	0–3	Zenit Kazan	25–27	22–25	22–25			69–77	P2 P3

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Zenit Kazan
	Cucine Lube Civitanova
	Sada Cruzeiro
4	PGE Skra Bełchatów
5	Shanghai Golden Age
	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
7	Personal Bolívar
	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran

2017 Men's Club World Champions
Zenit Kazan 1st title

14–man Roster

Anderson, Volvich, L. Alekno, Yudin, Panteleymonenko, Alekseev, León, Kononov, Krotkov, Butko (c), Samoylenko, Gutsalyuk, Verbov, Mikhaylov

Head Coach

V. Alekno

Awards

• Most Valuable Player

Osmany Juantorena (Cucine Lube Civitanova)

• Best Setter

Aleksandr Butko (Zenit Kazan)

• Best Outside Spikers

Wilfredo León (Zenit Kazan)

Yoandy Leal (Sada Cruzeiro)

• Best Middle Blockers

Aleksey Samoylenko (Zenit Kazan)

Robertlandy Simón (Sada Cruzeiro)

• Best Opposite Spiker

Tsvetan Sokolov (Cucine Lube Civitanova)

• Best Libero

Jenia Grebennikov (Cucine Lube Civitanova)

See also

• 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship

External links

• Official website
• Final Standing
• Awards
• Formula
• Statistics