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2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

2013 Men's U21 World Championship
2013 FIVB Men's Junior World Championship.jpg
Tournament details
Host nation  Turkey
Dates 22 August–1 September
Teams 20
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
Champions  Russia (9th title)
Tournament awards
MVP Russia Victor Poletaev
Official website
FIVB

The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was held in Turkey for ten days, from 22 August to 1 September 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament that features 20 teams.

The 20 teams will be divided into four pools of five teams each and will play a round-robin tournament. The bottom-ranked team of each pool will play classification matches for 17th-20th place in a round-robin system.

The other 16 teams progress to the Eight Finals which consists of a playoff (1st of Pool A against 4th of Pool B etc.). The winners of the playoff matches will advance to the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals to be classified from 1st to 8th while the losers of playoff match will play classification matches, with a similar quarterfinals, semifinals and finals system, to be classified from 9th to 16th.

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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