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2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship

2013 Men's U23 World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation  Brazil
Dates 6–13 October
Teams 12
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Champions  Brazil (1st title)
Tournament awards
MVP Brazil Ricardo Lucarelli Souza
Official website
FIVB
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The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship was held in Uberlândia, Brazil from 6 to 13 October 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament.

For this tournament, the first four sets were played over 21 points.

The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship will feature two countries per confederation plus the host Brazil and the highest country in the world rankings not already selected by their confederation, in this case Russia.

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 22 July 2013. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 1st.

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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