The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League will be the fifth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League.
The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League will be the fifth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League. It is an annual men’s international volleyball tournament. The competition will be held during the months of June and July. The final round will take place in Ergo Arena, Gdańsk, Poland. Although the entire format remains the same along with the final roster of the countries taking part. However, there are some minor changes to the final list of participants. Following the results of the 2022 Nations League and 2022 Challenger Cup, Australia were replaced by debutants Cuba in this edition.
Thursday will see Brazil lock horns against Germany. Brazil is currently ranked third while Germany is placed in the seventeenth position. Brazil and Germany last met in last year’s FIVB Nations League. In the last encounter, the Brazilians destroyed the German defences. Brazil won that match in sets of 3-1. The Germans will look to settle the score with a win. The South Americans on the other hand will go for the win and continue their ascent to become the world no. 1 again.
The format of the play is the same as the previous edition. According to that, 16 men’s teams will compete in pools of 8 during the pool phase. Each team plays 12 matches during the pool stage. Eight teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition. The finals will have these 8 teams move directly to the knockout stage. The knockout phase will then comprise 8 matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches.
The first-ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth-ranked team, the second-ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh-ranked team, the third-ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth-ranked team, the fourth-ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth-ranked team. The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation does not finish in the top eight in the preliminary round, they will replace the eighth-place team and play as the eighth seed.
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| Thursday Games | Timings (all time in IST) |
| USA vs Netherlands | 2:00 am |
| Brazil vs Germany | 5:30 am |
| Slovenia vs Bulgaria | 8:30 am |
| Serbia vs China | 11:30 am |
| Poland vs Iran | 2:30 pm |
| Netherlands vs Cuba | 8:30 pm |
Wednesday featured four games Italy and Argentina, Canada and Cuba, Slovenia and Serbia and Poland and France going head to head against each other in the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League Round 1. In the first game, the Argentinians came out on top at the back of a dominant performance against the Italians. Argentina won against Italy in a dominant game with a scoreline of 25-22, 25-23 and 23-18. This ensured that Argentina take the set 3-0. In the second game, Canada went toe to toe against the Cubans. Canada won the game with a scoreline of 25-21, 26-28, 25-21, 22-25 and 15- 13 (3-2). In the third game, Slovenia won against Serbia 3-1. The final scoreline was 31-29, 19-25, 25-20 and 25-21.
The 2023 Volleyball Men’s Nations League will commence on June 06 and end on July 23.
All the matches of the 2023 Men’s Volleyball Nations League will be streamed live on Volleyball World TV. Viewers can access it from the volleyballworld. tv.
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