2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

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.

Competition formula
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.

Venues

 * 🇹🇷 Başkent Volleyball Hall, Ankara, Turkey – Pool A, B and Final round
 * 🇹🇷 Atatürk Sport Hall, İzmir, Turkey – Pool C, D and Final round

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Match points
 * 2) Number of matches won
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) Result of the last match between the tied teams

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 Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Final round

 * All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇷🇺 Victor Poletaev
 * Best setter
 * 🇹🇷 Murat Yenipazar
 * Best Outside Spikers
 * 🇷🇺 Egor Feoktistov
 * 🇫🇷 Thibault Rossard
 * Best Middle Blockers
 * 🇮🇹 Edoardo Picco
 * 🇷🇺 Ilyas Kurkaev
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇧🇷 Alan Souza
 * Best libero
 * 🇹🇷 Alperay Demirciler