2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship

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.

Twenty-one point rule
For this tournament, the first four sets were played over 21 points.

Qualification
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.

Pools composition
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 the hosts who ranked 1st.

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 Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).

Final round

 * All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇧🇷 Ricardo Lucarelli Souza
 * Best setter
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Kovalev
 * Best Outside Spikers
 * 🇷🇸 Uroš Kovačević
 * 🇷🇸 Filip Stoilović
 * Best Middle Blockers
 * 🇧🇬 Ventsislav Ragin
 * 🇧🇷 Matheus Cunda
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Atanasijević
 * Best libero
 * 🇧🇷 Guilherme Kachel