2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

The 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship, which was hosted by Mexico from 11 to 20 September 2015 in the cities of Mexicali and Tijuana.

Russia, won the tournament after defeating Argentina 3-2 in the final match, thus securing the country's tenth title and the third in a row, after winning the editions of 2011 in Brazil and 2013 in Turkey. Pavel Pankov was elected the Most Valuable Player.

Qualification
The FIVB Sports Events Council confirmed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships on 14 December 2013.

Pools composition
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB U21 World Ranking as of December 2014. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the U21 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U21 World Ranking. The draw was held in Tijuana, Mexico on 25 June 2015. Rankings are shown in brackets except the Hosts who ranked 22nd.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 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

First round

 * All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00).

Second round

 * All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00).

Final round

 * All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00).

Awards
Source:


 * Most valuable player
 * 🇷🇺 Pavel Pankov (RUS)
 * Best scorer
 * 🇸🇮 Tonček Štern (SLO)
 * Best setter
 * 🇦🇷 Matías Sánchez (ARG)
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Volkov (RUS)
 * 🇷🇺 Denis Bogdan (RUS)
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇨🇳 Zhejia Zhang (CHN)
 * 🇹🇷 Osman Durmaz (TUR)
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇧🇷 Caio Olivera (BRA)
 * Best libero
 * 🇦🇷 Santiago Danani (ARG)