2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was the twentieth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 21 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Riffa, Bahrain from 18 to 27 July 2019. 16 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament.

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999.

Iran won its first title in the competition, defeating Italy in the final. Brazil defeated Russia for the bronze medal. Amirhossein Esfandiar from Iran was elected the MVP.

Qualification
A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Bahrain, who qualified automatically as hosts, another 10 teams qualified via six separate continental tournaments while the remaining 5 teams qualified via the FIVB U21 World Ranking.

First round
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U21 World Ranking as of January 2019. 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 Manama, Bahrain on 3 June 2019. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 42nd.


 * Draw

Venues

 * 🇧🇭 Isa Sports City Hall C, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool A, C, E, F, 5th–8th places and Final four
 * 🇧🇭 Isa Sports City Hall B, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool B, D, G, H, 13th–16th places and 9th–12th places

Referees
There were sixteen referees from 5 continental confederations in this tournament.


 * AVC (5)
 * 🇦🇺 Toan Phong Nguyen
 * 🇧🇭 Sami Hassan Ebrahim Sowayed
 * 🇯🇵 Tatsuhiro Sawa
 * 🇰🇷 Bae Sun-ok
 * 🇹🇭 Jirasak Pumduang


 * CAVB (2)
 * Redha Bouzidi
 * Edgar Serole


 * CEV (2)
 * 🇧🇬 Aleksandar Vinaliev
 * 🇬🇧 Nicholas Heckford
 * 🇸🇰 Igor Porvaznik


 * CSV (2)
 * 🇦🇷 José Luis Barrios
 * 🇧🇷 Paulo Luis Beal
 * 🇨🇴 Jorge Ernesto Erazo Maldonado


 * NORCECA (3)
 * Lanza Miller
 * 🇲🇽 Daniel Gonzalez
 * Miguel A. Figueroa Medina

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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 Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).

Second round

 * All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).

Final round

 * All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * Amirhossein Esfandiar
 * Best setter
 * 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Sperotto
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇮🇹 Daniele Lavia
 * Morteza Sharifi
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Cortesia
 * 🇧🇷 Guilherme Voss Santos
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇷🇺 Maksim Sapozhkov
 * Best libero
 * Mohammad Reza Hazratpour