2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship

The 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship was the 31st edition of the Men's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. For the first time the EuroVolley was held in four countries: France, Slovenia, Belgium and Netherlands. The tournament ran from 12 to 29 September 2019. The number of national teams participating in the event was also expanded from 16 to 24.

Serbia won the title over finalist Slovenia in the final held in Paris.

Pools composition
Montenegro and North Macedonia made their first appearance, whilst Russia was the defending champions. The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:
 * 1) The 4 Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. France in Pool A, Belgium in Pool B, Slovenia in Pool C and Netherlands in Pool D.
 * 2) The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools,
 * 3) According to the CEV National Team ranking list as per 4 September 2017, National Federations are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.

The drawing of lots was held on 16 January 2019 at the Atomium, Brussels, Belgium.
 * Draw

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 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, 3 and 4 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

Preliminary round

 * All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
 * The top four teams in each pool qualified for the final round.

Final round

 * All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇷🇸 Uroš Kovačević
 * Best setter
 * 🇫🇷 Benjamin Toniutti
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇵🇱 Wilfredo León
 * 🇷🇸 Uroš Kovačević
 * Best middle blockers
 * Jan Kozamernik
 * 🇷🇸 Srećko Lisinac
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Atanasijević
 * Best libero
 * Jani Kovačič