Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner

The Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner is a volleyball friendly competition for the national teams, currently held every year and organized by the Hubert Wagner Foundation.

The first Memorial was held in 2003. The competition has been held every year since, except 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

History
The tournament is played in the middle of the year, always about two weeks before the most important event of the year. Competitions have been created in memory of the best volleyball coach in Poland, Hubert Jerzy Wagner, who won the 1974 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, the Olympic gold in 1976 and silver medals in the Men's European Volleyball Championship in 1975 and 1983 for the Polish team.

In the first few years teams played in Olsztyn. It is now played in various Polish cities to promote volleyball. In 2008, the memorial was also the qualifying tournament for the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship. The first memorial was won by the Dutch national team, which was ahead of Poland and Spain. In the second edition Russia triumphed, and the next again The Netherlands. The winner of the fourth edition was Poland, the fifth - Germany. The next two editions were again won by the hosts.

In 2010, the winners were Brazil, and in 2011 Italy. In 2012, the edition of the memorial was won by Poland ahead of Germany, Argentina and Iran. Poland retained the title in 2013.

National team appearances

 * Legend
 * – Champions
 * – Runners-up
 * – Third place
 * – Fourth place
 * – Did not enter / Did not qualify
 * Q – Qualified for forthcoming tournament

Most valuable player by edition

 * 2004 – 🇷🇺 Sergey Tetyukhin (RUS)
 * 2005 – Marko Klok
 * 2006 – 🇵🇱 Sebastian Świderski (POL)
 * 2007 – 🇩🇪 Jochen Schöps (GER)
 * 2008 – 🇵🇱 Mariusz Wlazły (POL)
 * 2009 – 🇵🇱 Bartosz Kurek (POL)
 * 2010 – 🇧🇷 Murilo Endres (BRA)
 * 2011 – 🇮🇹 Cristian Savani (ITA)
 * 2012 – 🇵🇱 Bartosz Kurek (POL)
 * 2013 – 🇷🇺 Nikolay Pavlov (RUS)
 * 2014 – 🇷🇺 Dmitry Muserskiy (RUS)
 * 2015 – 🇵🇱 Michał Kubiak (POL)
 * 2016 – 🇧🇬 Tsvetan Sokolov (BUL)
 * 2017 – 🇷🇺 Maxim Mikhaylov (RUS)
 * 2018 – 🇵🇱 Artur Szalpuk (POL)
 * 2019 – 🇧🇷 Yoandy Leal (BRA)
 * 2021 – 🇵🇱 Wilfredo León (POL)
 * 2022 – 🇵🇱 Jakub Kochanowski (POL)
 * 2023 – 🇮🇹 Simone Giannelli (ITA)
 * 2024 – 🇵🇱 Kamil Semeniuk (POL)