Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification

The European Qualification Tournament for the 2016 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held in Berlin, Germany from 5 to 10 January 2016. Russia won the tournament by beating France 3–1, and qualified for the Summer Olympics. Sergey Tetyukhin was selected the most valuable player.

Qualification
The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015 which had not yet qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 4th.


 * (Hosts)
 * (1)
 * (3)
 * (4)
 * (6)
 * (7)
 * (8)
 * (9)

Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking. The pools were confirmed on 23 October 2015.

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

Preliminary round

 * All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Final round

 * All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Tetyukhin
 * Best setter
 * 🇫🇷 Benjamin Toniutti
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇫🇷 Earvin N'Gapeth
 * 🇩🇪 Denys Kaliberda
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇩🇪 Marcus Böhme
 * 🇵🇱 Mateusz Bieniek
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇷🇺 Maxim Mikhaylov
 * Best libero
 * 🇫🇷 Jenia Grebennikov