2020 African Volleyball Championship U21

2020 African Volleyball Championship U21
Tournament details
Host nation Egypt
CityCairo
Dates20–24 February 2021
Teams4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Egypt (5th title)
Runners-up Cameroon
Third place Morocco
Fourth place DR Congo
Tournament awards
MVP Marawan El Safy
Best Setter Anas Shawky
Best Libero Stephanie Mana
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Best spiker Driss Mostari
Best blocker Derrick Deffo
Best server Ahmed Abelazeem Mido
Best receiver Abdelrahman El Hossini

The 2020 African Volleyball Championship U21 was held in Cairo, Egypt from 20 to 24 February 2021. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship.[1]

Egypt finished the 4-team round-robin tournament on top of the standing to clinch their fifth title.[2]

Qualification

5 CAVB under-21 national teams have registered to participate in the 2020 African Championship U21. But, Central African Republic later withdrew.[3]

  •  Egypt (Hosts)
  •  Central African Republic
  •  Cameroon
  •  DR Congo
  •  Morocco

Squads

Venue

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

Round robin

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR
1  Egypt 3 3 0 9 9 1 9.000 242 174 1.391
2  Cameroon 3 2 1 6 7 4 1.750 256 226 1.133
3  Morocco 3 1 2 3 4 7 0.571 238 255 0.933
4  DR Congo 3 0 3 0 1 9 0.111 167 248 0.673
Source:
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Feb 17:00 Cameroon  3–1  Morocco 25–20 23–25 25–17 26–24   99–86 P2
20 Feb 21:05 Egypt  3–0  DR Congo 25–9 25–18 25–11     75–38 P2
22 Feb 17:00 DR Congo  1–3  Morocco 25–22 20–25 12–25 24–26   81–98 P2
22 Feb 20:00 Egypt  3–1  Cameroon 25–21 25–19 17–25 25–17   92–82 P2
24 Feb 16:00 DR Congo  0–3  Cameroon 19–25 15–25 14–25     48–75 P2
24 Feb 19:00 Egypt  3–0  Morocco 25–14 25–19 25–21     75–54 P2

Final standing

Awards

  • Most valuable player
    Marawan El Safy
  • Best spiker
    Driss Mostari
  • Best blocker
    Derrick Deffo
  • Best server
    Ahmed Abelazeem Mido
  • Best setter
    Anas Shawky
  • Best receiver
    Abdelrahman El Hossini
  • Best libero
    Stephanie Mana

References

  1. ^ "Men's U21 Volleyball African Nations Championship's technical meeting set for Friday". CAVB. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Egypt crowned Men's U21 African Champions, Cameroon second, Morocco third". CAVB. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Four teams to fight for U21 African Nations Championship". CAVB. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.