The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The tournament was held in Matosinhos, Portugal from 20 to 24 June 2018.
Portugal won the title, defeating Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing South Korea, the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition. Estonia defeated Cuba in the 3rd place match.
Qualification
A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 30th.
Squads
Venue
Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal
Pool standing procedure
Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
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 Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00).