Iran will kick off the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup with a match against Italy. The match has been scheduled for September 12 in Nagoya, Japan. The tournament will bring six teams in Nagoya and Osaka namely, Japan, Iran, the U.S., Brazil, Italy and France together from September 12 to 17. The […]
Iran will kick off the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup with a match against Italy.
The match has been scheduled for September 12 in Nagoya, Japan.
The tournament will bring six teams in Nagoya and Osaka namely, Japan, Iran, the U.S., Brazil, Italy and France together from September 12 to 17.
The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup will be the 7th staging of the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup, a quadrennial international men’s volleyball tournament organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).
FIVB announced the four best ranked continents in the 2016 Olympic Games were eligible to participate in the tournament. South America, Europe, North America, and Asia confederations were eligible to send representatives.
The competition formula of the 2017 Men’s World Grand Champions Cup is a single Round-Robin system. Each team plays against each of the five remaining teams. Points are accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing is determined by the total points gained.