Russia Moves Into Tie for Top Spot in CEV Rankings

  0 Wendy Mayer | September 06th, 2017 | European volleyball, International Volleyball, News

Now that the European men’s championship has been decided, the latest round of the CEV rankings has been release, reflecting those results.

Ranking points include the last two editions of the European Championships combined with the current year’s CEV European League, FIVB World League and FIVB World Championship tournaments.

Because of the cumulative nature of the ranking points, there wasn’t too much movement in the upper ranks.

Russia, which won the Euro Championship in a five-set thriller over Germany on Sunday, moved up one spot into a tie for first place with France. Bronze medalist Serbia, which edged Belgium in five sets for the final podium spot, remained in the third position in the rankings.

The runnerup finish left the Germans in eighth, while Belgium, which finished fourth at Euros, remained in fourth in the CEV rankings.

Poland moved up a spot to fourth after finishing 10th at Euros, while Italy dropped from fourth to fifth after finishing fifth.

Big movers in the rankings were the Czech Republic which moved up two spots to 11th, Greece, which jumped three spot to 19th and Sweden, which moved up five spots to 19th.

European Championship Final Standings

Rank Team
1st, gold medalist(s)  Russia
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Germany
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Serbia
4  Belgium
5  Italy
6  Bulgaria
7  Czech Republic
8  Slovenia
9  France
10  Poland
11  Turkey
12  Finland
13  Estonia
14  Netherlands
15  Slovakia
16  Spain

CEV European Rankings (as of 9/4/17)

Pos. Team Total Movement 2017 CEV ECH M 2015 CEV ECH M 2017 CEV EL M 2014 FIVB WCH M 2017 FIVB WL
1 RUS 280
+1
100 90 44 46
1 FRA 280 84 100 46 50
3 SRB 274 96 88 42 48
4 POL 266
+1
82 92 50 42
5 ITA 264
-1
92 96 38 38
6 BUL 262 90 94 38 40
7 BEL 254 94 82 34 44
8 GER 250 98 86 48 18
8 SLO 250
+1
86 98 30 36
10 FIN 226 78 78 42 28
11 CZE 222
+2
88 76 28 30
11 NED 222 74 84 30 34
13 EST 206
+1
76 80 28 22
13 SVK 206
-1
72 74 28 32
15 TUR 194
-1
80 60 30 24
16 POR 188 66 68 28 26
17 ESP 184
+1
70 66 28 20
18 UKR 178
-1
58 58 32 30
19 GRE 168
+3
68 62 26 12
19 SWE 168
+5
62 64 24 18

Competition Code Explanations:
2017 CEV ECH M – 2017 CEV Volleyball European Championship – Men
2015 CEV ECH M – 2015 CEV Volleyball European Championship – Men
2017 CEV EL M – 2017 CEV Volleyball European League – Men
2014 FIVB WCH M – 2014 FIVB World Championship
2017 FIVB WL – 2017 FIVB World League

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Wendy Mayer

Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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