Ukraine Makes Huge Pushes In CEV Rankings This Summer

This summer, the CEV has announced new rankings for indoor volleyball, with the men’s coming back at the beginning of July and the women’s more recently in August.

Holding strong at the #1 slot for the men are France, with Russia climbing up one spot to #2 over Serbia. Italy has had a small setback after dropping two spots to #4. The top three of the women’s have stayed fairly similar in that Russia, Serbia and Italy still hold their spots. Germany suffered a slight setback to #4.

On the rise for both the men and women in the CEV is the Ukraine, as they are climbing the rankings rapidly this year. On the women’s side, they just increased five positions to #14 while on the men’s side they are up seven slots to #17. Also making a big leap in the rankings is Finland, improving four positions to #20 on the women’s side and Sweeden moving up to #24 from #27 on the men’s side.

Men’s Rankings

(Top 25, as of July 20, 2017)

Pos.	Team	Total	Movement	2015 CEV ECH M	2013 CEV ECH M	2017 CEV EL M	2017 FIVB WL	2014 FIVB WCH M
1	FRA	288		100	92		50	46
2	RUS	280	+1	90	100		46	44
3	SRB	274		88	96		48	42
4	ITA	270	-2	96	98		38	38
5	POL	268		92	84		42	50
6	BUL	266		94	94		40	38
7	BEL	248	+1	82	88		44	34
8	GER	242	-1	86	90		18	48
9	SLO	240	+2	98	76		36	30
10	FIN	234	-1	78	86		28	42
11	NED	230	-1	84	82		34	30
12	SVK	214		74	80		32	28
13	CZE	204		76	70		30	28
14	EST	188		80	58		22	28
14	TUR	188	+1	60	74		24	30
16	POR	184		68	62		26	28
17	UKR	176	+7	58	56	32		30
18	BLR	168	-1	70	72			26
18	ESP	168	+1	66	54		20	28
20	CRO	162		72	64			26
21	MKD	156		52	50	28		26
22	GRE	154	-4	62	66			26
22	DEN	154		46	78	20		10
24	SWE	150	+3	64	44	24		18
25	MNE	142	-2	56	60		14	12

Women’s Rankings

(Top 25, as of August 7, 2017)

Pos.	Team	Total	Movement	2015 CEV ECH W	2013 CEV ECH W	2017 CEV EL W	2017 FIVB WGP	2014 FIVB WCH W
1	RUS	292		100	100		44	48
2	SRB	284		96	94		48	46
3	ITA	278		88	90		50	50
4	GER	270	-1	92	98		36	44
5	TUR	268		94	88		42	44
6	BEL	266	+1	90	96		40	40
7	NED	264	-2	98	84		46	36
8	CRO	240		82	92		30	36
9	POL	234		86	80		38	30
10	CZE	226	+1	80	82		34	30
11	BUL	224	-1	76	76		32	40
12	BLR	204	+1	84	78	16		26
13	FRA	202	+1	64	86	0*	26	26
14	UKR	194	+5	66	68	32		28
15	HUN	188	+2	78	54		28	28
16	AZE	178	-4	74	72			32
16	SVK	178	-1	68	66	16		28
18	ESP	168		52	70	18		28
19	ROU	166	-3	72	64			30
20	FIN	160	+4	60	60	28		12
21	SUI	158	-1	58	74			26
22	ISR	152	-1	62	62			28
23	SLO	128	-2	70	58
24	AUT	126	+1	54	52	8		12
24	GRE	126	-1	50	56			20