Bulgaria opens the European Men’s Under-20 Volleyball Championship – Volleyball – BG Volleyball

With a match of our national teams, the start of the European Championship for men under 20 will be given. The championship will be held in Serbia and Greece between August 26 and September 7, with the Greek city of Arta (Epirus) hosting matches from Group II, which also includes Bulgaria. It is there on the first day and in the first meeting that our young “lions” will face Slovenia. The match starts at 12:00. In the first three days we had to play in the early matches, and after the day off (August 29) our matches are in the second half of the day.

Against the highest ranked team and age group champion for 2022 – Italy, we will play on August 30th. Coach Miroslav Zhivkov’s boys will have a day off before this clash. The next day and at the latest hour, we play another of the favorites – Greece.

Program of Bulgaria in the group phase:

August 26 at 12:00 against Slovenia
August 27 at 14:30 against Scotland
August 28 at 12:00 against the Czech Republic
August 30 at 17:30 against Italy
August 31 at 20:00 against Greece
September 2 at 17:30 against Israel
September 3 at 17:30 against Spain

From the group stage of EuroVolley 2024, only the first two teams in the final ranking of the two groups qualify (according to the following criteria: matches won, ranking points (*3-0 or 3-1 (3 points), 3-2 (2 points ), 2-3 (1 pt), 1-3 or 0-3 (0 pts), match odds/ratio, match points ratio, head-to-head result). one stream play cross-over in head-to-head elimination against the other two in the second stream.

In Group I, which will be held in Vrnjačka Banya (Serbia), there are the teams of Poland, France, Turkey, Finland, Ukraine, Latvia, Austria and the host Serbia.