The seventh edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup will be held from September 12 to 17 in the cities of Nagoya and Osaka in Japan. The tournament will be contested in a Round-Robin system. Thus, each team will play 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.

Schedule

Nagoya Round (All times are in Japan Standard Time UTC + 9) Date Time Match ups 12 Sep 12:40 France Brazil 12 Sep 15:40 Italy Iran 12 Sep 19:15 Japan United States 13 Sep 12:40 Brazil Italy 13 Sep 15:40 United States Iran 13 Sep 19:15 Japan France

Osaka Round (All times are in Japan Standard Time UTC + 9) Date Time Match Ups 15 Sep 12:40 Iran Brazil 15 Sep 15:40 France United States 15 Sep 19:15 Italy Japan 16 Sep 12:40 United States Brazil 16 Sep 15:40 France Italy 16 Sep 19:15 Japan Iran 17 Sep 11:40 Italy United States 17 Sep 14:40 Iran France 17 Sep 18:15 Brazil Japan

Host Cities

Nagoya, with a population of over two million, is Japan’s fourth largest city. It has flourished since the Edo era as one of the country’s leading urban locations. The city is the birthplace of three notable feudal lords, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu and today plays an important role in Japan’s ceramics, textiles and automobiles industries. Nagoya is the sister city of Los Angeles and Sydney and has long been active in hosting international events, including numerous FIVB competitions.

Osaka is Japan’s third largest and second most important city and has been the economic powerhouse of the Kansai region for many centuries. Many volleyball teams of the V-League, the Japanese Volleyball Premier League, are based In the Kansai-area. Osaka hosted the final of the 2003 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup as well as matches of the FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup in 2007 and FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Cup 2015.

Teams and Extended Rosters

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 representatives were determined by their continental rankings at the Olympic tournament. The four teams will join the host team and a wild card team which to compete for the World Grand Champions Cup title.

For a full review of each teams and VolleyMob power rankings, click here.

Brazil

Team USA

France

N° NAME BIRTHDATE HEIGHT WEIGHT SPIKE BLOCK CLUB 1 Jonas Aguenier 28/04/1992 202 92 340 310 Chaumont VB 52 (FRA) 2 Jenia Grebennikov 13/08/1990 188 85 345 330 AS Lube Volley (ITA) 3 Quentin Jouffroy 05/07/1993 202 100 345 325 Tours VB (FRA) 4 Jean Patry 27/12/1996 207 94 337 314 Montpellier VUC (FRA) 5 Trevor Clevenot 28/06/1994 199 89 335 316 Volley Piacenza (ITA) 6 Benjamin Toniutti 30/10/1989 183 73 320 300 Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle (POL) 7 Kevin Tillie 02/11/1990 200 85 345 325 Zaksa Kedzierzyn (POL) 8 Julien Lyneel 15/04/1990 192 87 345 325 Porto Robur Costa Ravenna(ITA) 9 Earvin Ngapeth 12/02/1991 194 101 358 327 Modena Volley (ITA) 10 Kevin Le Roux 11/05/1989 209 98 365 345 Modena Volley (ITA) 11 Antoine Brizard 22/05/1994 196 96 340 310 Toulouse OAC-TUC (FRA) 12 Stephen Boyer 10/04/1996 196 85 335 314 Chaumont VB 52 (FRA) 14 Nicolas Le Goff 15/02/1992 206 105 365 328 Istanbul BBSK (TUR) 16 Daryl Bultor 17/11/1995 197 94 342 317 Montpellier VUC (FRA) 17 Guillaume Quesque 29/04/1989 204 87 350 325 Fenerbahce SK (TUR) 18 Thibault Rossard 28/08/1993 193 85 350 320 Resovia Rzeszow (POL) 19 Meliuahel Takaniko 29/05/1985 194 92 340 330 GFC Ajaccio VB (FRA) 20 Nicolas Rossard 23/05/1990 183 64 315 305 Toulouse OAC-TUC (FRA) 21 Barthélémy Chinenyeze 28/02/1998 200 80 357 332 Toulouse OAC-TUC (FRA) 24 Thomas Nevot 30/04/1995 192 84 320 305 Tours VB (FRA)

Italy

Iran

N° NAME BIRTHDATE HEIGHT WEIGHT SPIKE BLOCK CLUB 1 Farhad Salafzoon 06/12/1992 200 81 320 313 Matin Varna 2 Milad Ebadipour 17/10/1993 196 78 350 310 Shahrdari Urmia 3 Saman Faezi 23/08/1991 204 87 343 335 Paykan 4 Saeid Marouflakrani 20/10/1985 189 81 331 311 Shahrdari Urmia 5 Farhad Ghaemi 28/08/1989 197 73 355 335 Paykan 6 Seyed Eraghi 22/08/1987 203 86 362 344 Sarmayeh Bank 7 Amirhossein Esfandiar 24/01/1999 205 110 330 310 Kalleh Mazandaran 8 Mostafa Heydari 14/12/1991 175 68 263 259 Saipa 10 Amir Ghafour 06/06/1991 202 90 354 334 Paykan 11 Farhad Afshar 22/05/1984 195 93 320 308 Paykan 12 Mojtaba Mirzajanpour 07/10/1991 205 88 355 348 Paykan 13 Javad Karimisouchelmaei 01/03/1998 204 104 330 310 Kalleh Mazandaran 14 M. Manavinezhad 27/11/1995 200 84 340 320 Paykan 15 Amin Esmaeilnezhad 17/12/1996 203 90 343 332 Paykan 16 Ali Shafiei 21/09/1991 190 80 348 345 Bank Keshavarzi 17 Reza Ghara 31/07/1991 200 87 351 331 Kalleh 18 Rahman Zadeh 26/07/1995 205 98 348 328 Parseh 19 Mahdi Marandi 12/05/1986 172 69 295 280 Paykan 20 Masoud Gholami 02/04/1990 204 93 349 331 SAIPA 21 Salim Cheperli 19/12/1996 201 80 340 330 Paykan

Japan