European men's volleyball championship 2005

Belgrade Arena

The 2005 European Men's Volleyball Championship took place from September 2 to 11, 2005 in Rome ( PalaLottomatica ) and Belgrade ( Belgrade Arena ). The tournament in Italy and Serbia and Montenegro was the first European Championship to be held in two countries. Italy eventually won the title.

mode

The tournament began with a preliminary round in two groups of six teams each. The best two teams in each group reached the placement games. Places five to eight were not played out because of the two host countries.

game schedule

Preliminary round

Group A in Rome
space	team	sentences	Points
1.	Russia	15: 5	10
2.	Italy	13: 4	9
3.	Poland	10: 7	8th
4th	Croatia	9:12	7th
5.	Portugal	6:14	6th
6th	Ukraine	3:15	5

September 3	Poland	Croatia	3-0
	Italy	Portugal	3-0
	Ukraine	Russia	0: 3
September 4th	Portugal	Croatia	2: 3
	Italy	Ukraine	3-0
	Poland	Russia	1: 3
5th September	Ukraine	Portugal	2: 3
	Italy	Poland	3-0
	Croatia	Russia	2: 3
7th of September	Poland	Ukraine	3: 1
	Russia	Portugal	3: 1
	Italy	Croatia	3: 1
September 8th	Poland	Portugal	3-0
	Croatia	Ukraine	3-0
	Italy	Russia	1: 3

Group B in Belgrade
space	team	sentences	Points
1.	Serbia and Montenegro	15: 3	10
2.	Spain	11:10	8th
3.	Greece	10:11	8th
4th	France	12:10	7th
5.	Czech Republic	8:11	7th
6th	Netherlands	4:15	5

September 2nd	Greece	Netherlands	3: 2
	France	Czech Republic	3-0
	Spain	Serbia and M.	0: 3
September 3	Netherlands	France	1: 3
	Spain	Greece	3: 1
	Czech Republic	Serbia and M.	1: 3
September 4th	France	Spain	2: 3
	Czech Republic	Netherlands	3-0
	Greece	Serbia and M.	0: 3
September 6th	Spain	Czech Republic	2: 3
	Serbia and M.	Netherlands	3-0
	France	Greece	3: 2
7th of September	Netherlands	Spain	1: 3
	Czech Republic	Greece	1: 3
	France	Serbia and M.	2: 3

Placement games

Game scene from the final

	Semifinals				final
	September 10
	Russia	3
	Spain	2
					September 11
					Italy	3
					Russia	2
					3rd place match
	September 10				September 11
	Italy	3			Serbia and Montenegro	3
	Serbia u. M.	2			Spain	0

Individual awards

Most valuable player	Alberto Cisolla	Italy
Best attacker	Israel Rodriguez	Spain
Best server	Ivan Miljković	Serbia u. M.
Best blocker	Luigi Mastrangelo	Italy
Best Libero	Mirko Corsano	Italy
Best player	Nikola Grbić	Serbia u. M.
Best adoption player	Pavel Abramov	Russia

Web links

• Information of the CEV (English)