2007 Men's European Volleyball League

The 2007 Men's European Volleyball League
European Volleyball League
The European Volleyball League is an annual continental volleyball tournament, introduced in 2004. The event is the European equivalent of the FIVB World League. After a preliminary league round the tournament ends with a Final Four, hosted in one city. The women's tournament introduced in...

was the fourth edition of the annual Men's Volleyball Tournament

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, played by twelve European countries from May 26 to July 8, 2007. The Final Four was held in Portimão

Portimão

Portimão is a Portuguese town located in the District of Faro in the Region of Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão . In 1924, it was incorporated as a cidade and became known merely as Portimão. The town has 41,000 inhabitants and the Portimão...

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

from July 7 to July 8.

Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C

Group A

Team	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1	20	12	8	4	1088	998	1.090	30	18	1.667
2	20	12	8	4	1091	1048	1.041	28	21	1.333
3	18	12	6	6	988	1008	0.980	23	22	1.045
4	14	12	2	10	941	1054	0.893	13	33	0.394

Group B

Team	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1	21	12	9	3	1146	1078	1.063	32	19	1.684
2	19	12	7	5	1074	1055	1.018	26	21	1.238
3	17	12	5	7	972	1003	0.969	19	25	0.760
4	15	12	3	9	995	1051	0.947	17	29	0.586

- Portugal qualified as host nation of the Final Four

Group C

Team	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1	22	12	10	2	1173	1082	1.084	32	17	1.882
2	21	12	9	3	1137	1054	1.079	31	18	1.722
3	15	12	3	9	1104	1205	0.916	18	33	0.545
4	14	12	2	10	1111	1184	0.938	19	32	0.594

Final four

Semi finals

Saturday July 7

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Finals

Sunday July 8 — Bronze Medal Match

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- Sunday July 11 — Gold Medal Match
  
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Final ranking

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