en 2023 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner

2023 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner
Tournament details
Host nation	Poland
Dates	18–20 August 2023
Teams	4
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Italy (2nd title)
Runners-up	Slovenia
Third place	Poland
Fourth place	France
Tournament awards
MVP	Simone Giannelli
Best Setter	Simone Giannelli
Best OH	Rok Možič
Best MB	Jan Kozamernik
Best OPP	Alessandro Michieletto
Best Libero	Paweł Zatorski
Official website
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The XX Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner was a volleyball tournament held at Tauron Arena in Kraków, Poland from 18 to 20 August 2023. Like the previous editions, 4 teams participated including 2023 Volleyball Nations League gold medalist Poland, 2020 Olympic gold medalist and 2022 Volleyball Nations League winner France, 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship gold medalist Italy, and two times 2019, 2021 EuroVolley silver medalist Slovenia. This year tournament was held a week before the 2023 EuroVolley.^[1]^[2]

Participating teams

Team^[3]	Appearance			Best performance
Team^[3]	Last	Total	Streak	Best performance
Poland	2022	20	19	10× Champions (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022)
Italy	2011	4	1	1× Champions (2011)
France	2018	4	2	1x Runner-up (2017)
Slovenia	N/A	1	0	debut (2023)

Qualification

All teams except the host must have received an invitation from the organizers.

Africa (CAVB)	Asia and Oceania (AVC)	Europe (CEV)	North, Central America and Caribbean (NORCECA)	South America (CSV)
		Host nation: Poland Wild card: Italy France Slovenia

Venue

Kraków, Poland
Tauron Arena
Capacity: 15,328

Squads

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Results

All times are local Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Italy	3	2	1	7	8	4	2.000	290	267	1.086
2	Slovenia	3	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	277	266	1.041
3	Poland	3	1	2	3	4	7	0.571	245	257	0.953
4	France	3	1	2	3	4	7	0.571	245	267	0.918

Source: standing

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Aug	17:30	Poland	0–3	Slovenia	21–25	18–25	21–25			60–75	Report
18 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–0	France	29–27	25–21	25–20			79–68	Report
19 Aug	14:00	Slovenia	3–2	Italy	20–25	25–19	25–23	21–25	25–23	116–115	Report
19 Aug	17:00	Poland	3–1	France	27–29	25–16	25–21	25–20		102–86	Report
20 Aug	14:00	France	3–1	Slovenia	16–25	25–19	25–22	25–20		91–86	Report
20 Aug	17:00	Poland	1–3	Italy	18–25	23–25	25–21	17–25		83–96	Report