Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification

Main article: Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The European qualification for the 2004 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 7 September 2003 to 10 January 2004.

Elimination round

• Dates: 7–21 September 2003
• All times are local.
• In case of an aggregate set tie, teams compare an aggregate point to determine the winner.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hungary	6–1	Azerbaijan	3–1	3–0
Denmark	1–6	Slovenia	1–3	0–3
Latvia	2–6	Croatia	2–3	0–3
Estonia	3–31	Turkey	3–0	0–3

¹ Estonia won 133–130 on the aggregate point.

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
7 Sep	13:00	Estonia	3–0	Turkey	25–16	25–21	25–18			75–55
7 Sep	17:00	Latvia	2–3	Croatia	25–20	25–18	23–25	23–25	13–15	109–103
7 Sep	19:00	Denmark	1–3	Slovenia	19–25	25–19	21–25	22–25		87–94
17 Sep	18:00	Hungary	3–1	Azerbaijan	25–13	23–25	25–19	25–19		98–76

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
18 Sep	18:00	Hungary	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–13	25–18	25–18			75–49
20 Sep	14:00	Turkey	3–0	Estonia	25–17	25–18	25–23			75–58
20 Sep	17:00	Croatia	3–0	Latvia	25–15	25–20	25–18			75–53
21 Sep	18:00	Slovenia	3–0	Denmark	25–22	25–15	25–20			75–57

Pre–qualification tournament

• Host: Kuopio, Finland
• Dates: 19–23 November 2003
• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00).

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Ukraine	2	2	0	4	6	2	3.000	196	170	1.153	Semifinals
2	Slovenia	2	1	1	3	4	5	0.800	193	198	0.975
3	Croatia	2	0	2	2	3	6	0.500	182	203	0.897

Source:

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
19 Nov	20:30	Ukraine	3–1	Slovenia	25–27	25–21	25–20	25–18		100–86
20 Nov	18:00	Croatia	1–3	Ukraine	25–21	17–25	19–25	23–25		84–96
21 Nov	20:30	Slovenia	3–2	Croatia	25–17	25–21	23–25	19–25	15–10	107–98

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Hungary	2	2	0	4	6	2	3.000	182	147	1.238	Semifinals
2	Finland	2	1	1	3	5	5	1.000	203	206	0.985
3	Estonia	2	0	2	2	2	6	0.333	148	180	0.822

Source:

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
19 Nov	18:00	Finland	3–2	Estonia	25–19	18–25	22–25	25–22	15–8	105–99
20 Nov	14:30	Estonia	0–3	Hungary	13–25	16–25	20–25			49–75
21 Nov	18:00	Hungary	3–2	Finland	18–25	24–26	25–21	25–20	15–6	107–98

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	22 November
	Ukraine	1
					23 November
	Finland	3
					Finland	3
	22 November
					Slovenia	1
	Slovenia	3
	Hungary	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Nov	14:00	Ukraine	1–3	Finland	19–25	28–26	23–25	23–25		93–101
22 Nov	16:30	Slovenia	3–0	Hungary	25–17	25–18	25–15			75–50

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
23 Nov	15:00	Finland	3–1	Slovenia	23–25	25–17	25–21	25–21		98–84

Final standing

Rank	Team
1	Finland
2	Slovenia
3	Hungary
	Ukraine
5	Croatia
	Estonia

Qualified for the Qualification tournament

Qualification tournament

• Venue: Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
• Dates: 5–10 January 2004
• All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	230	180	1.278	Semifinals
2	Germany	3	1	2	4	5	6	0.833	248	249	0.996
3	Bulgaria	3	1	2	4	3	6	0.500	190	206	0.922
4	Poland	3	1	2	4	3	8	0.375	222	255	0.871

Source:

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
5 Jan	17:30	Bulgaria	0–3	Germany	19–25	19–25	18–25			56–75
6 Jan	15:00	Bulgaria	0–3	Russia	20–25	20–25	19–25			59–75
6 Jan	20:00	Germany	2–3	Poland	25–22	16–25	27–25	24–26	13–15	105–113
7 Jan	17:30	Russia	3–0	Poland	25–19	25–16	25–18			75–53
8 Jan	15:00	Poland	0–3	Bulgaria	19–25	19–25	18–25			56–75
8 Jan	20:00	Germany	0–3	Russia	23–25	17–25	28–30			68–80

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	225	172	1.308	Semifinals
2	France	3	2	1	5	6	4	1.500	248	233	1.064
3	Spain	3	1	2	4	4	8	0.500	241	287	0.840
4	Finland	3	0	3	3	2	9	0.222	231	253	0.913

Source:

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
5 Jan	15:00	Spain	1–3	France	21–25	37–35	16–25	19–25		93–110
5 Jan	20:00	Netherlands	3–0	Finland	25–22	25–23	25–19			75–64
6 Jan	17:30	Finland	2–3	Spain	19–25	25–22	25–15	23–25	10–15	102–102
7 Jan	15:00	France	3–0	Finland	25–20	26–24	25–21			76–65
7 Jan	20:00	Spain	0–3	Netherlands	20–25	14–25	12–25			46–75
8 Jan	17:30	France	0–3	Netherlands	21–25	18–25	23–25			62–75

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	9 January
	Russia	3
					10 January
	France	0
					Russia	3
	9 January
					Netherlands	0
	Netherlands	3
	Germany	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
9 Jan	17:30	Russia	3–0	France	25–23	25–16	25–23			75–62
9 Jan	20:00	Netherlands	3–0	Germany	25–21	25–23	25–17			75–61

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Jan	15:30	Russia	3–0	Netherlands	25–19	25–17	25–16			75–52

Final standing

Rank	Team
1	Russia
2	Netherlands
3	France
	Germany
5	Bulgaria
	Spain
7	Finland
	Poland

Qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics

External links

• Official website