The men’s tournament will be 16 matches, organised into two rounds. The preliminary round will account for 12 matches, and the final will have four.Again, two pools will be formed – this time of four teams each. The teams will play a round robin tournament to determine the ranking, and the teams ranked third and fourth in each preliminary pool will be eliminated and all classified as fifth-place finishers.The team ranked first in each pool after the preliminary round will play against the team ranked second in the other pool in the semifinals. The losers of those semifinal matches will play for third and fourth places while the winners play for first and second.
The eight Teams qualified for the FIVB Men’s Club World Championship are: Al-Rayyan Sport Club, Qatar; Zenit Kazan, Russia( ); Zamalek, Egypt; Al-Arabi, Qatar; Tigres UANL , Mexico; Skra belchatow, Poland(
); Trentino Diatec, Italy(
); and a yet-to-be-determined team from South America.