Eight teams will participate in the FIVB Volleyball
Men's Club World Championship 2011.
This is how the eight teams were decided:
As hosts of the competition, Al Arabi qualified automatically for the
Championship.
The seven remaining teams qualified thanks to the Continental
Championships:
- Trentino BetClic (ITA) and Zenit Kazan (RUS) won the two qualifying places available at the 2011
CEV Champions League with the former winning the tournament.
- Al Ahly Sporting Club (EGY) qualified after winning the Men's African Club
Championship.
- Trinity Western Spartans (CAN) were nominated by NORCECA.
- Paykan (IRI) won the Asian Men's Club Championship.
- SESI-SP (BRA) won the CSV Men's Club
Championship.
Additionally, KS Jastrzebski Wegiel (POL) qualified
as wildcard recipients.
Full continental rankings:
| AFRICA | |
| Men's African Club Championship - April 28-May 7, 2011 - Cairo, Egypt | |
|
1. Al Ahly Sporting Club (EGY) 2. Kenya Prisons (KEN) 3. El Guish (EGY) 4. National University (RWA) 5. FAP (CMR) 6. Setif (ALG) 7. Port (CMR) 8. Blida (ALG) |
9. GSU (KEN) 10. OSB (NGR) 11. Inter Club (CGO) 12. Daim Hamad (SUD) 13. Redskins (LES) 14. Rukinzo (BUR) 15. Al Nahda (SUD) 16. Al Saggana (SUD) |
| ASIA | |
| Asian Men's Club Championship - July 23-31, 2011 - Palembang, Indonesia | |
|
1. Paykan (IRI) 2. Almaty (KAZ) 3. Tang Dynasty (CHN) 4. Sakai Blazer (JPN) 5. Chang (THA) 6. Bank Sumsel Babel (INA) 7. Al Rayyan (QAT) 8. PTSC (VIE) |
9. Asia World Club (MYA) 10. Talyp Sport (TKM) 11. UzbekTelecom (UZB) 12. Etisalat (AFG) |
| EUROPE | |
|
2011 CEV Champions League
1. Trentino BetClic (ITA) 2. Zenit Kazan (RUS) 3. Dynamo Moscow (RUS) 4. Jastrzebski Wegiel (POL) |
|
| NORCECA | |
| NORCECA Representative | |
| 1. Trinity Western Spartans (CAN) | |
| SOUTH AMERICA | |
| 2011 Men's CSV Club Championship | |
|
1. SESI-SP (BRA) 2. UPCN (ARG) 3. Catholic University (CHI) 4. Club Peerless (PER) |
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Al Ahly
book FIVB Men’s World Club Championship spot with 10th African crown
Cairo, Egypt, May 7, 2011 – Al Ahly of Egypt captured their second consecutive and 10th in total men’s African Club Championship title after defeating Prisons of Kenya in straight sets 3-0 (25-13, 25-16, 25-10) in the final at Al Ahly club hall in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday to book a place in the FIVB Men’s Club World Championship for a second successive year.
Paykan clinch club world champs berth
Palembang, Indonesia, July 30, 2011 – Title-holders Paykan from Iran stretched their invincible aura in the Asian Men’s Volleyball Club Championship as they clinched their seven title, and sixth in a row, after methodically crushing an off-form Almaty of Kazakhstan in a one-sided final.
Trentino clinch third straight Champions League
crown
Bolzano, Italy, March 27, 2011 – The 2010 FIVB Men's Club World
champions Trentino BetClic of Italy completed a hat-trick of CEV Champions
League titles on Sunday with a 3-1 (25-17, 20-25, 25-23, 25-20) victory
over Zenit Kazan of Russia in Bolzano.
Sesi-SP book place at Club World Championships
Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 9, 2011 – Brazilian men’s club Sesi-SP became the latest team to qualify for the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship after they saw off Argentina’s UPCN in straight sets (25-16, 25-15, 25-15) in the South American Men’s Club Championship in front of their home fans in Sao Paulo.