| Final Four played at Izmir | | Game | date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | | Final | 13.09 | 20:30 |  Poland | 3-1 |  France | 96-97 | 29-27 | 25-21 | 16-25 | 26-24 | | Stats | | 3-4 | 13.09 | 17:30 |  Bulgaria | 3-0 |  Russia | 76-63 | 25-18 | 26-24 | 25-21 | | Stats | | 1/2 | 12.09 | 17:30 | Poland | 3-0 | Bulgaria | 80-67 | 25-19 | 30-28 | 25-20 | | | 1/2 | 12.09 | 20:30 | France | 3-2 | Russia | 107-107 | 25-18 | 25-22 | 25-27 | 15-25 | 17-15 |
Bulgaria could not rise a performance against Poland. France upset Russia with a strong defence.
In Bronze Medal Match Russia had no arguments against Bulgaria. Altough France fought hard in the Final Poland was a Just Winner.
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| Individual Awards | | MVP | Piotr Gruszka | POL | | Scorer | Antonin Rouzier | FRA | | Setter | Pawel Zagumny | POL | | Spiker | Alexander Volkov | RUS | | Server | Yury Berezhko | RUS | | Blocker | Viktor Yosifov | BUL | | Receiver | Stéphane Antiga | FRA | | Libero | Hubert Henno | FRA |
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| New teams Czechia and Estonia | | instead of Belgium and Croatia |
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| Group E | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Poland | 5 | 0 | 15: | 6 | 1.134 | | 2. France | 4 | 1 | 13: | 7 | 1.100 | | 3. Germany | 3 | 2 | 11: | 9 | 0.989 | | 4. Greece | 2 | 3 | 8: | 11 | 0.938 | | 5. Spain | 1 | 4 | 7: | 14 | 0.935 | | 6. Slovakia | 0 | 5 | 8: | 15 | 0.930 |
| Team | Po | Fr | Ge | Gr | Sp | Sl | | Poland | --- | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:0 | 3:2 | 3:2 | | France | | --- | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:1 | | Germany | | | --- | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:1 | | Greece | | | | --- | 3:0 | 3:2 | | Spain | | | | | --- | 3:2 | | Slovakia | | | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | 08.09 | 15:00 |  Germany | 3-1 |  Greece | 104-91 | 25-13 | 33-31 | 21-25 | 25-21 | | | 08.09 | 17:30 | Poland | 3-2 |  Spain | 108-103 | 18-25 | 25-20 | 25-18 | 23-25 | 17-15 | | 08.09 | 20:00 | France | 3-1 |  Slovakia | 99-92 | 25-23 | 24-26 | 25-22 | 25-21 | | | 09.09 | 15:00 | Germany | 3-1 | Spain | 96-93 | 19-25 | 27-25 | 25-23 | 25-20 | | | 09.09 | 17:30 | Poland | 3-2 | Slovakia | 101-89 | 21-25 | 25-15 | 25-10 | 14-25 | 16-14 | | 09.09 | 20:00 | France | 3-1 | Greece | 105-91 | 25-18 | 30-32 | 25-18 | 25-23 | | | 10.09 | 15:00 | Germany | 3-1 | Slovakia | 96-84 | 25-22 | 21-25 | 25-16 | 25-21 | | | 10.09 | 17:30 | France | 3-1 | Spain | 100-80 | 25-21 | 25-15 | 25-27 | 25-17 | | | 10.09 | 20:00 | Poland | 3-0 | Greece | 78-68 | 25-22 | 28-26 | 25-20 | |
All the teams from Group A were better than those from Group C.
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| Group F | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Russia | 5 | 0 | 15: | 3 | 1.187 | | 2. Bulgaria | 4 | 0 | 12: | 6 | 1.082 | | 3. Serbia | 3 | 2 | 12: | 8 | 1.047 | | 4. Netherlands | 2 | 3 | 10: | 12 | 0.998 | | 5. Italy | 1 | 4 | 5: | 12 | 0.932 | | 6. Finland | 0 | 5 | 2: | 15 | 0.787 |
| Team | Ru | Bu | Se | Ne | It | Fi | | Russia | --- | 3:0 | 3:1 | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:0 | | Bulgaria | | --- | 3:2 | 3:1 | 3:0 | 3:0 | | Serbia | | | --- | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:0 | | Netherlands | | | | --- | 3:1 | 3:2 | | Italy | | | | | --- | 3:0 | | Finland | | | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | 08.09 | 15:00 | Russia | 3-1 | Serbia | 92-80 | 25-15 | 17-25 | 25-21 | 25-19 | | | 08.09 | 17:30 |  Netherlands | 3-1 |  Italy | 100-93 | 25-22 | 23-25 | 25-21 | 27-25 | | | 08.09 | 20:00 | Bulgaria | 3-0 |  Finland | 75-57 | 25-22 | 25-15 | 25-20 | | | 09.09 | 15:00 | Russia | 3-0 | Italy | 75-65 | 25-23 | 25-21 | 25-21 | | | 09.09 | 17:30 | Bulgaria | 3-1 | Netherlands | 100-90 | 25-15 | 26-24 | 21-25 | 28-26 | | | 09.09 | 20:00 | Serbia | 3-0 | Finland | 75-56 | 25-20 | 25-14 | 25-22 | | | 10.09 | 15:00 | Russia | 3-0 | Bulgaria | 75-66 | 25-21 | 25-23 | 25-22 | | | 10.09 | 17:30 | Italy | 3-0 | Finland | 79-69 | 27-25 | 25-19 | 27-25 | | | 10.09 | 20:00 | Serbia | 3-1 | Netherlands | 96-91 | 25-20 | 25-23 | 21-25 | 25-23 | |
The decisive game was Bulgria - Netherlands. Serbia paid the price loosing to Bulgaria in First Round.
Italy and Finland could not make any challenge.
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| Group A | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Poland | 3 | 0 | 9: | 2 | 1.211 | | 2. France | 2 | 1 | 7: | 4 | 1.077 | | 3. Germany | 1 | 2 | 5: | 8 | 0.904 | | 4. Turkey | 0 | 3 | 2: | 9 | 0.870 |
| Team | Po | Fr | Ge | Tu | | Poland | --- | 3:1 | 3:1 | 3:0 | | France | | --- | 3:1 | 3:0 | | Germany | | | --- | 3:2 | | Turkey | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | played at Izmir | | 03.09 | 17:30 | Poland | 3-1 | France | 93-82 | 18-25 | 25-17 | 25-22 | 25-18 | | | transferred to Group E | | 03.09 | 20:00 | Germany | 3-2 |  Turkey | 119-116 | 26-24 | 23-25 | 25-22 | 30-32 | 15-13 | | 04.09 | 17:30 | Poland | 3-1 | Germany | 102-83 | 25-17 | 25-23 | 27-29 | 25-14 | | | transferred to Group E | | 05.09 | 15:00 | France | 3-1 | Germany | 96-82 | 21-25 | 25-14 | 25-20 | 25-23 | | | transferred to Group E | | 05.09 | 20:00 | Poland | 3-0 | Turkey | 75-58 | 25-23 | 25-18 | 25-17 | | | 06.09 | 17:30 | France | 3-0 | Turkey | 75-60 | 25-16 | 25-21 | 25-23 | |
Poland won the Group with a relative easy. France did the same to finish Second. The host Turkey ended last with only a chance to win against Germany. Germany could not match the big expectation.
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| Group B | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Russia | 3 | 0 | 9: | 3 | 1.251 | | 2. Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 8: | 6 | 1.065 | | 3. Finland | 1 | 2 | 5: | 6 | 0.886 | | 4. Estonia | 0 | 3 | 2: | 9 | 0.830 |
| Team | Ru | Ne | Fi | Es | | Russia | --- | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:1 | | Netherlands | | --- | 3:2 | 3:1 | | Finland | | | --- | 3:0 | | Estonia | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | played at Istanbul | | 03.09 | 15:00 | Russia | 3-1 | Estonia | 95-75 | 20-25 | 25-17 | 25-18 | 25-15 | | | 03.09 | 20:00 | Netherlands | 3-2 | Finland | 118-107 | 25-21 | 22-25 | 28-30 | 25-15 | 18-16 | | transferred to Group F | | 04.09 | 17:30 | Netherlands | 3-1 | Estonia | 107-94 | 27-29 | 25-19 | 25-18 | 30-28 | | | 05.09 | 15:00 | Russia | 3-2 | Netherlands | 109-105 | 25-23 | 25-22 | 21-25 | 23-25 | 15-10 | | transferred to Group F | | 05.09 | 20:00 | Finland | 3-0 | Estonia | 75-61 | 25-18 | 25-22 | 25-21 | | | 06.09 | 17:30 | Russia | 3-0 | Finland | 75-43 | 25-12 | 25-14 | 25-17 | | | transferred to Group F |
Russia won with dificulty against Netherlands, but demolished Finland. Netherlands was in 2 five setters, a win and a defeat. The best supprted team Finland progreessed with a only win.
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| Group C | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Greece | 3 | 0 | 9: | 3 | 1.050 | | 2. Spain | 2 | 1 | 6: | 5 | 1.056 | | 3. Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 7: | 6 | 1.021 | | 4. Slovenia | 0 | 3 | 1: | 9 | 0.875 |
| Team | Gr | Sp | Sl | Sl | | Greece | --- | 3:0 | 3:2 | 3:1 | | Spain | | --- | 3:2 | 3:0 | | Slovakia | | | --- | 3:0 | | Slovenia | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | played at Izmir | | 03.09 | 15:00 | Spain | 3-0 |  Slovenia | 75-59 | 25-20 | 25-19 | 25-20 | | | 04.09 | 15:00 | Greece | 3-0 | Spain | 75-64 | 25-23 | 25-20 | 25-21 | | | transferred to Group E | | 04.09 | 20:00 | Slovakia | 3-0 | Slovenia | 80-69 | 25-20 | 25-21 | 30-28 | | | 05.09 | 17:30 | Greece | 3-2 | Slovakia | 110-113 | 19-25 | 30-28 | 25-23 | 21-25 | 15-12 | | transferred to Group E | | 06.09 | 15:00 | Greece | 3-1 | Slovenia | 108-102 | 34-32 | 26-24 | 23-25 | 25-21 | | | 06.09 | 20:00 | Spain | 3-2 | Slovakia | 105-97 | 25-18 | 21-25 | 25-18 | 19-25 | 15-11 | | transferred to Group E |
Greece surprised the European champion Spain. Slovakia battled for to 5 set defeats. Slovenia had no chance to win a game.
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| Group D | w | l | gf | ga | ratio | | 1. Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 9: | 3 | 1.120 | | 2. Serbia | 2 | 1 | 8: | 4 | 1.098 | | 3. Italy | 1 | 2 | 4: | 6 | 0.996 | | 4. Czechia | 0 | 3 | 1: | 9 | 0.790 |
| Team | Bu | Se | It | Cz | | Bulgaria | --- | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:1 | | Serbia | | --- | 3:1 | 3:0 | | Italy | | | --- | 3:0 | | Czechia | | | | --- |
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | | played at Istanbul | | 03.09 | 17:30 | Bulgaria | 3-2 | Serbia | 105-100 | 21-25 | 25-17 | 19-25 | 25-22 | 15-11 | | transferred to Group F | | 04.09 | 15:00 | Bulgaria | 3-0 | Italy | 76-68 | 26-24 | 25-22 | 25-22 | | | transferred to Group F | | 04.09 | 20:00 | Serbia | 3-0 |  Czechia | 76-60 | 25-22 | 26-24 | 25-14 | | | 05.09 | 17:30 | Italy | 3-0 | Czechia | 78-58 | 25-12 | 28-26 | 25-20 | | | 06.09 | 15:00 | Serbia | 3-1 | Italy | 94-81 | 25-23 | 19-25 | 25-12 | 25-21 | | | transferred to Group F | | 06.09 | 20:00 | Bulgaria | 3-1 | Czechia | 98-81 | 25-19 | 23-25 | 25-20 | 25-17 | |
Bulgaria won the Balkan derby. Italy could not match the best 2. The strong Czech atack was able to take only one set.
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| 1. Poland | BUL | FRA | | 3-0 | 3-1 | | 1. Piotr Nowakowski | | | | 3. Piotr Gruszka | 18 | 23 | | 4. Daniel Plinski | 6 | 8 | | 5. Pawel Zagumny | 3 | 1 | | 6. Bartosz Kurek | 17 | 11 | | 7. Jakub Jarosz | | | | 9. Zbigniew Bartman | | | | 12.Pawel Woicki | | | | 14.Michal Ruciak | | 5 | | 15.Piotr Gacek | | | | 17.Michal Bakiewicz | 4 | 10 | | 18.Marcin Mozdzonek | 10 | 7 | | Oponent Errors | 22 | 31 | | Total | 80 | 96 |
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| 1. France | RUS | POL | | 3-2 | 1-3 | | 1. Yannick Bazin | 5 | 1 | | 2. Hubert Henno | L | L | | 4. Antonin Rouzier | 24 | 25 | | 5. Romain Vadeleux | 10 | 13 | | 6. Jean-Philippe Sol | | | | 7. Stéphane Antiga | 14 | 14 | | 9. Guillaume Samica | 22 | 19 | | 10.Jean Stéphane Tolar | | | | 11.Edouard Rowlandson | 1 | | | 13.Toafa Takaniko | | | | 14.Samuele Tuia | 1 | | | 17.Oliver Kieffer | 4 | 6 | | Oponent Errors | 26 | 19 | | Total | 107 | 97 |
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| 3. Bulgaria | SRB | ITA | CZE | FIN | NED | RUS | POL | RUS | | 3-2 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 3-0 | | 1. Georgi Bratoev | | | | | | 1 | | | | 2. Hristo Tsvetanov | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | | 3. Andrey Zhekov | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | | 5. Krasimir Gaydarski | | | | | | | | | | 6. Matey Kaziyski | 4 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 11 | 14 | | 7. Tsvetan Sokolov | | | | | | 16 | 1 | 5 | | 9. Metodi Ananiev | | | | | | 2 | 4 | | | 10.Valentin Bratoev | | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 6 | | | 11.Vladimir Nikolov | 23 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 11 | | 12.Viktor Yosifov | 5 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 10 | | 13.Teodor Salparov | L | L | L | L | | L | L | L | | 15.Todor Aleksiev | 16 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 2 | | 1 | 14 | | Oponent Errors | 28 | 23 | 23 | 19 | | 23 | 12 | 17 | | Total | 105 | 76 | 98 | 75 | 100 | 66 | 67 | 76 |
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| 4. Russia | EST | BUL | FRA | BUL | | 3-1 | 3-0 | 2-3 | 0-3 | | 1. Denis Biryukov | 13 | 6 | | 3 | | 2. Semen Poltavskiy | 16 | 9 | 8 | 1 | | 3. Alexandr Kosarev | 13 | 2 | 10 | | | 4. Alexey Cheremisin | 5 | | - | - | | 5. Sergey Grankin | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | 7. Alexey Kazakov | - | 4 | 13 | 7 | | 8. Sergey Tetyukhin | | 6 | 2 | 3 | | 9. Vadim Khamuttskikh | 1 | | | | | 10.Yury Berezhko | 2 | 10 | 17 | 15 | | 15.Alexander Volkov | 13 | 10 | 9 | 8 | | 16.Alexey Verbov | L | L | L | L | | 17.Maxim Mikhaylov | | 6 | 18 | 11 | | 18.Alexey Kuleshov | 10 | - | | | | Oponent Errors | 21 | 19 | 27 | 13 | | Total | 95 | 75 | 107 | 63 |
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| 5. Serbia | BUL | | 2-3 | | 1. Nikola Kovacevic | 9 | | 4. Bojan Janic | 2 | | 5. Vlado Petkovic | | | 6. Milos Terzic | | | 7. Dragan Stankovic | 10 | | 8. Marko Samardzic | L | | 9. Nikola Grbic | 6 | | 10.Milos Nikic | 4 | | 14.Ivan Miljkovic | 35 | | 15.Sasa Starovic | | | 12.Andrija Geric | | | 18.Marko Podrascanin | 7 | | Oponent Errors | 27 | | Total | 100 |
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| 6. Germany | TUR | | 3-2 | | 6. Germany | | Björn Andrae | | Eugen Bakumovski | | Marcus BÖhme | | György Grozer | | Max GÜnthÖr | | Robert Kromm | | Jochen SchÖps | | Sebastian Schwarz | | Patrick Steuerwald | | Ferdinand Tille | | Simon Tischer | | Georg Wiebel | | Oponent Errors | | Total |
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| 7. |2Netherlands | BUL | | 1-3 | | Rob Johannes Bontje | 11 | | Robert Horstink | 20 | | Neals Klapwijk | 5 | | Wytze Kooistra | 3 | | Lars Lorsheijd | 6 | | Jelte Maan | L | | Jeroen Rauwerdink | 12 | | Jan-Willem Snippe | | | Jeroen Trommel | | | Kay Van Dijk | 8 | | Dirk-Jan Van Gendt | | | Yannick Van Harskamp | 1 |
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| 8. Greece | | Andreas Andreadis | | Apostolos Armenakis | | Tontor-Zlatkov Baev | | Konstantinos Christofidelis | | Vasileios Kournetas | | Ilias Lappas | | Sotirios Pantaleon | | Achilleas Papadimitriou | | Konstantinos Prousalis | | Nikolaos Roumeliotis | | Nikolaos Smaragdis | | Mitar Tzourits |
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| 9. Spain | | Juan Carlos Barcala | | Guillermo Falasca | | Miguel Angel Falasca | | Julian Garcia-Torres | | Guillermo Hernan | | Francesc Llenas | | Jose Luis Lobato | | Jose Luis Molto | | Sergio Noda | | Marlon Rafael Palharini | | Israel Rodriguez | | Alberto Salas |
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| 10.Italy | | Emanuele Birarelli | | Matej Cernic | | Alberto Cisolla | | Francesco Fortunato | | Mauro Gavotto | | Michal Lasko | | Loris Mania | | Matteo Martino | | Simone Parodi | | Cristian Savani | | Dragan Travica | | Valerio Vermiglio |
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| 11.Slovakia | | Milan Bencz | | Lukas Divis | | Tomas Kmet | | Emanuel Kohut | | Matej Kubs | | Michal Masny | | Martin Nemec | | Frantisek Ogurcak | | Jozef Piovarci | | Martin Pipa | | Martin Sopko | | Juraj Zatko |
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| 12.Finland | | Mikko Esko | | Matti Hietanen | | Pasi HyvÄrinen | | Olli Kunnari | | Jukka Lehtonen | | Matti Oivanen | | Mikko Oivanen | | Olli-Pekka Ojansivu | | Simo-Pekka Olli | | Tuomas Sammelvuo | | Konstantin Shumov | | Antti Siltala |
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| 13.Turkey | | Can Ayvazoglu | | Emre Batur | | Ali Alp Cayir | | Erhan DÜnge | | Arslan Eksi | | Volkan GÜc | | Selçuk Keskin | | Akif Gökhan Öner | | Ahmet Pezuk | | Sinan Cem Tanik | | Ahmet Tocoglu | | Hasan Yesilbudak |
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| 14.Estonia | RUS | | 1. Raimo Pajusalu | | | 2. Keith Pupart | 9 | | 4. Ardo Kreek | 8 | | 5. Kert Toobal | 5 | | 6. Sten Esna | L | | 7. Argo Meresaar | 10 | | 10.Asko Esna | & | | 12.Janis Sirelpuu | 1 | | 13.Veiko Lember | & | | 16.Eerik Jago | 1 | | 17.Martti Rosenblatt | 1 | | 18.Jaanus Nommsalu | 10 | | Opponent Errors | 30 |
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| 15.Slovenia | | Davor Cebron | | Jasmin Cuturic | | Andrej Flajs | | Mitja Gasparini | | Alen Pajenk | | Matija Plesko | | Alen Sket | | Sebastijan Skorc | | Tomislav Smuc | | Tine Urnaut | | Matej Vidic | | Dejan Vincic |
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| 16.Czechia | | Ales Holubec | | Ondrej Hudecek | | David Konecny | | Martin Krystof | | Martin Lebl | | Marek Novotny | | Peter Platenik | | Jiri Popelka | | Jaroslav Skach | | Jan Stokr | | Lukas Tichacek | | Jakub Vesely |
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