Kammala wannan jumla: Wasannin neman cancantar gasar zakarun Turai na wasan kwallon raga na maza na shekarar 1997 shi ne wasan neman cancantar gasar karo na 20, wanda aka shirya a Eindhoven da Den Bosch, Netherlands daga ranar 6 ga Satumba zuwa 14 ga Satumba, 1997, kuma hukumar kula da wasan kwallon raga ta Turai, European Volleyball Confederation ta shirya. An buga wasannin neman shiga gasar a shekarar 1996 da 1997. Netherlands sun cancanci zama masu karɓar bakuncin yayin da Italiya, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria da Rasha suka cancanci samun damar shiga daga gasar zakarun Turai.
1995 na gasar zakarun Turai na wasan kwallon raga na maza. Gwanayen rukuni biyar da ƙungiyoyi biyu daga zagaye na gabatarwa sun cancanci shiga gasar 1997.