Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's African qualification
# Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's African qualification

The African Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a volleyball tournament for men's national teams held in Cairo, Egypt from 7 to 11 January 2020. 5 teams played in the tournament and the winners Tunisia qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

## Qualification

Seven CAVB national teams which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics entered qualification. But, Botswana and Niger later withdrew. In addition, Ghana were disqualified for not arriving in Cairo until just before the beginning of the tournament. All of Ghana's matches were forfeited and Ghana were ranked in last place in the final standing.

* Algeria
* Botswana (withdrew)
* Cameroon
* Egypt
* Ghana (Disqualified)
* Niger (withdrew)
* Tunisia

## Venue

* Cairo Stadium Indoor Hall 2, Cairo, Egypt

## Pool standing procedure

* Number of matches won
* Match points
* Sets ratio
* Points ratio
* Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

## Round robin

* All times are Egypt Standard Time (UTC+02:00).
* Ghana's forfeited matches (25–0, 25–0, 25–0) were not recorded and excluded from the ranking calculation.

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tunisia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 9.000 | 255 | 208 | 1.226 |
| 2 | Egypt | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1.500 | 235 | 211 | 1.114 |
| 3 | Algeria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0.833 | 241 | 246 | 0.980 |
| 4 | Cameroon | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.000 | 159 | 225 | 0.707 |
| 5 | Ghana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Total | Report |
| 7 Jan | 20:15 | Egypt | 3–1 | Algeria | 25–18 | 25–17 | 21–25 | 25–20 | 96–80 | P2 |
| 8 Jan | 20:00 | Cameroon | 0–3 | Tunisia | 20–25 | 20–25 | 18–25 | | 58–75 | P2 |
| 9 Jan | 17:00 | Cameroon | 0–3 | Algeria | 16–25 | 16–25 | 17–25 | | 49–75 | P2 |
| 9 Jan | 20:00 | Egypt | 0–3 | Tunisia | 27–29 | 14–25 | 23–25 | | 64–79 | P2 |
| 10 Jan | 20:00 | Tunisia | 3–1 | Algeria | 25–17 | 25–23 | 26–28 | 25–18 | 101–86 | P2 |
| 11 Jan | 20:00 | Cameroon | 0–3 | Egypt | 16–25 | 18–25 | 18–25 | | 52–75 | P2 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| - | - |
| 1 | Tunisia |
| 2 | Egypt |
| 3 | Algeria |
| 4 | Cameroon |
| 5 | Ghana |

* Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

## Qualifying team for Summer Olympics

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics |
| - | - | - |
| Tunisia | 10 January 2020 | 6 (1972, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2012) |

* ↑ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
