2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

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2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Copa Challenger de Femenino
Perú 2019
Tournament details
Host nationPeru
City Lima
Dates26–30 June
Teams6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
ChampionsFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada (1st title)
Runners-upFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Third placeFlag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Fourth placeFlag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance6,600 (660 per match)
Best scorer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Alexa Lea Gray (77 points)
Best spiker Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Alexa Lea Gray (51.49%)
Best blocker Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Emily Maglio (0.93 Avg)
Best server Flag of Croatia.svg Samanta Fabris (0.57 Avg)
Best setter Flag of Peru.svg Zoila La Rosa (6.00 Avg)
Best digger Flag of Peru.svg Vanessa Palacios (4.63 Avg)
Best receiver Flag of Argentina.svg Tatiana Rizzo (27.69%)
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Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru. [1]

Contents

Canada won the title, defeating the Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Bulgaria, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition. Argentina defeated Croatia in the 3rd place match. [2]

On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

Qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

CountryConfederationQualified asQualified onPrevious appearancesPrevious best performance
TotalFirstLast
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada NORCECA North American Qualifier champions [3] 2 June 20190NoneNone
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei AVC 1st World ranked team from AVC 12 June 20190NoneNone
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina a CSV 1st World ranked team from CSV 12 June 20190NoneNone
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru CSV Host country 17 June 20191 2018 4th place (2018)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic CEV 2019 Golden League champions 22 June 20190NoneNone
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia CEV 2019 Golden League runner-up 22 June 20190NoneNone
Note
^a No team from African Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 21 October 2018. [4] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 27th.

Pool APool B
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru (Hosts)Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina (11)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic (24)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada (18)
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia (30)Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei (33)

Squads

Venue

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. 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

Preliminary round

Pool A

PosTeamPldWLPtsSWSLSRSPWSPLSPRQualification
1Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2206623.0001941601.213 Semifinals
2Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2113441.0001681890.889
3Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 2020260.3331861990.935
Source: [ citation needed ]
DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
26 Jun20:00 Peru  Flag of Peru.svg1–3Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 23–2525–1917–2529–31 94–100 P2 Report
27 Jun20:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg3–1Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 20–2525–1225–1625–15 95–68 P2 Report
28 Jun20:00 Peru  Flag of Peru.svg1–3Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 25–2725–2221–2521–25 92–99 P2 Report

Pool B

PosTeamPldWLPtsSWSLSRSPWSPLSPRQualification
1Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 220660MAX1501161.293 Semifinals
2Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2113331.0001421401.014
3Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2020060.0001141500.760
Source: [ citation needed ]
DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
26 Jun17:00 Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg3–0Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 25–2225–2225–21  75–65 P2 Report
27 Jun17:00 Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg3–0Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 25–1625–1725–16  75–49 P2 Report
28 Jun17:00 Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg0–3Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 23–2521–2523–25  67–75 P2 Report

Final round

 
Semifinals Final
 
      
 
29 June – Lima
 
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3
 
30 June – Lima
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 0
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2
 
29 June – Lima
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3
 
 
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 0
 
3rd place match
 
 
30 June – Lima
 
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 3
 
 
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 0

Semifinals

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
29 Jun17:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg3–0Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 25–1625–1925–23  75–58 P2 Report
29 Jun20:00 Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg3–0Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 25–1825–2026–24  76–62 P2 Report

3rd place match

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
30 Jun16:00 Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg3–0Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 25–1925–1825–14  75–51 P2 Report

Final

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
30 Jun19:00 Czech Republic  Flag of the Czech Republic.svg2–3Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 17–2516–2525–2125–238–1591–109 P2 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. "PERU WILL HOST WOMEN'S CHALLENGER CUP" (in Spanish). FPV. 17 June 2019. Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. "Year in Review: Slovenia men, Canada women join VNL elite". FIVB. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. "2019 Norceca Women Volleyball Nation League Challenge Cup Final Continental Qualification Tournament". NORCECA. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Women (as of 21 October 2018)". FIVB. 21 October 2018.