2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Copa Challenger de Femenino
Perú 2019
Tournament details
Host nationPeru
CityLima
Dates26–30 June
Teams6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Canada (1st title)
Runners-up Czech Republic
Third place Argentina
Fourth place Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Attendance6,600 (660 per match)
Best scorerCanada Alexa Lea Gray (77 points)
Best spikerCanada Alexa Lea Gray (51.49%)
Best blockerCanada Emily Maglio (0.93 Avg)
Best serverCroatia Samanta Fabris (0.57 Avg)
Best setterPeru Zoila La Rosa (6.00 Avg)
Best diggerPeru Vanessa Palacios (4.63 Avg)
Best receiverArgentina Tatiana Rizzo (27.69%)
Official website
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]

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

Main article: 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Canada NORCECA North American Qualifier champions[3] 2 June 2019 0 None None
 Chinese Taipei AVC 1st World ranked team from AVC 12 June 2019 0 None None
 Argentinaa CSV 1st World ranked team from CSV 12 June 2019 0 None None
 Peru CSV Host country 17 June 2019 1 2018 4th place (2018)
 Czech Republic CEV 2019 Golden League champions 22 June 2019 0 None None
 Croatia CEV 2019 Golden League runner-up 22 June 2019 0 None None
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 A Pool B
 Peru (Hosts)  Argentina (11)
 Czech Republic (24)  Canada (18)
 Croatia (30)  Chinese Taipei (33)

Squads

Main article: 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup 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

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Czech Republic 2 2 0 6 6 2 3.000 194 160 1.213 Semifinals
2  Croatia 2 1 1 3 4 4 1.000 168 189 0.889
3  Peru 2 0 2 0 2 6 0.333 186 199 0.935
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
26 Jun 20:00 Peru  1–3  Croatia 23–25 25–19 17–25 29–31   94–100 P2 Report
27 Jun 20:00 Czech Republic  3–1  Croatia 20–25 25–12 25–16 25–15   95–68 P2 Report
28 Jun 20:00 Peru  1–3  Czech Republic 25–27 25–22 21–25 21–25   92–99 P2 Report

Pool B

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Canada 2 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 116 1.293 Semifinals
2  Argentina 2 1 1 3 3 3 1.000 142 140 1.014
3  Chinese Taipei 2 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 114 150 0.760
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
26 Jun 17:00 Argentina  3–0  Chinese Taipei 25–22 25–22 25–21     75–65 P2 Report
27 Jun 17:00 Canada  3–0  Chinese Taipei 25–16 25–17 25–16     75–49 P2 Report
28 Jun 17:00 Argentina  0–3  Canada 23–25 21–25 23–25     67–75 P2 Report

Final round

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
29 June – Lima
 
 
 Czech Republic3
 
30 June – Lima
 
 Argentina0
 
 Czech Republic2
 
29 June – Lima
 
 Canada3
 
 Canada3
 
 
 Croatia0
 
3rd place match
 
 
30 June – Lima
 
 
 Argentina3
 
 
 Croatia0

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
29 Jun 17:00 Czech Republic  3–0  Argentina 25–16 25–19 25–23     75–58 P2 Report
29 Jun 20:00 Canada  3–0  Croatia 25–18 25–20 26–24     76–62 P2 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jun 16:00 Argentina  3–0  Croatia 25–19 25–18 25–14     75–51 P2 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jun 19:00 Czech Republic  2–3  Canada 17–25 16–25 25–21 25–23 8–15 91–109 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.