2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

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2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Copa Challenger de Femenino
Perú 2018
Tournament details
Host nationPeru
CityLima
Dates20–24 June
Teams6
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
ChampionsFile:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria (1st title)
Runners-upFile:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia
Third placeFile:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico
Fourth placeFile:Flag of Peru.svg Peru
Tournament statistics
Best scorerColombia Dayana Segovia (78 points)
Best spikerColombia Dayana Segovia (39.41%)
Best blockerBulgaria Hristina Ruseva (1.54 Avg)
Best serverPeru Diana Dela Peña (0.43 Avg)
Best setterColombia María Marín (31.14 Avg)
Best diggerPeru Esmeralda Sanchez (4.43 Avg)
Best receiverBulgaria Zhana Todorova (32.76%)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup
First

The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League.[1][2][3] The tournament was held in Lima, Peru between 20 and 24 June.[4] Bulgaria won the title, defeating Colombia in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing Argentina, the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition.[5] Puerto Rico defeated Peru in the third place match.[5]

Qualification

Six teams will compete in the tournament.[1]

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australiaa AVC Asian qualifier 3rd place[6] 20 May 2018 0 None None
File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico NORCECA North American qualifier champions[7] 20 May 2018 0 None None
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombiab CSV South American qualifier runner-up 27 May 2018 0 None None
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru CSV Host country 15 June 2018 0 None None
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria CEV 2018 Golden League champions[8] 17 June 2018 0 None None
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary CEV 2018 Golden League runner-up[8] 17 June 2018 0 None None
Note
^a Australia replaced Kazakhstan, the Asian qualifier winners, who withdrew from the tournament.[9]
^b Originally, a CSV representative was to face a team from Africa in a playoff for a spot in the Challenger Cup. According to the Chilean Volleyball Federation (FEVOCHI), however, FIVB fined the African Volleyball Confederation for not hosting any kind of qualifier event.[10]

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of August 2017.[11] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts who ranked 26th.

Pool A Pool B
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru (Host) File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico (13)
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia (28) File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria (17)
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (30) File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia (42)

Venue

All matches
Lima, Peru
Coliseo Eduardo Dibos
Capacity: 4,600

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 2 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 151 87 1.736 Final round
2 File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 2 1 1 3 3 3 1.000 126 127 0.992
3 File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 2 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 90 153 0.588
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun 19:00 Peru File:Flag of Peru.svg 0–3 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 24–26 12–25 12–25     48–76 Report
21 Jun 19:00 Colombia File:Flag of Colombia.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 25–13 25–19 25–7     75–39 Report
22 Jun 19:00 Hungary File:Flag of Hungary.svg 0–3 File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 14–25 11–25 26–28     51–78 Report

Pool B

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1 File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 2 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 92 1.630 Final round
2 File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 2 1 1 3 3 3 1.000 125 119 1.050
3 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 2 0 2 0 0 6 0.000 86 150 0.573
Source: [citation needed]
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
20 Jun 17:00 Bulgaria File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 25–11 25–16 25–15     75–42 P2 Report
21 Jun 17:00 Puerto Rico File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 25–10 25–19 25–15     75–44 Report
22 Jun 17:00 Bulgaria File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 25–18 25–18 25–14     75–50 Report

Final round

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
23 June – Lima
 
 
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia3
 
24 June – Lima
 
File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico1
 
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia1
 
23 June – Lima
 
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria3
 
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria3
 
 
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru0
 
3rd place match
 
 
24 June – Lima
 
 
File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico3
 
 
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru2

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
23 June 16:00 Colombia File:Flag of Colombia.svg 3–1 File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 23–25 27–25 25–10 25–18   100–78 Report
23 June 18:00 Bulgaria File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 25–21 25–22 25–18     75–61 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 June 17:00 Puerto Rico File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg 3–2 File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 22–25 25–15 21–25 25–17 16–14 109–96 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
24 June 19:00 Colombia File:Flag of Colombia.svg 1–3 File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 25–22 19–25 20–25 23–25   87–97 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "FIVB Executive Committee embraces digital transformation". FIVB. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  2. "FIVB: Nasce la Volleyball Challenger Cup" (in italian). Volleyball.it. 9 December 2017. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. "FIVB Announces Challenger Cup, Will Align With Nations League". Volleyball.it. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  4. "ALL SET FOR FINAL SIX AS WOMEN'S VNL POOL PLAY CONCLUDES". FIVB. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Bulgaria amongst volleyball's cream for 2019 Women's VNL". FIVB. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  6. "AVC Continental Qualifications for FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup – Women's Results". AVC. Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  7. "2018 Norceca Women Volleyball Nation League Challenge Cup Final Continental Qualification Tournament". NORCECA. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Hungary and Bulgaria to lock horns in Golden #EuroLeagueW 'grand finale'". CEV. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  9. "VOLLEYROOS WOMEN GET LATE SECOND CHANCE". Volleyball Australia. 14 June 2018. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  10. "CHILE CLASIFICA DIRECTO A LA CHALLENGER CUP" (in spanish). Federación de Voleibol de Chile. Retrieved 8 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  11. "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Women (as of August 2017)". FIVB. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

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