2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

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2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
Tournament details
Host nationFrance
CityLaval
Dates27–30 July
Teams8 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
ChampionsFile:Flag of France.svg France (1st title)
Runners-upFile:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Third placeFile:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia
Fourth placeFile:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Attendance7,858 (982 per match)
Best scorerSweden Isabelle Haak (92 points)
Best spikerSweden Isabelle Haak (45.30%)
Best blockerUkraine Anastasiia Maievska (3.00 Avg)
Best serverFrance Nina Stojiljković (2.00 Avg)
Best setterFrance Nina Stojiljković (17.33 Avg)
Best diggerFrance Héléna Cazaute (16.33 Avg)
Best receiverColombia Amanda Coneo (24.51%)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the fourth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held at Espace Mayenne in Laval, France, between 27 and 30 July 2023.[1][2] Five teams made their first appearance in the women's Challenger Cup in this edition: Kenya, Mexico, Sweden, Ukraine and Vietnam. The host France won the title, defeating Sweden in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2024 Nations League replacing Croatia, the last placed challenger team in the 2023 edition. Colombia defeated Ukraine in the 3rd place match.[3]

Qualification

A total of 8 teams qualified for the tournament.

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya CAVB Highest ranked in CAVB — 0 None None
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia CSV Highest ranked in CSV — 2 2018 2022 Runners-up (2018)
File:Flag of France.svg France CEV Host country 1 June 2023[1] 1 2022 5th place (2022)
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico NORCECA 2022 NORCECA International League Final Four champions[4] 19 June 2022 0 None None
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam AVC 2023 Asian Challenge Cup champions 25 June 2023 0 None None
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine CEV 2023 European Golden League champions 28 June 2023 0 None None
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden CEV 2023 European Golden League runners-up 28 June 2023 0 None None
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia CEV 2023 Nations League last placed challenger team 2 July 2023 2 2019 2022 Champions (2022)

Format

The tournament will compete in the knock-out format (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final) with the host country (France) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team. The remaining six teams are placed from 2nd to 7th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 10 July 2023.[5] Rankings are shown in brackets except the host.

Match Top ranker Bottom ranker
Quarterfinal 1 File:Flag of France.svg France (Hosts) File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam (47)
Quarterfinal 2 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia (17) File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya (29)
Quarterfinal 3 File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico (19) File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (28)
Quarterfinal 4 File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine (20) File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia (25)

Venue

All matches
Laval, France
Espace Mayenne
Capacity: 4,500
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Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
27 Jul 17:00 France File:Flag of France.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam 25–20 25–16 25–17     75–53 P2 Report
27 Jul 20:30 Ukraine File:Flag of Ukraine.svg 3–1 File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia 25–15 25–15 18–25 25–19   93–74 P2 Report
28 Jul 17:00 Mexico File:Flag of Mexico.svg 2–3 File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 25–20 25–19 20–25 22–25 5–15 97–104 P2 Report
28 Jul 20:30 Colombia File:Flag of Colombia.svg 3–1 File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya 25–22 21–25 25–23 25–19   96–89 P2 Report

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
29 Jul 17:00 France File:Flag of France.svg 3–0 File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 25–10 25–20 25–22     75–52 P2 Report
29 Jul 20:30 Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 3–1 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 25–17 25–17 22–25 25–17   97–76 P2 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul 13:30 Ukraine File:Flag of Ukraine.svg 1–3 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 23–25 25–12 24–26 22–25   94–88 P2 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul 17:00 France File:Flag of France.svg 3–1 File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 25–21 25–16 22–25 25–15   97–77 P2 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Challenger Cup 2023". FF Volley. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Challenger Cup : Le plateau est connu" [Challenger Cup: The field is known]. FF Volley (in français). 30 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "France's women to play in VNL 2024 before hosting Olympics". Vollleyball World. 30 July 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Mexico qualifies to FIVB Challenger Cup winning NORCECA Final Four". norceca.info. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Competition Formula". Volleyball World. Retrieved 28 June 2023.

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