The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League was the inaugural edition of the
FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League
The FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place between May a ...
, a new annual international women's
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former
World Grand Prix in the international calendar.
The competition was held between May and July 2018, and the final round took place in the
Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre
The Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium () is used mostly for football as well as for other sport of athletics. It is located in Hexi New Town, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, and covers an area of 89.6 hectares, with a total construction area of about ...
,
Nanjing
Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...
, China.
Six-time World Grand Prix winners,
United States
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won the inaugural edition, defeating
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
in five sets on the final. This was Turkey's first ever final on a senior world-level premier competition (
World Championship
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,
World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
,
Summer Olympic Games and the aforementioned Grand Prix). Reigning Olympic champions and host nation,
China defeated 12-time Grand Prix champions
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
in straight sets for the bronze medal.
Michelle Bartsch-Hackley
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from USA was elected the
MVP
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.
Argentina
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was the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and will be replaced by
Challenger Cup winners
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
in the
2019 edition.
Qualification
Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.
Format
Preliminary round
The 16 teams compete in a
round-robin format with every core team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, with a total of 120 matches. The top five teams after the league round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round.
[ The relegation takes in consideration only the 4 challenger teams and the last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.
]
Final round
The six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations League title. The losers face in the third place match.
Pools composition
The overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018.[
]
Preliminary round
Final round
Venues
The list of host cities and venues was announced on February 16, 2018.[
]
Preliminary round
Final round
Competition schedule
Pool standing procedure
# Total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
# In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
#*Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
#*Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
#*Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
# If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
#*Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
#*Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
#*If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Squads
The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.
Preliminary round
Ranking
''Source
VNL 2018 standings
'
Week 1
Pool 1
*All times are Yekaterinburg Time
Yekaterinburg Time (YEKT) is the time zone five hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+05:00) and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time (MSK+2).
In 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time. Instead of switching between UTC+05:00 in winter and UTC+06:0 ...
( UTC+05:00).
Pool 2
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called ''Beijing T ...
( UTC+08:00).
Pool 3
*All times are Central Summer Time ( UTC-05:00).
Pool 4
*All times are Brasília time
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00.
Time zones
Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−0 ...
( UTC−03:00).
Week 2
Pool 5
*All times are Japan Standard Time
, or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to ...
( UTC+09:00).
Pool 6
*All times are Korea Standard Time
South Korea has one time zone, Korea Standard Time ( UTC+09:00), which is abbreviated KST. South Korea currently does not observe daylight saving time, but experimented with it during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
History
In 1434, inventor ...
( UTC+09:00).
Pool 7
*All times are Macau Standard Time ( UTC+08:00).
Pool 8
*All times are Further-eastern European Time
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Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be wri ...
( UTC+03:00).
Week 3
Pool 9
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 10
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 11
*All times are Indochina Time
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( UTC+07:00).
Pool 12
*All times are Hong Kong Time ( UTC+08:00).
Week 4
Pool 13
*All times are Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time ...
( UTC+02:00).
Pool 14
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called ''Beijing T ...
( UTC+08:00).
Pool 15
*All times are Indochina Time
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( UTC+07:00).
Pool 16
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 5
Pool 17
*All times are Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time ...
( UTC+02:00).
Pool 18
*All times are Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time ...
( UTC+02:00).
Pool 19
*All times are Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time ...
( UTC+02:00).
Pool 20
*All times are Argentina Standard Time ( UTC-03:00).
Final round
*Venue: Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Nanjing
Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...
, China
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called ''Beijing T ...
( UTC+08:00).
Pool play
Pool A
Pool B
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
''Source
VNL 2018 final standings
'
Awards
* Most Valuable Player
:
* Best Setter
:
* Best Outside Hitters
:
:
* Best Middle Blockers
:
:
* Best Opposite
:
* Best Libero
:
Statistics leaders
Preliminary round
'
Final round
'
See also
*2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League
The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, a new annual international men's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World League in t ...
*2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup
The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB ...
References
External links
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
– official website
FIVB Volleyball Nations League
– official website
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