The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League was the second edition of the

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, an annual international women's

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tournament contested by 16 national teams. The competition was held between May and July 2019, and for the second time, the final round took place in the

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, China.

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won their second title in the competition, defeating

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in five sets on the final, after being 0–2 down. China defeated

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in four sets for the bronze medal. Andrea Drews from USA was elected the

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. Following the results of the 2018 Nations League and 2018 Challenger Cup,

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was replaced by debutants

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in this edition. Accordingly, following the results of this edition of the Nations League and the 2019 Challenger Cup, Bulgaria was replaced by newcomers

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in the 2021 edition.

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. The other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.

replaced

after winning the 2018 Challenger Cup.

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, for 120 matches. The top five teams after the preliminary round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round. The relegation takes into consideration only the 4 challenger teams. The last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2020 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 each other in the third place match.

Pool composition

The overview of pools was released on October 23, 2018.

Preliminary round

Final round

Venues

The list of host cities and venues was announced on March 26, 2019.

Preliminary round

Final round

Competition schedule

Pool standing procedure

# Total number of victories (matches won, matches 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 25 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 2019 standings
'

Week 1

Pool 1

*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 2

*All times are

Eastern European Summer Time Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European and Middle Eastern countries, which makes ...

( UTC+03:00).

Pool 3

*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).

Pool 4

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Week 2

Pool 5

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Pool 6

*All times are

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( UTC+03:00).

Pool 7

*All times are Macau Standard Time ( UTC+08:00).

Pool 8

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Week 3

Pool 9

*All times are Hong Kong Time ( UTC+08:00).

Pool 10

*All times are Central Summer Time ( UTC−05:00).

Pool 11

*All times are

Thailand Standard Time Thailand follows UTC+07:00, which is 7 hours ahead of UTC. The local mean time in Bangkok was originally UTC+06:42:04. Thailand used this local mean time until 1920, when it changed to Indochina Time, UTC+07:00; ICT is used all year round as Thai ...

( UTC+07:00).

Pool 12

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Week 4

Pool 13

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Pool 14

*All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Pool 15

*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 16

*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).

Week 5

Pool 17

*All times are

( UTC+03:00).

Pool 18

*All times are

( UTC+08:00).

Pool 19

*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 20

*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).

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+08:00).

Pool play

Pool A

Pool B

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

''Source
VNL 2019 final standings
'

Awards

Drews and USA at the 2019 FIVB Women's World Cup (cropped)

* Most Valuable Player : * Best Setter : * Best Outside Hitters : : * Best Middle Blockers : : * Best Opposite : * Best Libero :

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Final round

References

External links

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
– official website
FIVB Volleyball Nations' League
– official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Volleyball, Nations' League, Women, 2019

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Qualification

Format

Preliminary round

Final round

Pool composition

Preliminary round

Final round

Venues

Preliminary round

Final round

Competition schedule

Pool standing procedure

Squads

Preliminary round

Ranking

Week 1

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

Week 2

Pool 5

Pool 6

Pool 7

Pool 8

Week 3

Pool 9

Pool 10

Pool 11

Pool 12

Week 4

Pool 13

Pool 14

Pool 15

Pool 16

Week 5

Pool 17

Pool 18

Pool 19

Pool 20

Final round

Pool play

Pool A

Pool B

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Final round

See also

References

External links