The 2011 Women's European Volleyball League was the third edition of the annual

Women's European Volleyball League The Women's European Volleyball League is a continental volleyball competition for senior women's national volleyball teams of Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation ( CEV). Created in 2009, the competition served as a qualify ...

, which featured Women's national volleyball teams from twelve European countries:

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, and

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. A preliminary league round was played from May 25 to July 10, and the final four tournament, which was held at

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, on 15/16 July. During the league round, competing nations were drawn into two pools of four teams, and played each other in a double round-robin system, with two matches per leg in a total of six legs. Pool winners qualified for the final four round, joining the host team. If the final four host team finished first in its league round pool, the best pool runners-up qualified for the final four. 12 teams participated in this year's edition, which was a record field.

Competing nations

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Squads

League round

Pool A

Leg 1

Leg 2

Leg 3

Leg 4

Leg 5

Leg 6

Pool B

Leg 1

Leg 2

Leg 3

Leg 4

Leg 5

Leg 6

Pool C

Leg 1

Leg 2

Leg 3

Leg 4

Leg 5

Leg 6

Final four

The final four will be held at

on July 15/16, 2011. ;Qualified teams: * * * * (host)

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*MVP:

Jovana Brakočević Jovana Brakočević Canzian ( sr-Cyrl, Јована Бракочевић Канцијан; born 5 March 1988) is a Serbian volleyball player, who was a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the silver medal at the 2016 S ...

*Best scorer: Helena Havelková *Best spiker:

*Best server: Eda Erdem *Best setter:

Maja Ognjenović Maja Ognjenović ( sr-Cyrl, Маја Огњеновић; born 6 August 1984) is a Serbian professional volleyball player of the Serbia women's national volleyball team and a two-time Olympic medalist. She is a five-time Olympian at the setter pos ...

*Best libero:

Gizem Güreşen Gizem Güreşen (born 14 January 1987) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is tall and plays as libero. Club career She started volleyball in Ankara. She was trained in the infrastructure of VakıfBank Güneş Sigorta. VakıfBank Gizem Güre� ...

*Best receiver: Šárka Barborková

References

External links

Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV) – official website
{{European Volleyball League Women's European Volleyball League

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