The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship is the sixteenth edition of the

FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship is the world championship of volleyball for female players under the age of 19 organized by ''Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' ( FIVB). It was held in U18 age group until 2021. The fir ...

, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 18 of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in

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from 5 to 14 September 2019. Egypt were chosen as the hosts for this event for the first time. The finals involve 20 teams, of which 19 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 20 teams, 13 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while

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and

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made their first appearances at a FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The

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won the first title, after defeated Italy 3–2 in final.

Qualification

A total of 20 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Egypt who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 19 teams qualify from five separate continental competitions. :1.Teams that will make their debut.

Draw

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the

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according to their

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as of 1 January 2019. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines following the World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in

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on 1 July 2019. Rankings as of 1 January 2019 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Egypt who ranked 14th.

Pools composition

Squads

Venues

Referees

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other. Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

*All times are

Egypt Standard Time Egypt Standard Time (EGY) ( ''Tawqīt Miṣr al-qiyāsiyy'') is UTC+02:00, which is equivalent to Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time and Central European Summer Time, and is co-linear with neighbouring Lib ...

( UTC+02:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

17th–20th places

Final sixteen

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

9th–16th places

9th–16th quarterfinals

13th–16th semifinals

9th–12th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *: Jessica Mruzik *Best setter *: Kennedi Orr *Best outside spikers *: Ana Cristina de Souza *: Oghosasere Omoruyi *Best middle blockers *: Devyn Robinson *: Emma Graziani *Best opposite spiker: *:

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*Best libero *: Zhu Xingchen

References

External links

Official website
{{Portal bar, Volleyball, Sports FIVB Girls' U18 Volleyball World Championship

International volleyball competitions hosted by Egypt 2019 in Egyptian sport