The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the second edition of the

FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup The FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was 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 Challenger Cup served as a qualifying tou ...

, an annual women's international

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tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the

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. The tournament was held in

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won the title, defeating the

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in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing

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, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition.

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defeated

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in the 3rd place match. On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to

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. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

Qualification

Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the

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according to their

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as of 21 October 2018. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 27th.

Squads

Venue

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Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # Result of the last match between the tied teams 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

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( UTC-05:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC-05:00).

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

References

External links

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
– official website
FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup
– official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Volleyball, Challenger Cup, Women, 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup FIVB FIVB FIVB International volleyball competitions hosted by Peru Sports competitions in Lima 2010s in Lima