The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the second edition of the
FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
The FIVB Women's Volleyball 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 ...
, an annual international women's
volleyball
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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
Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre
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,
Nanjing
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Situated in the Yang ...
, China.
United States
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won their second title in the competition, defeating
Brazil
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in five sets on the final, after being 0–2 down.
China
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defeated
Turkey
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in four sets for the bronze medal.
Andrea Drews
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from USA was elected the
MVP
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.
Following the results of the
2018 Nations League and
2018 Challenger Cup,
Argentina
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was replaced by debutants
Bulgaria
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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
Canada
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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.
Bulgaria
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replaced
Argentina
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after winning the 2018 Challenger Cup.
Format
Preliminary round
The 16 teams compete in a
round-robin format
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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
Week 1
Pool 1
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 2
*All times are Eastern European Summer Time
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( 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: Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00), Brasília time (UTC−03:00), Amazon time (UTC−04:00), and Acr ...
( UTC−03:00).
Pool 4
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 2
Pool 5
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 6
*All times are Further-eastern European Time
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( UTC+03:00).
Pool 7
*All times are Macau Standard Time
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( UTC+08:00).
Pool 8
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 3
Pool 9
*All times are Hong Kong Time
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( UTC+08:00).
Pool 10
*All times are Central Summer Time ( UTC−05:00).
Pool 11
*All times are Thailand Standard Time
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( UTC+07:00).
Pool 12
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Week 4
Pool 13
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 14
*All times are Central European Summer Time
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( UTC+02:00).
Pool 15
*All times are Japan Standard Time
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( UTC+09:00).
Pool 16
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
( UTC+08:00).
Week 5
Pool 17
*All times are Further-eastern European Time
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Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be writt ...
( UTC+03:00).
Pool 18
*All times are China Standard Time
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( UTC+08:00).
Pool 19
*All times are Yekaterinburg Time ( UTC+05:00).
Pool 20
*All times are Korea Standard Time
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From May 8 to October 9 in 1988, daylight saving time was tested to better accommodat ...
( UTC+09:00).
Final round
*All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
( UTC+08:00).
Pool play
Pool A
Pool B
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
''Source
VNL 2019 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
* 2019 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
* 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup
References
External links
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
– official website
FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2019
– official website
Competition Formula
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