The 2021 Women's European Volleyball League was the 12th 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 features women's national volleyball teams from 20 European countries.
The tournament had two divisions: the Golden League, featuring twelve teams, and the Silver League, featuring eight teams.
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the
serpentine system
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according to their European Ranking for national teams as of January 2020. Rankings are shown in brackets.
Golden league
Silver league
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.
Golden league
*All times are local.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Ranking of the second placed teams
*Matches against the fourth placed team in each pool are not included in this ranking.
Silver league
*All times are local.
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
Silver League
*Venue:
Maribor
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,
Slovenia
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*All times are
Central European Summer Time
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(
UTC+02:00).
Semifinals
3rd place
Final
Golden League
*Venue:
Ruse, Bulgaria
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*All times are
Eastern European Summer Time
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(
UTC+03:00).
Semifinals
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most Valuable Player
*:
Zhana Todorova
See also
*
2021 Men's European Volleyball League
References
{{European Volleyball League
Europe
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Women's European Volleyball League
European Volleyball League European Volleyball League may refer to
* Men's European Volleyball League
* 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, ...
European Volleyball League European Volleyball League may refer to
* Men's European Volleyball League
* 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, ...
European Volleyball League European Volleyball League may refer to
* Men's European Volleyball League
* 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, ...