The 2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the third 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
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for 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 ...
. The tournament was held at
Krešimir Ćosić Hall
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From ...
in
Zadar
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, Croatia, between 28 and 31 July 2022.
Four teams made their first appearance in the women's Challenger Cup in this edition:
Belgium
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,
Cameroon
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,
France
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and
Kazakhstan
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.
Croatia
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won the title, defeating
Belgium
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in the final, and earned the right to participate in the
2023 Nations League replacing Belgium, the last placed challenger team in the
2022 edition.
Puerto Rico
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defeated
Colombia
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in the 3rd place match.
Qualification
A total of eight teams qualified for the tournament.
Format
The tournament will compete in a knock-out phase (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final), with the host country (Croatia) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team among the participating teams. The remaining seven teams are placed from 2nd to 8th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 3 July 2022. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts.
Rule changes
# Court switch at the end of the sets to be eliminated due to COVID-19 safety guidelines and for a better television broadcasts.
# Each team is allowed to call only one time-out during each set in the preliminary. The time-out lasts 30 seconds long. During the finals, each team is granted one time-out before the technical and one time-out after the technical, except in a fifth set.
# Only one technical time-out is made when the leading team reaches 12 points, but no technical in a fifth set.
Squads
Venue
Knockout stage
* All times are
Central European Summer Time
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(
UTC+02:00).
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
''Source
VCC 2022 final standings
'
See also
*
2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
*
2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
*
2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
The 2022 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the fourth edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held between 7 June to 24 July 2022, and the final round to ...
Notes
:A.Cameroon withdrew and forfeited their match against Puerto Rico from the competition because they could not acquire entry visas to Croatia.
References
External links
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball– official website
2022 Challenger Cup– official website
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