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2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League

The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international women's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World Grand Prix in the international calendar.[1] The competition was held between May and July 2018, and the final round took place in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, China.[2][3]

Six-time World Grand Prix winners, United States won the inaugural edition, defeating Turkey in five sets on the final.[4] This was Turkey's first ever final on a senior world-level premier competition (World Championship, World Cup, Summer Olympic Games and the aforementioned Grand Prix). Reigning Olympic champions and host nation, China defeated 12-time Grand Prix champions Brazil in straight sets for the bronze medal.[5] Michelle Bartsch-Hackley from USA was elected the MVP.[6][7]

Argentina was the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and will be replaced by Challenger Cup winners Bulgaria in the 2019 edition.[8]

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.

Format

Preliminary round

The 16 teams compete in a round-robin format 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, with a total of 120 matches. The top five teams after the league round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round.[1] The relegation takes in consideration only the 4 challenger teams and the last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.[9]

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 in the third place match.

Pools composition

The overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018.[2]

Preliminary round

Final round

Venues

The list of host cities and venues was announced on February 16, 2018.[2]

Preliminary round

Final round

Competition schedule

Pool standing procedure

  1. Total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
  2. 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
  3. 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 21 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

Source: VNL 2018 standings
Notes:
  1. ^ Qualified as hosts

Week 1

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

Week 2

Pool 5

Pool 6

Pool 7

Pool 8

Week 3

Pool 9

Pool 10

Pool 11

Pool 12

Week 4

Pool 13

Pool 14

Pool 15

Pool 16

Week 5

Pool 17

Pool 18

Pool 19

Pool 20

Final round

Pool play

Pool A

Source: [citation needed]

Pool B

Source: [citation needed]

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

as of June 14, 2018[11]

Final round

as of July 1, 2018[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "FIVB announces the Volleyball Nations League". FIVB. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Pools Overview Release for Thrilling Inaugural Season VNL". FIVB. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Nanjing announced as FIVB Women's Nations League Finals host". FIVB. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  4. ^ "It's gold and glory for Team USA as Hill leads first VNL champions". FIVB. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Captain Zhu provides consolation for China with third-place finish". FIVB. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  6. ^ Keith, Braden (1 July 2018). "American Michelle Bartsch-Hackley named MVP of 2018 #VNL". Volleymob. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Michelle Bartsch-Hackley: The inaugural MVP VNL". Volleyball World. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Bulgaria amongst volleyball's cream for 2019 Women's VNL". FIVB. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Volleyball Challenger Cup battle begins in Peru for one ticket to 2019 Women's VNL". FIVB.org. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Omnisport Apeldoorn - Organiseren Bij Libéma". Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  11. ^ "Women's Statistics - FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2018". FIVB.org. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  12. ^ "Women's Statistics - FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2018". FIVB.org. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

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