The 2019 FIVB Women's World Cup was the 13th edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held from 14 to 29 September 2019 in Japan.[1] This was the first time that the FIVB did not distribute Olympics places since 1991 due to Japan hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, but points for the FIVB World Rankings were given.
China won their historic fifth title, following titles from 1981, 1985, 2003, and 2015. China surpassed Cuba's earlier record of four titles in the history of the competition. Defending their title as the reigning champions in 2015, China reigned to sweep all eleven matches in Yokohama, Sapporo and Osaka. USA and Russia complete the 2019 podium as silver medallists and bronze medallists respectively.[2]
Zhu Ting, outside hitter and captain of the Chinese women's volleyball national team, was selected as the World Cup's MVP, retaining her title from 2015.[3] Zhu was joined in the Dream Team by three members of the gold medal-winning Chinese side – Yan Ni as Best Middle Blocker, Wang Mengjie as Best Libero, and Ding Xia as Best Setter. Two members of the USA squad that finished second to the Chinese Team also made the Dream Team, as Kelsey Robinson and Andrea Drews won the Best Outside Spiker and Best Opposite awards, respectively. Russia's Irina Koroleva also won as Best Blocker.
Twelve teams qualified for the competition as the top two teams of FIVB World Rankings of each continental federation on 1 January 2019. (except Japan who qualified as host, and Serbia who qualified as 2018 World Champion)
José Roberto Guimarães – 65 years and 44 days in the first game against Serbia.
Jamie Morrison – 38 years and 306 days in the first game against Argentina. Fabiana Claudino, 
Prisilla Altagracia Rivera Brens, 
Janet Wanja, Mercy Moim, and 
Kim Yeon-koung participated in the World Cup four times. Annerys Vargas is the oldest player ever to be nominated in the tournament.
Bojana Gočanin is the youngest player at the age of 16 years and 354 days.
Yuan Xinyue and Brayelin Martínez are the tallest players ever to be nominated in the tournament. Léia Silva is the shortest player ever to be nominated in the tournament.The competition system of the 2019 World Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the 11 remaining teams.
The teams were divided into 2 pools of 6 teams each. In round 1, total 30 matches in 5 days, each teams played against the other teams from the same pool. For rounds 2 and 3, total 36 matches in 6 days, each team played against the teams from another pool.[4]
Numbers in brackets denoted the FIVB World Ranking as of 1 January 2019 except the hosts who ranked 6th.
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 29 September 2019.[5]
Best scorers determined by scored points from attack, block and serve.
Best attackers determined by successful attacks in percentage.
Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.
Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.
Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.
Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.
Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.
