International volleyball tournament
Volleyball competition held in Peru
The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup , a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] The tournament was held in Lima , Peru between 20 and 24 June.[ 4]
Bulgaria won the title, defeating Colombia in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing Argentina , the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition .[ 5] Puerto Rico defeated Peru in the third place match.[ 5]
Qualification
Six teams will compete in the tournament.[ 1]
Note
^a Australia replaced Kazakhstan, the Asian qualifier winners, who withdrew from the tournament.[ 9]
^b Originally, a CSV representative was to face a team from Africa in a playoff for a spot in the Challenger Cup. According to the Chilean Volleyball Federation (FEVOCHI), however, FIVB fined the African Volleyball Confederation for not hosting any kind of qualifier event.[ 10]
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of August 2017.[ 11] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts who ranked 26th.
Venue
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
Pts
SW
SL
SR
SPW
SPL
SPR
Qualification
1
Colombia
2
2
0
6
6
0
MAX
151
87
1.736
Final round
2
Peru
2
1
1
3
3
3
1.000
126
127
0.992
3
Hungary
2
0
2
0
0
6
0.000
90
153
0.588
Pool B
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
Pts
SW
SL
SR
SPW
SPL
SPR
Qualification
1
Bulgaria
2
2
0
6
6
0
MAX
150
92
1.630
Final round
2
Puerto Rico
2
1
1
3
3
3
1.000
125
119
1.050
3
Australia
2
0
2
0
0
6
0.000
86
150
0.573
Final round
Semifinals
3rd place match
Date
Time
Score
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
Set 5
Total
Report
24 June
17:00
Puerto Rico
3–2
Peru
22–25
25–15
21–25
25–17
16–14
109–96
Report
Final
Date
Time
Score
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
Set 5
Total
Report
24 June
19:00
Colombia
1–3
Bulgaria
25–22
19–25
20–25
23–25
87–97
Report
Final standing
Source: VCC 2018 final standing
2018 Women's Challenger Cup champions
Bulgaria First title
14–woman Roster
Gergana Dimitrova , Nasya Dimitrova , Kristiana Petrova , Veselina Grigorova , Lora Kitipova , Petya Barakova , Monika Krasteva , Mira Todorova , Hristina Ruseva (c ), Mariya Karakasheva , Zhana Todorova , Borislava Saykova , Silvana Chausheva , Aleksandra Milanova
Head coach
Ivan Petkov
See also
References
External links
FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup
Men's
Seasons Squads Qualification
Women's
Seasons Squads Qualification