2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup

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.

2019 Women's World Cup

ワールドカップバレーボール 日本 2019
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Tournament details
Host nation	Japan
City	Yokohama, Hamamatsu, Sapporo, Toyama, Osaka
Dates	14–29 September
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Champions	China (5th title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Brazil
Tournament awards
MVP	Zhu Ting
Best Setter	Ding Xia
Best OH	Zhu Ting Kelsey Robinson
Best MB	Irina Koroleva Yan Ni
Best OPP	Andrea Drews
Best Libero	Wang Mengjie
Tournament statistics
Matches played	66
Attendance	219,802 (3,330 per match)
Best scorer	Nataliya Goncharova Ana Bjelica (209 points)
Best spiker	Zhu Ting (54.64%)
Best blocker	Irina Koroleva (1.00 Avg)
Best server	Yamila Nizetich (0.53 Avg)
Best setter	Miya Sato (6.83 Avg)
Best digger	Kim Hae-ran (3.95 Avg)
Best receiver	Kelsey Robinson (33.13%)
Official website
FIVB Volleyball World Cup 2019
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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.

Qualification

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)

	Qualified to 2019 FIVB World Cup
	Host and 2018 World champion

Rank	Team	WC 2015	OG 2016	WGP 2017	WCH 2018	Total	Note
1	Serbia	90	90	42	100	322	2018 World champion
2	China	100	100	40	80	320	AVC first team
3	United States	80	80	38	58	256	NORCECA first team
4	Brazil	50	50	50	50	200	CSV first team
5	Russia	70	50	28	50	198	CEV first team
6	Japan	50	50	32	58	190	Host
7	Netherlands	0	70	38	70	178	CEV second team
8	Italy	0	30	45	90	165
9	South Korea	40	50	18	30	138	AVC second team
10	Dominican Republic	30	3	30	45	108	NORCECA second team
11	Argentina	25	30	8	30	93	CSV second team
12	Turkey	0	3	24	45	72
13	Puerto Rico	0	20	14	36	70
14	Thailand	0	3	26	36	65
15	Germany	0	2	17	40	59
16	Bulgaria	0	0	15	40	55
17	Cameroon	0	20	2	25	47	CAVB first team
18	Canada	0	2	12	30	44
19	Belgium	0	2	22	18	42
20	Kenya	5	0	2	30	37	CAVB second team

Qualified teams

Team	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances
				Total	First	Last
Japan	AVC	Host country	31 January 2013	12	1973	2015
Serbia	CEV	World champions	20 October 2018	3	2007	2015
China	AVC	World ranking for AVC	1 January 2019	10	1977	2015
South Korea				12	1973	2015
Cameroon	CAVB	World ranking for CAVB		0	–	–
Kenya				5	1991	2015
Russia^1	CEV	World ranking for CEV		8	1973	2015
Netherlands				1	1995	1995
Brazil	CSV	World ranking for CSV		9	1973	2011
Argentina				5	1973	2015
United States	NORCECA	World ranking for NORCECA		10	1973	2015
Dominican Republic				4	2003	2015

Notes

¹ Competed as Soviet Union from 1973 to 1991; 3rd appearance as Russia.

Squads

Main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup squads

Coaches

• Oldest coach:   José Roberto Guimarães – 65 years and 44 days in the first game against Serbia.
• Youngest coach:   Jamie Morrison – 38 years and 306 days in the first game against Argentina.

Players

• Appearance record:   Fabiana Claudino,   Prisilla Altagracia Rivera Brens,   Janet Wanja, Mercy Moim, and   Kim Yeon-koung participated in the World Cup four times.
• Oldest player: At 38 years and 38 days,   Annerys Vargas is the oldest player ever to be nominated in the tournament.
• Youngest player:   Bojana Gočanin is the youngest player at the age of 16 years and 354 days.
• Tallest player: At 2.01 m,   Yuan Xinyue and   Brayelin Martínez are the tallest players ever to be nominated in the tournament.
• Shortest player: At 1.60 m,   Léia Silva is the shortest player ever to be nominated in the tournament.

Venues

Site	First round	Second round	Third round	Yokohama   Osaka   Sapporo   Hamamatsu   Toyama
A	Yokohama	Sapporo	Osaka
	Yokohama Arena	Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center	Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium (Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka)
	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 7,000	Capacity: 8,000
B	Hamamatsu	Toyama	Osaka
	Hamamatsu Arena	Toyama City Gymnasium	Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium (Edion Arena Osaka)
	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 5,000

Format

Group 1	Group 2
Japan (Host)	Serbia (1)
China (2)	United States (3)
Russia (5)	Brazil (4)
South Korea (9)	Netherlands (7)
Dominican Republic (10)	Argentina (11)
Cameroon (17)	Kenya (20)

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.

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches 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.

Results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	China	11	11	0	32	33	3	11.000	881	627	1.405
2	United States	11	10	1	28	30	10	3.000	929	773	1.202
3	Russia	11	8	3	23	27	14	1.929	948	818	1.159
4	Brazil	11	7	4	21	24	16	1.500	922	832	1.108
5	Japan	11	6	5	19	23	19	1.211	918	899	1.021
6	South Korea	11	6	5	18	21	19	1.105	898	888	1.011
7	Dominican Republic	11	6	5	17	22	21	1.048	933	949	0.983
8	Netherlands	11	5	6	17	21	19	1.105	890	865	1.029
9	Serbia	11	4	7	13	20	24	0.833	927	954	0.972
10	Argentina	11	2	9	5	9	29	0.310	736	890	0.827
11	Kenya	11	1	10	3	3	31	0.097	590	835	0.707
12	Cameroon	11	0	11	2	5	33	0.152	670	912	0.735

Source:^{[citation needed]}

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

First round

Site A

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
14 Sep	12:30	Cameroon	0–3	Russia	14–25	15–25	10–25			39–75	Report
14 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	South Korea	25–21	25–15	25–14			75–50	Report
14 Sep	19:20	Dominican Republic	1–3	Japan	21–25	11–25	26–24	14–25		72–99	Report
15 Sep	12:30	Cameroon	0–3	China	18–25	14–25	19–25			51–75	Report
15 Sep	15:00	South Korea	1–3	Dominican Republic	17–25	26–24	23–25	23–25		89–99	Report
15 Sep	19:20	Russia	3–2	Japan	25–11	23–25	25–27	25–19	15–7	113–89	Report
16 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	3–2	Cameroon	25–17	25–15	23–25	28–30	15–10	116–97	Report
16 Sep	15:40	China	3–0	Russia	25–22	25–16	25–18			75–56	Report
16 Sep	19:20	Japan	1–3	South Korea	25–23	19–25	22–25	25–27		91–100	Report
18 Sep	12:30	Russia	3–0	South Korea	25–18	29–27	25–12			79–57	Report
18 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	Dominican Republic	25–19	25–21	25–19			75–59	Report
18 Sep	19:20	Cameroon	0–3	Japan	17–25	17–25	20–25			54–75	Report
19 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	2–3	Russia	16–25	23–25	25–23	25–23	5–15	94–111	Report
19 Sep	15:00	South Korea	3–0	Cameroon	25–21	25–18	25–18			75–57	Report
19 Sep	19:20	Japan	0–3	China	17–25	10–25	17–25			44–75	Report

Site B

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
14 Sep	11:00	United States	3–0	Kenya	25–14	25–20	25–14			75–48	Report
14 Sep	14:00	Argentina	0–3	Netherlands	16–25	17–25	19–25			52–75	Report
14 Sep	17:00	Serbia	2–3	Brazil	20–25	25–23	18–25	25–22	12–15	100–110	Report
15 Sep	11:00	Kenya	0–3	Netherlands	12–25	19–25	17–25			48–75	Report
15 Sep	14:00	United States	3–1	Serbia	23–25	25–17	25–16	25–15		98–73	Report
15 Sep	17:00	Brazil	3–0	Argentina	25–17	25–19	25–16			75–52	Report
16 Sep	11:00	Serbia	3–0	Kenya	25–13	25–11	25–17			75–41	Report
16 Sep	14:00	Argentina	1–3	United States	21–25	18–25	25–18	11–25		75–93	Report
16 Sep	17:00	Netherlands	3–0	Brazil	25–23	25–21	25–22			75–66	Report
18 Sep	11:00	Serbia	3–1	Argentina	25–15	23–25	25–23	25–23		98–86	Report
18 Sep	14:00	United States	3–0	Netherlands	25–23	25–18	25–19			75–60	Report
18 Sep	18:00	Kenya	0–3	Brazil	20–25	17–25	14–25			51–75	Report
19 Sep	11:00	Netherlands	2–3	Serbia	25–18	25–23	19–25	24–26	9–15	102–107	Report
19 Sep	14:00	Argentina	3–0	Kenya	25–14	25–19	25–15			75–48	Report
19 Sep	18:00	Brazil	0–3	United States	22–25	18–25	19–25			59–75	Report

Second round

Site A

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	3–0	Kenya	25–17	25–19	25–19			75–55	Report
22 Sep	15:00	China	3–2	Brazil	25–23	23–25	22–25	25–19	15–9	110–101	Report
22 Sep	19:20	Japan	2–3	United States	24–26	25–22	21–25	25–23	8–15	103–111	Report
23 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	1–3	Brazil	16–25	25–23	19–25	22–25		82–98	Report
23 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	United States	25–16	25–17	25–22			75–55	Report
23 Sep	19:20	Japan	3–0	Kenya	25–18	25–22	25–20			75–60	Report
24 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	0–3	United States	22–25	23–25	9–25			54–75	Report
24 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	Kenya	25–12	25–12	25–14			75–38	Report
24 Sep	19:20	Japan	0–3	Brazil	14–25	21–25	23–25			58–75	Report

Site B

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Sep	11:00	South Korea	3–1	Argentina	25–19	21–25	25–19	25–9		96–72	Report
22 Sep	14:00	Cameroon	0–3	Netherlands	15–25	14–25	18–25			47–75	Report
22 Sep	17:00	Russia	3–1	Serbia	25–16	20–25	25–23	25–16		95–80	Report
23 Sep	11:00	South Korea	1–3	Netherlands	19–25	25–21	22–25	23–25		89–96	Report
23 Sep	14:00	Cameroon	0–3	Serbia	22–25	14–25	17–25			53–75	Report
23 Sep	17:00	Russia	3–0	Argentina	25–21	25–16	25–21			75–58	Report
24 Sep	11:00	South Korea	3–1	Serbia	25–21	25–18	15–25	25–23		90–87	Report
24 Sep	14:00	Cameroon	2–3	Argentina	25–21	25–20	20–25	20–25	12–15	102–106	Report
24 Sep	18:00	Russia	3–0	Netherlands	26–24	25–18	25–20			76–62	Report

Third round

Site A

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	3–0	Argentina	25–16	25–23	27–25			77–64	Report
27 Sep	15:00	China	3–1	Netherlands	25–19	25–16	21–25	25–19		96–79	Report
27 Sep	19:20	Japan	3–2	Serbia	21–25	21–25	25–20	25–20	15–6	107–96	Report
28 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	3–2	Netherlands	25–23	25–22	25–27	18–25	15–4	108–101	Report
28 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	Serbia	25–14	25–21	25–16			75–51	Report
28 Sep	19:20	Japan	3–0	Argentina	26–24	25–15	25–14			76–53	Report
29 Sep	12:30	Dominican Republic	3–1	Serbia	25–22	25–21	22–25	25–17		97–85	Report
29 Sep	15:00	China	3–0	Argentina	25–17	25–14	25–12			75–43	Report
29 Sep	19:20	Japan	3–1	Netherlands	25–18	27–25	24–26	25–21		101–90	Report

Site B

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Sep	11:00	South Korea	3–0	Kenya	25–15	25–16	25–21			75–52	Report
27 Sep	14:00	Cameroon	0–3	Brazil	11–25	17–25	18–25			46–75	Report
27 Sep	18:00	Russia	2–3	United States	26–24	22–25	22–25	25–17	8–15	103–106	Report
28 Sep	11:00	South Korea	3–1	Brazil	25–23	18–25	25–20	25–21		93–89	Report
28 Sep	14:00	Cameroon	0–3	United States	19–25	15–25	5–25			39–75	Report
28 Sep	17:00	Russia	3–0	Kenya	25–16	25–21	25–22			75–59	Report
29 Sep	11:00	South Korea	1–3	United States	21–25	16–25	25–16	22–25		84–91	Report
29 Sep	14:00	Russia	1–3	Brazil	26–28	20–25	25–21	19–25		90–99	Report
29 Sep	17:00	Cameroon	1–3	Kenya	15–25	24–26	25–14	21–25		85–90	Report

Final standing

Rank Team     China     United States     Russia 4   Brazil 5   Japan 6   South Korea 7   Dominican Republic 8   Netherlands 9   Serbia 10   Argentina 11   Kenya 12   Cameroon

2019 Women's World Cup champions    China 5th title Team roster Yuan Xinyue, Zhu Ting (c), Yang Hanyu, Gong Xiangyu, Wang Yuanyuan, Zeng Chunlei, Zhang Changning, Liu Xiaotong, Yao Di, Li Yingying, Zheng Yixin, Lin Li, Ding Xia, Yan Ni, Wang Mengjie, Liu Yanhan Head coach Lang Ping

Awards

• Most valuable player

    Zhu Ting

• Best setter

    Ding Xia

• Best outside hitters

    Zhu Ting

    Kelsey Robinson

• Best middle blockers

    Irina Koroleva

    Yan Ni

• Best opposite hitter

    Andrea Drews

• Best libero

    Wang Mengjie

Statistics leaders

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

Best scorers determined by scored points from attack, block and serve.

	Player	Attacks	Blocks	Serves	Total
1	Nataliya Goncharova	184	20	5	209
	Ana Bjelica	187	13	9	209
3	Brayelin Martínez	181	13	3	197
4	Zhu Ting	153	16	9	178
5	Lonneke Slöetjes	156	13	2	171

Best Attackers

Best attackers determined by successful attacks in percentage.

	Player	Spikes	Faults	Shots	Total	%
1	Zhu Ting	153	22	105	280	54.64
2	Zhang Changning	97	28	76	201	48.26
3	Andrea Drews	105	29	91	225	46.67
4	Ksenia Parubets	113	38	98	249	45.38
5	Brayelin Martínez	181	41	177	399	45.36

Best Blockers

Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

	Player	Blocks	Faults	Rebounds	Total	Avg
1	Irina Koroleva	41	61	70	172	1.00
2	Yan Ni	34	26	59	119	0.94
3	Ekaterina Efimova	33	29	60	122	0.80
4	Chiaka Ogbogu	32	40	72	144	0.80
5	Maja Aleksić	30	38	82	150	0.68

Best Servers

Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

	Player	Aces	Faults	Hits	Total	Avg
1	Yamila Nizetich	20	13	79	112	0.53
2	Bethania de la Cruz	18	14	118	150	0.42
3	Juliët Lohuis	12	16	70	98	0.30
4	Zhang Changning	10	10	74	94	0.28
	Ding Xia	10	6	105	121	0.28

Best Setters

Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

	Player	Running	Faults	Still	Total	Avg
1	Miya Sato	287	4	897	1188	6.83
2	Niverka Marte	250	7	869	1126	5.81
3	Victoria Mayer	210	5	762	977	5.53
4	Macris Carneiro	219	7	579	805	5.48
5	Ding Xia	192	5	497	694	5.33

Best Diggers

Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

	Player	Digs	Faults	Receptions	Total	Avg
1	Kim Hae-ran	158	26	15	199	3.95
2	Larysmer Martínez Caro	169	41	35	245	3.93
3	Myrthe Schoot	134	38	28	200	3.35
4	Teodora Pušić	139	38	36	213	3.16
5	Mako Kobata	129	33	27	189	3.07

Best Receivers

Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.

	Player	Excellents	Faults	Serve	Total	%
1	Kelsey Robinson	60	5	101	166	33.13
2	Mako Kobata	59	7	105	171	30.41
3	Gabriela Guimarães	78	7	156	241	29.46
4	Gong Xiangyu	41	4	90	135	27.41
5	Yuki Ishii	63	7	139	209	26.79

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