2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship explained

Competition:FIVB Women's World Championship
Other Titles:バレーボール女子世界選手権
日本 2018
Gender:women
Continent:World
Year:2018
Size:280
City:Hamamatsu, Kobe, Nagoya, Sapporo, Yokohama and Osaka
Dates:29 September – 20 October
Opened:Akihito
Teams:24
Venues:6
Cities:6
Champions:SRB
Title Number:1
Second:ITA
Third:CHN
Fourth:NED
Mvp: Tijana Bošković
Setter: Ofelia Malinov
Outside Spikers: Miriam Sylla
Zhu Ting
Middle Blockers: Yan Ni
Milena Rašić
Opposite Spiker: Paola Egonu
Libero: Monica De Gennaro
Matches:103
Best Scorer: Paola Egonu (324 points)
Best Spiker: Tijana Bošković (53.66)
Best Blocker: Yan Ni (0.89)
Best Server: Lonneke Slöetjes (0.56)
Best Setter: Ofelia Malinov (4.00)
Best Digger: Silvija Popović (3.23)
Best Receiver: Mako Kobata (46.25)
Website:japan2018.fivb.com
Last:2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
Next:2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

The 2018 FIVB Women's World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the French: [[Fédération Internationale de Volleyball]] (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 29 September to 20 October 2018. The final four was held at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama.[1]

Serbia won their first world title, defeating Italy in five sets at the final.[2] [3] This was the first all-European final in the Women's World Championship history and the first final since 1990 that not featured a team from the Americas. Reigning olympic champions China won the third place match, defeating Netherlands in straight sets.[4] For the first time since the 1974 Championship in Mexico, no team from the Americas reached the final four. Tijana Bošković from Serbia was elected the MVP.[5]

Host selection

On 25 August 2014, FIVB announced that the tournament would be held in Japan for the third time in twelve years and the fifth time overall.[6] The tournament will take place in six cities: Hamamatsu, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, and Yokohama.

Japan hosted the Women's World Championship on four previous occasions: 1967, 1998, 2006, and 2010. Moreover, Japan also hosted the Men's World Championship in 1998 and 2006. The country has also played hosts to other important volleyball competitions, including the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship and the World Grand Prix final round.

Qualification

See main article: 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification.

The qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the five FIVB confederations to decide 22 of the 24 teams which would play in the final tournament, with Japan qualifying automatically as hosts and United States also qualifying automatically as the defending champions. All remaining FIVB member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process.

At first, 160 associations registered teams to compete in the qualification process, but 46 associations withdrew from the qualifying process after they registered and India were suspended and then expelled from taking part in the process as a punishment for internal problems in the India Volleyball Federation.

The five regional governing bodies were allocated the remaining 22 spots; CAVB (Africa) was granted two, AVC (Asia and Oceania) four, NORCECA (North America) six, CSV (South America) two, and CEV (Europe) eight spots.[7]

Of the 24 nations qualified to play at the 2018 World Championship, 21 countries competed at the previous tournament in 2014. Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the first time. Other teams returning after absences of the last tournament(s) include Kenya and South Korea, who both missed the 2014 edition.

Squads

See main article: 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads.

Venues

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YokohamaSapporoKobe
Yokohama ArenaHokkaido Prefectural Sports CenterKobe Green Arena
Capacity: 12,000Capacity: 8,000Capacity: 6,000
width=25% Pool Dwidth=25% Pool E, G, Hwidth=25% Pool F
HamamatsuNagoyaOsaka
Hamamatsu ArenaNippon Gaishi HallOsaka Municipal Central Gymnasium
Capacity: 8,200Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 8,000

Format

First roundIn the first round, the 24 teams are spread across four pools of six teams playing in a round-robin system. The top four teams from each pool advance to the second round.
Second roundIn the second round, the 16 teams are allocated in two pools of eight teams (top teams from first round pools A and D in one and top teams from pools B and C in the other). Once again a round-robin system is used in each pool, teams coming from the same first round pool (therefore already played each other) only play against opponents from a different first round pool. The second round standings takes into account the points scored by each team in the first and second rounds. The top three teams of each group will access the third round.
Third roundThe six teams competing in the third round are divided into two three-team pools by a draw, with the first place teams from the previous round securing the head position of both pools. After the matches played once again in a round-robin system, the top two in each pool qualify for the semifinals and finals while the third placed teams from each pool play a fifth place match.
Final roundThe third round pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the World Championship title. The losers face each other in the third place match.

Pools composition

First round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 August 2017.[8] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines following the World Ranking.[9] [10] Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Tokyo, Japan on 7 December 2017. Rankings as of 7 August 2017 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Japan who ranked sixth.

Seeded Teams
width=25% Pool Awidth=25% Pool Bwidth=25% Pool Cwidth=25% Pool D
(Host)
(8)		 (1)
(7)		 (2)
(5)		 (3)
(4)
Unseeded Teams
width=25% Pot 1width=25% Pot 2width=25% Pot 3width=25% Pot 4
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)		 (13)
(15)
(16)
(17)		 (18)
(19)
(21)
(24)		 (25)
(26)
(33)
(34)
Draw

Second round

Pool E
(Pool D 1st)
(Pool D 2nd)
(Pool D 4th)
Pool F
(Pool B 1st) (Pool C 1st)
(Pool B 2nd) (Pool C 2nd)
(Pool B 3rd) (Pool C 3rd)
(Pool B 4th) (Pool C 4th)

Third round

Third round draw took place at Nippon Gaishi Hall, Nagoya on 11 October 2018.[11]

width=50% Pool Gwidth=50% Pool H
(Pool F 1st) (Pool E 1st)
(Pool E 2nd) (Pool F 2nd)
(Pool E 3rd) (Pool F 3rd)

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

All times are Japan Standard Time .

First round

Pool D

Second round

Pool F

Third round

Pool H

Final round

Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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Source: WCH Final standings
Team roster
Bianka Buša, Bojana Živković, Tijana Malešević, Brankica Mihajlović, Maja Ognjenović (c), Stefana Veljković, Teodora Pušić, Ana Bjelica, Maja Aleksić, Jovana Stevanović, Milena Rašić, Silvija Popović, Tijana Bošković, Bojana Milenković
Head coach
Zoran Terzić

Awards

Tijana Bošković

Ofelia Malinov

Miriam Sylla

Zhu Ting

Yan Ni

Milena Rašić

Paola Egonu

Monica De Gennaro

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 at the completion of the tournament.[12] Only players whose teams advanced to the third round are taken in consideration.

Best Scorers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 Spikeswidth=20 Blockswidth=20 Serveswidth=20 Total
align=center 1 Paola Egonu2752623324
align=center 2 Lonneke Slöetjesalign=center 233align=center 16align=center 27align=center 276
align=center 3 Zhu Tingalign=center 202align=center 17align=center 8align=center 227
align=center 4 Tijana Boškovićalign=center 176align=center 11align=center 6align=center 193
align=center 5 Sarina Kogaalign=center 156align=center 8align=center 7align=center 171
Best Spikers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 Spikeswidth=20 Faultswidth=20 Shotswidth=20 width=20
align=center 1 Tijana Boškovićalign=center 176align=center 50align=center 102align=center 328align=center 53.66
align=center 2 Miriam Syllaalign=center 141align=center 22align=center 121align=center 284align=center 49.65
align=center 3 Paola Egonualign=center 275align=center 83align=center 205align=center 563align=center 48.85
align=center 4 Lonneke Slöetjesalign=center 233align=center 68align=center 186align=center 487align=center 47.84
align=center 5 Brankica Mihajlovićalign=center 148align=center 41align=center 124align=center 313align=center 47.28
Best Blockers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 width=20 Faultswidth=20 Reboundswidth=20 width=20
align=center 1 Yan Nialign=center 42align=center 17align=center 91align=center 150align=center 0.89
align=center 2 Anna Danesialign=center 41align=center 28align=center 109align=center 178align=center 0.84
align=center 3 Milena Rašićalign=center 35align=center 34align=center 58align=center 127align=center 0.80
align=center 4 Yuan Xinyue3021991500.64
align=center 5 Cristina Chirichellaalign=center 31align=center 21align=center 79align=center 131align=center 0.63
Best Servers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 Aceswidth=20 Faultswidth=20 Hitswidth=20 width=20
align=center 1 Lonneke Slöetjesalign=center 27align=center 24align=center 103align=center 154align=center 0.56
align=center 2 Paola Egonualign=center 23align=center 42align=center 130align=center 195align=center 0.47
align=center 3 Yuan Xinyuealign=center 18align=center 7align=center 159align=center 184align=center 0.38
align=center 4 Maja Ognjenovićalign=center 15align=center 13align=center 147align=center 175align=center 0.34
align=center 5 Li Yingyingalign=center 16align=center 8align=center 68align=center 92align=center 0.34
Best Setters
width=160 Playerwidth=20 width=20 Faultswidth=20 width=20 width=20
align=center 1 Ofelia Malinovalign=center 196align=center 9align=center 844align=center 1049align=center 4.00
align=center 2 Ding Xiaalign=center 175align=center 8align=center 822align=center 1005align=center 3.72
align=center 3 Laura Dijkemaalign=center 149align=center 5align=center 832align=center 986align=center 3.10
align=center 4 Carli Lloydalign=center 127align=center 6align=center 799align=center 932align=center 2.70
align=center 5 Kanami Tashiroalign=center 124align=center 6align=center 1115align=center 1245align=center 2.70
Best Diggers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 Digswidth=20 Faultswidth=20 Receptionswidth=20 width=20
align=center 1 Silvija Popovićalign=center 142align=center 6align=center 46align=center 194align=center 3.23
align=center 2 Kelsey Robinsonalign=center 150align=center 13align=center 34align=center 197align=center 3.19
align=center 3 Monica De Gennaroalign=center 151align=center 12align=center 48align=center 211align=center 3.08
align=center 4 Lucia Bosettialign=center 121align=center 9align=center 24align=center 154align=center 2.47
align=center 5 Kirsten Knipalign=center 116align=center 1align=center 37align=center 154align=center 2.42
Best Receivers
width=160 Playerwidth=20 Excellentswidth=20 Faultswidth=20 width=20 width=20
align=center 1 Mako Kobataalign=center 123align=center 12align=center 105align=center 240align=center 46.25
align=center 2 Kelsey Robinsonalign=center 86align=center 7align=center 98align=center 191align=center 41.36
3 Monica De Gennaro801012121133.18
align=center 4 Sarina Kogaalign=center 64align=center 9align=center 123align=center 196align=center 28.06
align=center 5 Kimberly Hillalign=center 80align=center 16align=center 145align=center 241align=center 26.56

Marketing

Sponsors

Local performance

According to Japan leading news paper 朝日新聞, the two Japanese local business partner were reported to lost money on hosting the competition. TBS is expected to lose nearly 1 billion yen due to bad sales at commercial advertisements. And JVA was expected to lose 600 million yen as the drop of ticket selling.[15]

Broadcasting

FIVB, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 World Championship[16] to the following broadcasters.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018 Women's World Championship broadcasting deal agreed with TBS. Fivb.org. 25 August 2014. 22 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Boskovic shines as Serbia beats Italy in five-set thriller to win World Championship . 20 October 2018 . FIVB.
  3. Web site: Serbia conquer the peak in historic World Championship . 20 October 2018 . FIVB.
  4. Web site: China claim bronze medal as Li stars in win over Netherlands . 20 October 2018 . FIVB.
  5. Web site: Boskovic leads 2018 World Champs Dream Team as MVP . 20 October 2018 . FIVB.
  6. Web site: 2018 Women's World Championship broadcasting deal agreed with TBS. Fivb.org. 25 August 2014. 22 January 2015.
  7. Web site: World Championships qualification process to be confirmed by Confederations . 2 February 2016 . FIVB.
  8. Web site: FIVB Senior World Ranking - Women (as of 7 August 2017) . 7 July 2017 . FIVB.
  9. Web site: FIVB World Championship Presskit. 6 December 2017 . FIVB.
  10. Web site: FIVB – EVENT REGULATIONS – Volleyball . 5 May 2017 . . 12–13 . 9 November 2017.
  11. Web site: Third round draw . FIVB . 11 October 2018.
  12. Web site: Statistics . . 20 October 2018.
  13. Web site: 2018-10-18. Spike, Set, Sponsorship: FIVB & the 2018 Women's World Championship. 2020-10-09. Tandem Partnerships. en-US.
  14. Web site: FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship 2018 - Home - FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship 2018. 2020-10-09. clubworldchampionships.2018.women.fivb.com.
  15. News: 世界バレー、ＴＢＳが億単位の赤字見込み ＣＭ収入低迷：朝日新聞デジタル. 朝日新聞デジタル. 2018-10-20. ja-JP.
  16. News: WhereToWatch. 10 September 2018.

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