2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB) explained

The CAVB qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship was a competition for two places at the finals in Japan.[1]

The CAVB Board of Administration meeting of 25 May 2017 decided to merge the 2017 Women's African Volleyball Championship and 2018 FIVB World Championship Continental Qualifiers. The top two teams from amongst the teams, who had registered with FIVB for the 2018 World Championship, will qualify to represent Africa in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.[2]

Pools composition

31 CAVB national teams entered the qualification.

First round

There are seven confederation zonal competitions. The teams were distributed according to their geographical positions. The winner of each competition competed in second round.

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1 (28)
2 (31)
Berths for second round
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Pool A 1
Pool B 2
Pool C 2
Pool D 2
Pool E 2
Pool F 2
Pool G 1

Note: Burundi, Gambia, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Central African Republic, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar withdrew from zonal qualification.

Second round

The second round is 2017 Women's African Nations championship which acts also as a qualifier for the 2018 FIVB World Championship.The top two teams from World ranking as of September 2017 and the host will direct qualify from first round. If the top two ranking teams have already qualified, the next best team from their pool would replace them in this round.

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

First round

Pool A

Note: Tunisia and Algeria qualified to second round as top two FIVB ranking teams.

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

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1Second round

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

2017 Women's African Volleyball Championship

See main article: 2017 Women's African Volleyball Championship.

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7
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Notes and References

  1. News: World Championships qualification process to be confirmed by Confederations . . 24 May 2017 .
  2. Web site: African Nations Championships to be merged with the World Championship qualifiers, CAVB Board. CAVB. 25 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170912233712/http://www.cavb.org/pages.php?option=brows&id=1770&catid=20. 12 September 2017. dead.
  3. Web site: Cameroon to organise the 2017 Women's African Nations championship and World champs Qualifiers . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803021216/http://www.cavb.org/pages.php?option=brows&id=1778&catid=106 . dead . August 3, 2017 . . 21 June 2017 .
  4. Web site: FIVB Senior World Ranking - Women . FIVB.
  5. Web site: African Championship Qualifying Tournament. Algerian Volleyball Federation. 4 September 2017.

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