| Competition: | FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup |
| Other Titles: | Copa Challenger de Femenino Perú 2018 |
| Continent: | World |
| Gender: | Women |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Host: | Peru |
| City: | Lima |
| Dates: | 20–24 June |
| Teams: | 6 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | BUL |
| Title Number: | 1 |
| Second: | COL |
| Third: | PUR |
| Fourth: | PER |
| Website: | Volleyball Challenger Cup |
| Last: | first |
| Next: | 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup |
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]
See main article: article and 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup qualification. Six teams will compete in the tournament.[1]
Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of August 2017.[6] 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.
| width=50% | Pool A! | width=50% | Pool B |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Host) | (13) | ||
| (28) | (17) | ||
| (30) | (42) |
| All matches | |
|---|---|
| Lima, Peru | |
| Coliseo Eduardo Dibos | |
| Capacity: 4,600 | |
| width=40 | Rank | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the 2019 Nations League |
| 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 |
Coliseo Eduardo Dibos,