2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship explained

Competition:	FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship
Other Titles:	Campeonato Mundial de Femenino Sub-20 México 2019
Continent:	World
Gender:	women
Type:	20
Year:	2019
Size:	280
Dates:	12–21 July
Teams:	16
Confederations:	5
Venues:	2
Cities:	2
Champions:	JPN
Title Number:	1
Second:	ITA
Third:	RUS
Fourth:	TUR
Mvp:	Mayu Ishikawa
Setter:	Tsukasa Nakagawa
Outside Spikers:	Haruna Soga Mayu Ishikawa
Middle Blockers:	Yulia Brovkina Merve Atlier
Opposite Spiker:	Terry Enweonwu
Libero:	Ni Feifan
Website:	u20.women.2019.volleyball.fivb.com
Last:	2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship
Next:	2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship will be the twentieth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the French: [[Fédération Internationale de Volleyball]] (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Mexico from 12 to 21 July 2019. Mexico played hosts for this event for the fourth time.^[1]

The finals involved 16 teams, of which 15 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 16 teams, 15 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while Rwanda made its first appearances at an FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship.

China is the defending champions, having won their third title in Mexico.

Qualification

A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Mexico, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams qualified via six separate continental tournaments while the remaining 5 teams qualified via the FIVB Junior World Ranking.

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Host country			1
	10–17 June 2018		2
2018 NORCECA Championship^[2]	16–24 June 2018		1
2018 African Championship^[3]	26 August – 2 September 2018		2
	1–9 September 2018		2
2018 South American Championship^[4]	17–21 October 2018		2
2019 Pan-American Cup^[5]	13–18 May 2019		1
FIVB Junior World Ranking^[6]	As per 1 January 2019		5
Total			16

Pools composition

First round

The draw was held in León, Mexico on 18 June 2019.^[7] Mexico as a host country team were seeded in the top position of pool A. The top seven teams from World ranking as per January 2019 were seed in serpentine system in first two rows. The eight remaining teams were drawn in next two rows. Numbers in brackets denote the World ranking.

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(Host) (1) (2) (3)	(4) (5) (6) (7)	(8) (9) (10) (11)	(13) (13) (16) (17)

Draw

Second round

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Venues

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Domo de la Feria	Hermanos Carreon Stadium
Capacity: 5000	Capacity: 3000
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Referees

There were sixteen referees from 5 continental confederations in this tournament.

AVC (1)

• Irina Kabulbekova

CAVB (2)

• Marthe Clémence Eyike
• Abderrazek Hariz

CEV (4)

• Sinisa Isajlovic
• Sabine Witte
• Roy Goren
• Sanja Miklosic

CSV (4)

• Angela Grass
• Misael Galindo Reyez
• Rocio Aida Huarcaya Lopez
• José Blanco Gonto

NORCECA (5)

• Andrew Robb
• Lourdes Perez Perez
• Nestor Bienvenido Mateo Perez
  • Pablo Mendoza Sanchez

Squads

See main article: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship squads.

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 D

Second round

Pool H

Final round

• All times are Central Daylight Time Zone .

Classification 13th–16th

13th-place match

Classification 9th–12th

9th-place match

Classification 5th–8th

5th-place match

Final four

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

12–man roster
Miyu Nakagawa, Nichika Yamada, Mayu Ishikawa (c), Shion Hirayama, Yuki Nishikawa, Haruna Soga, Ameze Miyabe, Ayaka Araki, Minami Nishimura, Rena Mizusugi, Kanon Sonoda, Tsukasa Nakagawa
Head coach
Aihara Noboru

Awards

• Most valuable player

Mayu Ishikawa

• Best setter

Tsukasa Nakagawa

• Best outside spikers

Haruna Soga

Mayu Ishikawa

• Best middle blockers

Yulia Brovkina

Merve Atlier

• Best opposite spiker

Terry Enweonwu

• Best libero

Ni Feifan

See also

• 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: Egypt, Tunisia, Mexico, Bahrain to host Age-Group World Championships in 2019. 28 August 2018. FIVB. 22 May 2019.
2. Web site: U-20 Continental Championship. NORCECA. 23 May 2019.
3. News: Egypt crowned women's U-20 Champions for the 8th time. volleyballkenya.org. 23 May 2019. 22 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190522111928/http://www.volleyballkenya.org/index.php/78-sample-data-articles/demo/slides/204-egypt-crowned-women-s-u-20-champions-for-the-8th-time. dead.
4. Web site: Sudamericano U20 – Femenino. CSV. 23 May 2019.
5. Web site: U-20 Pan American Cup. NORCECA. 23 May 2019.
6. Web site: FIVB World Ranking – Girls U20 (As per January 2019) . FIVB. 22 May 2019.
7. News: Women's U20 World Championship draw held in Mexico. 20 June 2019. FIVB. 20 June 2019.