2019 Women's European Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Women's European Volleyball Championship
Continent:	Europe
Gender:	women
Year:	2019
Host2:
Dates:	23 August – 8 September
Teams:	24
Champions:	SRB
Title Number:	3
Mvp:	Tijana Bošković
Website:	Official website
Last:	2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship
Next:	2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 2019 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 31st edition of the Women's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV from 23 August to 8 September 2019. For the first time the Women's EuroVolley was held in four countries: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey. The number of national teams participating in the event was also expanded from 16 to 24.^[1]

Qualification

See main article: 2019 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification.

Pools composition

The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:^[2]

The four Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. Turkey in Pool A, Poland in Pool B, Hungary in Pool C and Slovakia in Pool D.
The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools,
According to the CEV National Team ranking list as per 2 October 2017, National Federations are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.

ResultThe drawing of lots was held on 23 January 2019 at the Basketmakers' Kiosk in Istanbul.^[3]

Venues

Pool A, All knockout rounds		Pool B, Round of 16, Quarterfinals
Ankara, Turkey		Łódź, Poland
Ankara Arena		Atlas Arena
Capacity: 10,400		Capacity: 13,805

Pool C, Round of 16		Pool D, Round of 16
Budapest, Hungary		Bratislava, Slovakia
Budapest Sports Arena		Ondrej Nepela Arena
Capacity: 12,000		Capacity: 10,055

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the 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, 3 and 4 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

Preliminary round

Pool A

All times are Further-eastern European Time .

Pool B

All times are Central European Summer Time .

Pool C

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool D

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Final round

All times in Turkey are Further-eastern European Time (UTC+03:00).
All times in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Final

Final standing

Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

14–woman roster
Bianka Buša, Katarina Lazović, Mina Popović, Slađana Mirković, Brankica Mihajlović, Maja Ognjenović (C), Stefana Veljković, Teodora Pušić, Ana Bjelica, Maja Aleksić, Silvija Popović, Tijana Bošković, Bojana Milenković, Jelena Blagojević
Head coach
Zoran Terzić

Individual awards

Most valuable player

Tijana Bošković

Best setter

Maja Ognjenović

Best outside spikers

Brankica Mihajlović

Miriam Sylla

Best middle blockers

Eda Erdem Dündar

Agnieszka Kąkolewska

Best opposite spiker