2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League explained

Competition:	FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
Continent:	World
Gender:	women
Year:	2023
Host:	United States
City:	Arlington, Texas (final round)
Dates:	30 May – 16 July
Teams:	16
Confederations:	4
Venues:	7
Cities:	7
Champions:	TUR
Title Number:	1
Second:	CHN
Third:	POL
Fourth:	USA
Mvp:	Melissa Vargas
Setter:	Diao Linyu
Opposite Spiker:	Melissa Vargas
Libero:	Gizem Örge
Matches:	104
Website:	Volleyball Nations League
Last:	2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
Next:	2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League

The 2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the fifth edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual Women's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held between 30 May to 16 July 2023,^[1] and the final round took place at College Park Center, Arlington, Texas, United States.^[2]

Following the results of 2022 Nations League and 2022 Challenger Cup, Belgium were replaced by debutants Croatia in this edition.^[3]

Turkey claimed their first VNL title after defeating China in four sets. China took the silver medal, which is their best result in this tournament. Poland won their first medal of the tournament, claiming the bronze after defeating finals hosts the United States in five sets. Melissa Vargas of Turkey named as the MVP of the tournament.

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Eleven of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Five other teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.^{[4] [5]} Croatia replaced Belgium after winning the 2022 Challenger Cup.

Country	Confederation	Designation	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
	CSV	Core team	4	2018	2022	Runners-up (2019, 2021, 2022)
	CEV	Challenger team	2	2019	2022	14th place (2022)
	NORCECA	Challenger team	2	2021	2022	12th place (2022)
	AVC	Core team	4	2018	2022	3rd place (2018, 2019)
	CEV	Challenger team	0	None	None
	NORCECA	Challenger team	4	2018	2022	6th place (2021)
	CEV	Core team	4	2018	2022	10th place (2019, 2021, 2022)
	CEV	Core team	4	2018	2022	Champions (2022)
	AVC	Core team	4	2018	2022	4th place (2021)
	CEV	Core team	4	2018	2022	5th place (2018)
	CEV	Challenger team	4	2018	2022	5th place (2019)
	CEV	Core team	4	2018	2022	3rd place (2022)
	AVC	Core team	4	2018	2022	12th place (2018)
	AVC	Core team	4	2018	2022	8th place (2022)
	CEV	Core team	4	2018	2022	Runners-up (2018)
	NORCECA	Core team	4	2018	2022	Champions (2018, 2019, 2021)

Format

Preliminary round

The format of play is the same as edition 2022. The new format will see 16 women's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. Each team plays 12 matches during the pool stage. Eight teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition.

Final round

The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches.

Final 8 direct elimination formula:

• The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team.
• The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation does not finish in the top eight in Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.

Pool composition

The overview of pools was released on 11 November 2022.^[6]

Week 1		Week 2		Week 3
width=16%	Pool 1 Turkey	width=16%	Pool 2 Japan	width=16%	Pool 3 Hong Kong, China	width=16%	Pool 4 Brazil	width=16%	Pool 5 South Korea	width=16%	Pool 6 Thailand

Venues

Preliminary round

width=100% colspan=2	Week 1
width=50%	Pool 1	width=50%	Pool 2
Antalya, Turkey	Nagoya, Japan
Antalya Sports Hall	Nippon Gaishi Hall
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 10,000
width=100% colspan=2	Week 2
width=50%	Pool 3	width=50%	Pool 4
Hong Kong, China	Brasilia, Brazil
Hong Kong Coliseum	Nilson Nelson Gymnasium
Capacity: 12,500	Capacity: 11,105
width=100% colspan=2	Week 3
width=50%	Pool 5	width=50%	Pool 6
Suwon, South Korea	Bangkok, Thailand
Suwon KT Sonicboom Arena	Indoor Stadium Huamark
Capacity: 4,407	Capacity: 8,000

Final round

All matches
Arlington, Texas, USA
College Park Center
Capacity: 7,000

Competition schedule

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Preliminary round

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Final round

Pool standing procedure

Advancement out of pool play is decided by the following:

• Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)

In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply:

• The teams will be ranked by the most points 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
• 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:

1. Sets 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 sets won by the number of all sets lost.
2. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets 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.
3. If the tie persists based on the points 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 points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

Ranking

Week 1

Pool 1

• All times are Further-eastern European Time .

Pool 2

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 2

Pool 3

• All times are Hong Kong Time .

Pool 4

• All times are Brasília Time .

Week 3

Pool 5

• All times are Korea Standard Time .

Pool 6

• All times are Thailand Standard Time .

Final round

• All times are Central Daylight Time .

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final standing

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Source: VNL 2023 final standings

14–woman roster
Gizem Örge, Simge Aköz, Cansu Özbay, Melissa Vargas, Ayça Aykaç, Hande Baladın, Derya Cebecioğlu, Elif Şahin, Eda Erdem (c), Saliha Şahin, Zehra Güneş, Aslı Kalaç, İlkin Aydın, Ebrar Karakurt
Head coach
Daniele Santarelli

Awards

• Most valuable player

• Best setter

• Best outside spikers

• Best middle blockers

• Best opposite spiker

• Best libero

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Statistics leaders correct as of Week 3 of preliminary round.^[7]

Best Scorers
	width=200	Player	width=20	Attacks	width=20	Blocks	width=20	Serves	width=20	Total
1	Magdalena Stysiak	206	32	4	242
2	Li Yingying	214	13	13	240
3	Gaila González	197	28	14	239
4	Sylvia Nwakalor	202	31	3	236
5	Alexa Gray	208	13	10	231

Best Attackers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Spikes	width=20	Faults	width=20	Shots	width=20		width=20
1	Li Yingying	214	54	153	50.83	421
2	Alexa Gray	208	67	241	40.31	516
3	Magdalena Stysiak	206	71	171	45.98	448
4	Sylvia Nwakalor	202	69	171	45.70	442
5	Gaila González	197	85	184	42.27	466

Best Blockers
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20	Rebounds	width=20		width=20
1	Agnieszka Korneluk	43	60	67	3.58	170
2	Mira Todorova	39	35	45	3.36	119
3	Jineiry Martinez	35	45	82	2.92	162
4	Emily Maglio	35	49	75	2.92	159
5	Camilla Weitzel	34	55	84	2.83	173

Best Servers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Aces	width=20	Faults	width=20	Hits	width=20		width=20
1	Maria Yordanova	19	21	115	1.58	155
2	Sarina Koga	17	19	149	1.42	185
3	Camilla Weitzel	16	18	151	1.33	185
4	Hanna Orthmann	15	36	84	1.25	135
5	Gaila González	14	35	150	1.17	199

Best Setters
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Brie King	266	16	944	22.17	1226
2	Pia Kästner	264	6	858	22.00	1128
3	Diao Linyu	251	11	797	20.92	1059
4	Nanami Seki	220	7	730	18.33	957
5	Francesca Bosio	205	4	1022	17.08	1229

Best Diggers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Digs	width=20	Faults	width=20	Receptions	width=20		width=20
1	Mila Pashkuleva	176	41	19	14.67	236
2	Izabela Štimac	160	38	21	13.33	219
3	Anna Pogany	158	58	29	13.17	245
4	Minami Nishimura	151	39	17	12.58	207
5	Teodora Pusic	144	49	28	12.00	221

Best Receivers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Excellents	width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Chatchu-on Moksri	82	18	225	25.23	325
2	Izabela Štimac	80	19	128	35.24	227
3	Li Yingying	76	13	131	34.55	220
4	Lina Alsmeier	75	15	138	32.89	228
5	Wang Yunlu	73	15	172	28.08	260

Final round

Statistics leaders correct as of final round.^[8]

Best Scorers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Attacks	width=20	Blocks	width=20	Serves	width=20	Total
1	Melissa Vargas	55	5	5	65
2	Magdalena Stysiak	52	1	3	56
3	Li Yingying	48	2	1	51
4	Martyna Łukasik	35	1	2	38
5	Andrea Drews	32	3	2	37

Best Attackers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Spikes	width=20	Faults	width=20	Shots	width=20		width=20
1	Melissa Vargas	55	12	42	50.46	109
2	Magdalena Stysiak	52	22	51	41.60	125
3	Li Yingying	48	12	45	45.71	105
4	Martyna Łukasik	35	7	38	43.75	80
5	Andrea Drews	32	22	38	34.78	92

Best Blockers
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20	Rebounds	width=20		width=20
1	Zehra Güneş	14	12	18	4.67	44
2	Eda Erdem	12	17	21	4.00	50
3	Yuan Xinyue	10	14	15	3.33	39
4	Joanna Pacak	8	2	6	2.67	16
5	Chiaka Ogbogu	8	10	19	2.67	37

Best Servers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Aces	width=20	Faults	width=20	Hits	width=20		width=20
1	Melissa Vargas	5	4	39	1.67	48
2	Agnieszka Korneluk	3	7	26	1.00	36
3	Magdalena Stysiak	3	8	30	1.00	41
4	Micha Hancock	3	4	34	1.00	41
5	Ebrar Karakurt	3	3	41	1.00	47

Best Setters
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Diao Linyu	71	1	161	23.67	233
2	Katarzyna Wenerska	42	2	225	14.00	269
3	Micha Hancock	37	5	231	12.33	273
4	Macris Carneiro	36	0	72	36.00	108
5	Pia Kästner	33	3	89	26.40	125

Best Diggers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Digs	width=20	Faults	width=20	Receptions	width=20		width=20
1	Gizem Örge	46	14	6	15.33	66
2	Maria Stenzel	40	10	2	13.33	52
3	Justine Wong-Orantes	39	19	4	13.00	62
4	Magdalena Stysiak	35	4	2	11.67	41
5	Wang Mengjie	38	8	5	10.00	43

Best Receivers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Excellents	width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Martyna Łukasik	22	6	58	25.58	86
2	Maria Stenzel	21	1	37	35.59	59
3	Lena Stigrot	16	0	23	41.03	39
4	Wang Yunlu	16	8	39	25.40	63
5	Kelsey Robinson	14	1	33	29.17	48

See also

• 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League
• 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup
• 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup

External links

• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball FIVB
• FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2023 – official website
• Brackets

Notes and References

1. Web site: 11 November 2022 . Volleyball's Best Ready To Grace Venues Across The Globe As Arenas Confirmed For VNL 2023 . FIVB.
2. Web site: Volleyball World . United States and Poland to host Volleyball Nations League Finals in 2023 . 6 December 2022 . Volleyball World . en.
3. Web site: Croatia and Cuba secure Volleyball Challenger Cup titles . Volleyball World . 12 November 2022 . 31 July 2022.
4. Web site: volleyballworld.com . VNL Qualification System . 30 May 2023 . volleyballworld.com . en.
5. Web site: VNL 2023 Competition Formula . Volleyball World . 12 November 2022.
6. Web site: 11 November 2022 . Host cities and pools . Volleyball World.
7. Web site: Women's Statistics – 2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League . volleyballworld . 20 June 2023.
8. Web site: Women's Finals Statistics – 2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League . volleyballworld . 12 July 2023.

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