The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the second edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual international women's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams. It was held between May and July 2019, and for the second time, the final round took place again at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.
United States won their second title in the competition, defeating Brazil in the final. China defeated Turkey in the third place match. Andrea Drews elected the MVP of the tournament.
Following the results of the 2018 Nations League and 2018 Challenger Cup, Argentina was replaced by debutants Bulgaria in this edition. Accordingly, following the results of this edition of the Nations League and the 2019 Challenger Cup, Bulgaria was replaced by newcomers Canada in the 2021 edition.
Teams Qualification Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. The other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament. Bulgaria replaced Argentina after winning the 2018 Challenger Cup.
CountryConfederationDesignationPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastCEVChallenger team12018201813th place (2018)CSVCore team1201820184th place (2018)CEVChallenger team0NoneDebutAVCCore team1201820183rd place (2018)NORCECAChallenger team12018201814th place (2018)CEVCore team12018201811th place (2018)CEVCore team1201820187th place (2018)AVCCore team12018201810th place (2018)CEVCore team1201820185th place (2018)CEVChallenger team1201820189th place (2018)CEVCore team1201820188th place (2018)CEVCore team1201820185th place (2018)AVCCore team12018201812th place (2018)AVCCore team12018201815th place (2019)CEVCore team120182018Runners-up (2018)NORCECACore team120182018Champions (2018)
Squads
Format Preliminary round The 16 teams compete in a round-robin format with every core team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, for 120 matches. The top five teams after the preliminary round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round. The relegation takes into consideration only the 4 challenger teams. The last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2020 Nations League. The winners of the Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.
Final round The six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations' League title. The losers face each other in the third place match.
Pool composition The overview of pools was released on October 23, 2018.
Preliminary round Week 1Pool 1PolandPool 2BulgariaPool 3BrazilPool 4SerbiaWeek 2Pool 5ItalyPool 6TurkeyPool 7Macau, ChinaPool 8NetherlandsWeek 3Pool 9Hong Kong, ChinaPool 10United StatesPool 11ThailandPool 12BelgiumWeek 4Pool 13ItalyPool 14GermanyPool 15JapanPool 16ChinaWeek 5Pool 17TurkeyPool 18ChinaPool 19RussiaPool 20South Korea
Final round Pool APool B (Host),(1) (2) (4) (3) (5) (6)
Venues The list of host cities and venues was announced on March 26, 2019.
Preliminary round Week 1Pool 1Pool 2Pool 3Pool 4Opole, PolandRuse, BulgariaBrasília, BrazilBelgrade, SerbiaStegu ArenaArena RuseNilson Nelson GymnasiumAleksandar Nikolić HallCapacity: 3,378Capacity: 5,100Capacity: 12,000Capacity: 5,878Week 2Pool 5Pool 6Pool 7Pool 8Conegliano, ItalyAnkara, TurkeyMacau, ChinaApeldoorn, NetherlandsZoppas ArenaBaşkent Volleyball HallMacau ForumOmnisport ApeldoornCapacity: 4,000Capacity: 7,600Capacity: 4,000Capacity: 5,400Week 3Pool 9Pool 10Pool 11Pool 12Hong Kong, ChinaLincoln, United StatesBangkok, ThailandKortrijk, BelgiumHong Kong ColiseumPinnacle Bank ArenaIndoor Stadium HuamarkLange MunteCapacity: 12,500Capacity: 15,290Capacity: 15,000Capacity: 1,600Week 4Pool 13Pool 14Pool 15Pool 16Perugia, ItalyStuttgart, GermanyTokyo, JapanJiangmen, ChinaPalaEvangelistiPorsche-ArenaMusashino Forest Sport PlazaJiangmen Sports HallCapacity: 4,500Capacity: 2,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 8,500Week 5Pool 17Pool 18Pool 19Pool 20Ankara, TurkeyNingbo, ChinaYekaterinburg, RussiaBoryeong, South KoreaBaşkent Volleyball HallBeilun GymnasiumTeam Sports PalaceBoryeong GymnasiumCapacity: 7,600Capacity: 8,000Capacity: 5,000Capacity: 2,742
Final round Nanjing, ChinaNanjing Olympic Sports Center GymnasiumCapacity: 13,000
Competition schedule ●Preliminary round●Final round
Week 121–23 MayWeek 228–30 MayWeek 34–6 JunWeek 411–13 JunWeek 518–20 JunWeek 6Rest WeekWeek 73–7 Jul24 matches24 matches24 matches24 matches24 matches10 matches
Pool standing procedure 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 point 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: Set 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 set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set 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. If the tie persists based on the point 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 point 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 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 2 All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 3 All times are Brasília time (UTC−03:00).
Pool 4 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Week 2 Pool 5 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 6 All times are Further-eastern European Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 7 All times are Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool 8 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Week 3 Pool 9 All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool 10 All times are Central Summer Time (UTC−05:00).
Pool 11 All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+07:00).
Pool 12 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Week 4 Pool 13 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 14 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 15 All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Pool 16 All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Week 5 Pool 17 All times are Further-eastern European Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 18 All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool 19 All times are Yekaterinburg Time (UTC+05:00).
Pool 20 All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Final round All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool play Pool A
Pool B
Final four
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam 4 5678910111213141516 Source: VNL 2019 final standings
14–woman rosterJordyn Poulter, TeTori Dixon, Lauren Carlini, Jordan Larson (c), Andrea Drews, Jordan Thompson, Michelle Bartsch-Hackley, Megan Courtney, Mikaela Foecke, Dana Rettke, Haleigh Washington, Kelsey Robinson, Chiaka Ogbogu, Mary LakeHead coachKarch Kiraly
Awards
Most valuable player
Best setter
Best outside hitters
Best middle blockers
Best Opposite
Best libero
Statistics leaders
Preliminary round
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Malwina Smarzek37634114212 Ebrar Karakurt24721232913 Gabriela Guimarães2412982784 Brayelin Martínez2351942585 Bethania de la Cruz1853521241
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Andrea Drews2056815342648.122 Brayelin Martínez2354621349447.573 Ebrar Karakurt2479419753845.914 Elena Pietrini1996317443645.645 Gabriela Guimarães2418222755043.82
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Maja Aleksić4763851950.892 Ana Beatriz Corrêa51831182520.703 Mira Todorova32811112240.594 Agnieszka Kąkolewska4193962300.585 Nasya Dimitrova31921062290.57
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Marlies Janssens24311351900.422 Juliet Lohuis24131601970.423 Zehra Güneş25231932410.374 Indre Sorokaite24401151790.365 Ebrar Karakurt23421151800.34
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Nootsara Tomkom337979611426.742 Miya Sato3161182211495.853 Cansu Özbay3511899213615.164 Ilka Van de Vyver29212105313575.125 Macris Carneiro36010100413744.93
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Lenka Dürr18648673013.512 Zhana Todorova18465733223.413 Mako Kobata17338612723.204 Larysmer Martínez Caro17451672922.725 Celine Van Gestel15341442382.68
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Gabriela Guimarães1672128347131.002 Piyanut Pannoy711113922127.153 Léia Silva992018830725.734 Mako Kobata691514623023.485 Lenka Dürr741416925723.35
Final round
Best ScorersPlayerSpikesBlocksServesTotal1 Liu Yanhan7055802 Andrea Drews6944773 Ebrar Karakurt6563744 Malwina Smarzek5240565 Gong Xiangyu438455
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Andrea Drews69184513252.272 Malwina Smarzek52213610947.713 Kelsey Robinson4216349245.654 Ebrar Karakurt65285114445.145 Meliha İsmailoğlu3515287844.87
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Agnieszka Kąkolewska81414360.892 Paola Egonu658190.863 Zuzanna Efimienko7116240.784 Ana Beatriz Corrêa131227520.765 Kübra Akman10914330.71
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Michelle Bartsch-Hackley8533460.472 Paola Egonu3912240.433 Kübra Akman6242500.434 Liu Xiaotong6840540.385 Zehra Güneş5533430.36
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Lauren Carlini9142763715.352 Cansu Özbay7142273025.073 Macris Carneiro7012543254,124 Yao Di6212713343.885 Joanna Wołosz3321802153.67
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Simge Şebnem Aköz521013753.712 Megan Courtney591219903.473 Monica De Gennaro24611413.434 Ofelia Malinov1817262.575 Léia Silva4257542.47
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Gabriela Guimarães301467737.662 Lucia Bosetti110223333.333 Meliha İsmailoğlu4248012630.164 Megan Courtney243558225.615 Michelle Bartsch-Hackley175618314.46
See also 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup
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