The 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the sixth edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. It was held between May and June 2024, and the final round took place at the Indoor Stadium Huamark in Bangkok, Thailand.
Following the results of the 2023 Nations League and the 2023 Challenger Cup, Croatia were replaced by debutants France in this edition.
Italy claimed their second VNL title after defeating Japan in the final. Japan took the silver medal, which was their best result in this tournament. Poland retained the bronze medal after defeating Brazil in the 3rd place match. Paola Egonu of Italy named as the MVP of the tournament.
Teams Qualification Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Eleven of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other five teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament. France replaced Croatia after winning the 2023 Challenger Cup. In a change of format for the next edition, none of current teams will be relegated and from the year 2025 onwards, the competition will consist from 18 teams. The two extra spots will be from the team that wins the 2024 Challenger Cup and the best FIVB ranked team who are not in this year event.
CountryConfederationDesignationPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastCSVCore team520182023Runners-up (2019, 2021, 2022)CEVChallenger team32019202313th place (2023)NORCECAChallenger team32021202310th place (2023)AVCCore team520182023Runners-up (2023)NORCECAChallenger team5201820236th place (2021)CEVChallenger team0NoneDebutCEVCore team5201820238th place (2023)CEVCore team520182023Champions (2022)AVCCore team5201820234th place (2021)CEVCore team5201820235th place (2018)CEVChallenger team5201820233rd place (2023)CEVCore team5201820233rd place (2022)AVCCore team52018202312th place (2018)AVCCore team5201820238th place (2022)CEVCore team520182023Champions (2023)NORCECACore team520182023Champions (2018, 2019, 2021)
Squads
Format Preliminary round The format of play is the same as edition 2022's. The new format will see 16 women's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. The participating teams were ranked from 1st to 16th in the FIVB world rankings after the end of the last edition, and each team will play a total of 12 matches during the preliminary round over 3 weeks, against equally strong opponents – 3 matches against teams ranked 1st to 4th, 3 matches against teams ranked 5th to 8th, 3 matches against teams ranked 9th to 12th, and 3 matches against teams ranked 13th to 16th. The eight best teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition. However, this rule is only applied if the finals host country advances as part of this group. In this does not happen, the 7 best teams advance.
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 8 December 2023.
Week 1Week 2Week 3Pool 1TurkeyPool 2BrazilPool 3Macau, ChinaPool 4United StatesPool 5Hong Kong, ChinaPool 6Japan
Venues Preliminary round Week 1Pool 1Pool 2Antalya, TurkeyRio de Janeiro, BrazilAntalya Sports HallGinásio do MaracanãzinhoCapacity: 10,000Capacity: 11,800Week 2Pool 3Pool 4Macau, ChinaArlington, Texas, United States Galaxy ArenaCollege Park Center Capacity: 16,000Capacity: 7,000Week 3Pool 5Pool 6Hong Kong, ChinaFukuoka, JapanHong Kong ColiseumWest Japan General Exhibition Center Capacity: 12,500Capacity: 7,900
Final round All matchesBangkok, ThailandIndoor Stadium HuamarkCapacity: 8,000
Competition schedule ●Preliminary round●Final round
Week 114–19 MayWeek 228 May–2 JunWeek 311–16 JunWeek 420–23 Jun32 matches32 matches32 matches8 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 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: 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. 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. 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 Turkey Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 2 All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
Week 2 Pool 3 All times are Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool 4 All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).
Week 3 Pool 5 All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00).
Pool 6 All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Final round All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+07:00).
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam45678910111213141516 Source: VNL 2024 final standings
14–woman rosterMarina Lubian, Alice Degradi, Carlotta Cambi, Ilaria Spirito, Monica De Gennaro, Alessia Orro, Caterina Bosetti, Anna Danesi (c), Sara Bonifacio, Myriam Sylla, Paola Egonu, Sarah Luisa Fahr, Ekaterina Antropova, Gaia GiovanniniHead coach Julio Velasco
Awards
Most valuable player Paola Egonu Best setter Alessia Orro Best outside spikers Sarina Koga Myriam Sylla Best middle blocker Agnieszka Korneluk Sarah Luisa Fahr Best opposite spiker Paola Egonu Best libero Manami Kojima Fair play team award
Statistics leaders Preliminary round Statistics leaders correct at the end of preliminary round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Melissa Vargas24625222932 Sarina Koga252713272322413122494 Kiera Van Ryk21212122365 Magdalena Stysiak194268228
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots11624411051.273162 Sarina Koga1593219740.983883 Kiera Van Ryk1487113541.813544 Li Yingying1473613346.523165 Alexa Gray1374117838.48356
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Hena Kurtagić3339574.1212922516282.50693 Emily Maglio2343582.561244 Anna Danesi2124352.3380 Wang Yuanyuan2125522.3398
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Camilla Weitzel16121011.781292 Melissa Vargas1213771.5010231118811.38110 Paola Egonu1110322.2053 Merelin Nikolova1111412.2043
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Diao Linyu219655324.337782 Pia Kästner215948426.887083 210948823.337074205960422.788185 Brie King195967021.67874
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Kiera Van Ryk113341312.561602 Wang Mengjie106351411.781553 Kotona Hayashi102251411.331414 Sarina Koga101151411.221305100391611.11155
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Lena Stigrot66171777.33260 Chatchu-on Moksri66121518.252293 Kotona Hayashi638927.001634 61181696.782485 Martyna Łukasik50121215.00183
Final round Statistics leaders correct at the end of final round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Paola Egonu59826925522593 Sarina Koga5502574 Magdalena Stysiak3972485 Martyna Łukasik384244
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Paola Egonu5955151.301152 Sarina Koga55167936.6715055156640.441364 Magdalena Stysiak39294135.781095 Martyna Łukasik38193342.2290
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds11723225.67622 Agnieszka Korneluk1216164.00443 Thaísa Menezes1013193.33424 Paola Egonu89122.6729 Sarah Fahr821302.6759
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Agnieszka Korneluk65342.00452 Koyomi Iwasaki33411.0047 Nichika Yamada33441.005035371.0045 Melissa Vargas33153.0021
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Joanna Wołosz51029517.002052 Koyomi Iwasaki39229213.00333334111911.33154 Alessia Orro34018511.332195 Roberta Ratzke32116510.67198
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Nyeme Costa4712815.67672 Monica De Gennaro447214.67533 Sarina Koga369612.00514 Alessia Orro356311.67445 Koyomi Iwasaki336211.00413311711.0051
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Gabriela Guimarães3624742.35852 Martyna Łukasik2246723.66933 Sarina Koga1914728.36674 Mayu Ishikawa1855722.50805 Júlia Bergmann1735223.6172
See also 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup 2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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