Competition: | FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship |
Continent: | World |
Gender: | women |
Type: | 20 |
Year: | 2021 |
Size: | 280 |
Dates: | 9–18 July 2021 |
Teams: | 16 |
Confederations: | 5 |
Host: | |
Champions: | ITA |
Title Number: | 2 |
Second: | SRB |
Third: | RUS |
Fourth: | NED |
Mvp: | Gaia Guiducci |
Setter: | Gaia Guiducci |
Outside Spikers: | Loveth Omoruyi Jolien Knollema |
Middle Blockers: | Emma Graziani Hena Kurtagić |
Opposite Spiker: | Vita Akimova |
Libero: | Martina Armini |
Website: | volleyball.com/w-u20-2021 |
Last: | 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship |
Next: | 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship |
The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship was the 21st 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 Belgium and Netherlands, making it the first time that the tournament was jointly hosted by more than one country.
The defending champions, Japan, withdrew from the event.
A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Belgium and Netherlands, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams qualified via five separate continental tournaments which were required to be held by 31 December 2020 at the latest. However, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent impact on some Confederations’ ability to organize the events within the given deadline, the FIVB decided to postpone the deadline for continental qualifications to 28 February 2021. Additionally, in the case of no Continental Confederations being able to hold qualifying events, teams were to qualify according to the respective Continental Rankings. The remaining 4 teams qualified via the FIVB Junior World Ranking.[1] [2] [3] [4]
width=28% | Means of qualification ! | width=23% | Date ! | width=22% | Venue ! | width=6% | Vacancies ! | width=18% | Qualifier |
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Host countries | 13 October 2020 | Lausanne | 2 | ||||||
22–30 August 2020 | 2 | ||||||||
10–17 June 2018 | |||||||||
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FIVB Junior World Ranking[5] | As per 1 March 2021 | 4+1* | |||||||
Total | 16 |
** Cuba was forced to withdraw from the competition due to COVID-19 infections and was replaced by Puerto Rico.
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U20 World Ranking as of 1 March 2021. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pools A and B regardless of the U20 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U20 World Ranking.[6] The draw was held on 14 June 2021.[7] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked both 22nd.
Seeded teams | width=25% | Pot 1 | width=25% | Pot 2 | ||
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width=25% | (Hosts) (Hosts) (1) (3) | width=25% | (4) (5) (6) (7) | (9) (10) (12) (15) | (17) (18) (44) |
** The teams changed their groups after the draw because a policy about immigration of Belgium ban the people from Argentina, Brazil and Russia.[7]
See main article: 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship squads.
width=50% | Rotterdam (Pool A, Pool C, Pool E, Pool G) | width=50% | Kortrijk (Pool B, Pool D, Pool F, Pool H) |
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Sportcentrum Schuttersveld | Sportcampus Lange Munte | ||
Capacity: 5000 | Capacity: 5000 | ||
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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
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Gaia Guiducci
Gaia Guiducci
Emma Graziani
Vita Akimova
Martina Armini