2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship explained

Competition:FIVB Volleyball
Girls' U19 World Championship
Continent:World
Gender:women
Type:19
Year:2023
Dates:1–11 August 2023
Teams:24
Host:
City:Osijek
Szeged
Venues:2
Cities:2
Champions:USA
Title Number:2
Second:TUR
Third:ITA
Fourth:JPN
Matches:96
Mvp: Abby Vander Wal
Setter: Ilaria Batte
Outside Spikers: Abby Vander Wal
Teraya Sigler
Middle Blockers: Aurora Papac
Begüm Kaçmaz
Opposite Spiker: Beren Yeşilırmak
Libero: Rin Nishikawa
Last:2021 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship
Next:2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship

The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship was the 18th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship, the biennial international youth volleyball championship contested by the women's national teams under the age of 19 of the members associations of the French: [[Fédération Internationale de Volleyball]] (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It was held in Croatia and Hungary from 1 to 11 August 2023.[1]

This is the first edition with under-19 national teams after FIVB decided, in March 2022, to move the age category of the girls' championship from U18 to U19 in order to align it with the Boys' U19 World Championship. Athletes should be born on or after 1 January 2005.[2] [3] At same time, FIVB disqualified Belarus and Russia who would been defending champion from future official events due to Russo-Ukrainian War.

Hosts selection

On 2 June 2022, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2023 (i.e., Boys' and Girls' U19 World Championships and Men's and Women's U21 World Championships).[4] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 29 July 2022, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).[5]

FIVB announced the hosts for its four Age Group World Championship on 24 January 2023,[1] with the joint bid of Croatia and Hungary being selected to host the 2023 Girls' U19 World Championship.[6] [7] This will be the first time that the FIVB Girls' U19 World Championship is co-hosted by two countries and the second time that Croatia hosts the tournament having previously done in 2001. For its part, Hungary will host a FIVB tournament of any category for the first time.

Qualification

Originally, a total of 20 national teams were going to qualify for the final tournament.[5] However, in January 2023, FIVB confirmed an increase in participating teams from 20 to 24 in order to "facilitate the co-hosting".[1]

In addition to Croatia and Hungary which qualified automatically as the hosts, 19 other teams qualified through five separate continental competitions which had to be completed by 31 December 2022 at the latest. The remaining 3 teams entered to the competition by the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking (excluding teams from the CEV) among the teams not yet qualified.[8] [9] [10]

The slot allocation was setted as follow:[5]

Note
ConfederationQualifying tournamentTeam qualifiedAppearancesPrevious best performance
TotalFirstLast
AVC
2022 Asian Girls' U18 Championship
15th19892019 (1995, 1999)
13th19952019 (2001, 2003, 2007, 2013)
13th19892019 (1991)
10th19972021 (1997)
CAVB
2022 Girls' African Nations Championship U19
10th19932021 (1993, 2005)
3rd20192021 (2019, 2021)
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking[11] 3rd19972021 (1997)
CEV
2022 Girls' U17 European Championship
15th19952021 (2015, 2017)
11th19932021 (2011)
6th20072017 (2011)
9th20032021 (2009)
11th19912021 (2001)
5th19892021 (1989)
Host nations5th19992005 (2003)
2nd20032003 (2003)
CSV
2022 Girls' U19 South American Championship
13th19892021 (1991, 2017)
18th (all)19892021 (1997, 2005, 2009)
1stDebutNone
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking[12] 10th19892021 (1993, 2013)
NORCECA
2022 Girls' Youth Pan-American Cup
13th19892021 (2019)
9th19972021 (2017)
8th19912021 (1991)
11th19932021 (1993, 2009)
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking4th19892021 (1989)

Pools composition

The draw for the pools composition was held on 31 March 2023 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.[13] The 24 teams were split into four pools of six. The hosts Croatia and Hungary and the top six teams of the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking in force at that time (were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system. FIVB reserved the right to seed the host teams as heads of pools A and B regardless of their position in the World Ranking. The remaining 16 teams were divided into four pots of four, according to their position in the same Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking, in order to be drawn to complete the following four positions in each pool.[9]

Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking of each team are shown in brackets, except the hosts Hungary and Croatia who ranked 35th and 36th, respectively.[14]

The draw procedure also followed the serpentine system and was as follows:[9]

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:[15]

+ Pool A
width=200Team
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
+ Pool B
width=200Team
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
+ Pool C
width=200Team
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
+ Pool D
width=200Team
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6

Preliminary round

Pool B

Forfeited Nigeria games due to their withdrawal:

Pool D

Final round

17th–24th places

17th place match

Eighth Finals

Eighth Finals

9th–16th places

Quarterfinals

5th–8th places

5th place match

Final Four

Final

Final standing

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

See also

External links

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hosts And Dates For The FIVB Volleyball Age Group World Championships 2023 Confirmed. FIVB. 24 January 2023.
  2. Web site: New regulations for age group categories adopted by FIVB. NORCECA. 30 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220531165308/http://www.norceca.info/news/volleyball/2022/3/new-regulations-for-age-group-categories-adopted-by-fivb.aspx. 31 May 2022.
  3. Web site: AVC GOES AHEAD WITH ADJUSTMENT OF 2022 AVC AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS NAKHON PATHOM TO HOST 2 AVC EVENTS IN JUNE. Asian Volleyball Confederation. asianvolleyball.net. 14 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220414005836/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/avc-goes-ahead-with-adjustment-of-2022-avc-age-group-championships-as-nakhon-pathom-to-host-2-avc-events-in-june/. 14 April 2022.
  4. Web site: FIVB Opens Bidding Process For 2023 International Age-Group Events. FIVB. 2 June 2022.
  5. Web site: FIVB VOLLEYBALL AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023 Expression of Interest and Organisational Conditions for Future Organisers. FIVB. 2 June 2022.
  6. News: Osijek domaćin Svjetskog prvenstva u odbojci . 25 January 2023. sib.net.hr. 27 January 2023. hr.
  7. News: Magyarország társházigazdája lesz az U19-es leány röplabda-világbajnokság . 26 January 2023. sonline.hu. 27 January 2023. hu.
  8. Web site: Invitado por la FIVB ¡PERÚ AL MUNDIAL FEMENINO U19!. 2 February 2023. Peruvian Volleyball Federation. es. Facebook.
  9. Web site: Drawing of Lots - FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship Croatia-Hungary 2023. FIVB. YouTube. 31 March 2023.
  10. Web site: Participating Teams Revealed For FIVB Age Group World Championships 2023. 24 March 2023. FIVB.
  11. News: Nigeria’s U19 female team to take part in world volleyball championship. TheCable. Shehu. Idris. 31 January 2023.
  12. News: Selección peruana de vóley accedió al Mundial Femenino Sub-19. Ovación. 2 February 2023. es.
  13. Web site: Get ready for age-group World Championship draws next Friday. FIVB. en.volleyballworld.com. 25 March 2023.
  14. Web site: FIVB WORLD RANKING - GIRLS' U19 As per 24 October 2022. FIVB. 24 October 2022.
  15. Web site: Exciting Match-Ups Drawn As Age Group World Championship Pools Determined. FIVB. 31 March 2023.