2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru.^[1]

2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

Copa Challenger de Femenino Perú 2019
Tournament details
Host nation	Peru
City	Lima
Dates	26–30 June
Teams	6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Canada (1st title)
Runners-up	Czech Republic
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Attendance	6,600 (660 per match)
Best scorer	Alexa Lea Gray (77 points)
Best spiker	Alexa Lea Gray (51.49%)
Best blocker	Emily Maglio (0.93 Avg)
Best server	Samanta Fabris (0.57 Avg)
Best setter	Zoila La Rosa (6.00 Avg)
Best digger	Vanessa Palacios (4.63 Avg)
Best receiver	Tatiana Rizzo (27.69%)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup
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Canada won the title, defeating the Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Bulgaria, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition. Argentina defeated Croatia in the 3rd place match.^[2]

On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

Qualification

Main article: 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
				Total	First	Last
Canada	NORCECA	North American Qualifier champions[3]	2 June 2019	0	None		None
Chinese Taipei	AVC	1st World ranked team from AVC	12 June 2019	0	None		None
Argentinaa	CSV	1st World ranked team from CSV	12 June 2019	0	None		None
Peru	CSV	Host country	17 June 2019	1	2018		4th place (2018)
Czech Republic	CEV	2019 Golden League champions	22 June 2019	0	None		None
Croatia	CEV	2019 Golden League runner-up	22 June 2019	0	None		None

Note

^a No team from African Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 21 October 2018.^[4] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 27th.

Pool A	Pool B
Peru (Hosts)	Argentina (11)
Czech Republic (24)	Canada (18)
Croatia (30)	Chinese Taipei (33)

Squads

Main article: 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup squads

Venue

• Manuel Bonilla Stadium, Lima, Peru

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

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

Preliminary round

• All times are Peru Time (UTC-05:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	2	2	0	6	6	2	3.000	194	160	1.213	Semifinals
2	Croatia	2	1	1	3	4	4	1.000	168	189	0.889
3	Peru	2	0	2	0	2	6	0.333	186	199	0.935

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Jun	20:00	Peru	1–3	Croatia	23–25	25–19	17–25	29–31		94–100	P2 Report
27 Jun	20:00	Czech Republic	3–1	Croatia	20–25	25–12	25–16	25–15		95–68	P2 Report
28 Jun	20:00	Peru	1–3	Czech Republic	25–27	25–22	21–25	21–25		92–99	P2 Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Canada	2	2	0	6	6	0	MAX	150	116	1.293	Semifinals
2	Argentina	2	1	1	3	3	3	1.000	142	140	1.014
3	Chinese Taipei	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	114	150	0.760

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Jun	17:00	Argentina	3–0	Chinese Taipei	25–22	25–22	25–21			75–65	P2 Report
27 Jun	17:00	Canada	3–0	Chinese Taipei	25–16	25–17	25–16			75–49	P2 Report
28 Jun	17:00	Argentina	0–3	Canada	23–25	21–25	23–25			67–75	P2 Report

Final round

• All times are Peru Time (UTC-05:00).

	Semifinals				Final
	29 June – Lima
	Czech Republic	3
					30 June – Lima
	Argentina	0
					Czech Republic	2
	29 June – Lima
					Canada	3
	Canada	3
	Croatia	0
					3rd place match
					30 June – Lima
					Argentina	3
					Croatia	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jun	17:00	Czech Republic	3–0	Argentina	25–16	25–19	25–23			75–58	P2 Report
29 Jun	20:00	Canada	3–0	Croatia	25–18	25–20	26–24			76–62	P2 Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Jun	16:00	Argentina	3–0	Croatia	25–19	25–18	25–14			75–51	P2 Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Jun	19:00	Czech Republic	2–3	Canada	17–25	16–25	25–21	25–23	8–15	91–109	P2 Report

Final standing

Rank Team  Canada  Czech Republic  Argentina 4  Croatia 5  Peru 6  Chinese Taipei Qualified for the 2021 Nations League Source: VCC 2019 final standing

2019 Women's Challenger Cup champions  Canada 1st title 14–women Roster Kyla Richey (c), Jessica Niles, Autumn Bailey, Kiera Van Ryk, Danielle Smith, Alicia Ogoms, Alexa Lea Gray, Andrea Mitrovic, Jennifer Cross, Shainah Joseph, Kristen Moncks, Alicia Perrin, Megan Cyr, Emily Maglio Head coach Thomas Black

See also

• 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
• 2019 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• 2019 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League