2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup
Zadar, host city
Tournament details
Host nation Croatia
CityZadar
Dates28–31 July
Teams8 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Champions Croatia (1st title)
Runners-up Belgium
Third place Puerto Rico
Fourth place Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Attendance5,932 (742 per match)
Best scorerBelgium Britt Herbots (80 points)
Best spikerBelgium Britt Herbots (36.92 %)
Best blockerCroatia Božana Butigan (4.67 Avg)
Best serverBelgium Britt Herbots (2.33 Avg)
Best setterBelgium Jutta Van De Vyver (8.00 Avg)
Best diggerCroatia Lucija Mlinar (1.33 Avg)
Best receiverCroatia Laura Miloš (36.99 %)
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Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was the third edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by eight national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. The tournament was held at Krešimir Ćosić Hall in Zadar, Croatia, between 28 and 31 July 2022.[1][2]

Croatia won the title, defeating Belgium in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2023 Nations League replacing Belgium, the last placed challenger team in the 2022 edition. Puerto Rico defeated Colombia in the 3rd place match.[3]

Qualification

A total of eight teams qualified for the tournament.

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Cameroon CAVB 1st World ranked team from CAVB 31 March 2022 0 None None
 Colombia CSV 1st World ranked team from CSV 31 March 2022 1 2018 Runners-up (2018)
 Kazakhstan AVC 1st World ranked team from AVC 31 March 2022 0 None None
 Puerto Rico NORCECA 1st World ranked team from NORCECA 31 March 2022 1 2018 3rd place (2018)
 Croatia CEV Host country 8 April 2022 1 2019 4th place (2019)
 Czech Republic CEV 1st World ranked team from CEV 19 June 2022 1 2019 Runners-up (2019)
 France CEV 2022 Golden League champions 19 June 2022 0 None None
 Belgium CEV 2022 Nations League last placed challenger team 3 July 2022 0 None None

Format

The tournament will compete in a knock-out phase (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final), with the host country (Croatia) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team among the participating teams. The remaining seven teams are placed from 2nd to 8th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 3 July 2022.[4][5] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts.

Match Top ranker Bottom ranker
Quarterfinal 1  Croatia (Hosts)  Kazakhstan (36)
Quarterfinal 2  Belgium (12)  Czech Republic (23)
Quarterfinal 3  Colombia (17)  France (22)
Quarterfinal 4  Puerto Rico (18)  Cameroon (20)

Rule changes

  1. Court switch at the end of the sets to be eliminated due to COVID-19 safety guidelines and for a better television broadcasts.
  2. Each team is allowed to call only one time-out during each set in the preliminary. The time-out lasts 30 seconds long. During the finals, each team is granted one time-out before the technical and one time-out after the technical, except in a fifth set.
  3. Only one technical time-out is made when the leading team reaches 12 points, but no technical in a fifth set.

Squads

Venue

All matches
Zadar, Croatia
Krešimir Ćosić Hall
Capacity: 8,500

Knockout stage

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
28 July – Zadar
 
 
 Croatia3
 
30 July – Zadar
 
 Kazakhstan0
 
 Croatia3
 
29 July – Zadar
 
 Puerto Rico1
 
 Puerto Rico3
 
31 July – Zadar
 
 Cameroon0
 
 Croatia3
 
28 July – Zadar
 
 Belgium1
 
 Belgium3
 
30 July – Zadar
 
 Czech Republic0
 
 Belgium3
 
29 July – Zadar
 
 Colombia1 3rd place match
 
 Colombia3
 
31 July – Zadar
 
 France2
 
 Puerto Rico3
 
 
 Colombia1
 

Quarterfinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
28 Jul17:00Belgium 3–0 Czech Republic25–1825–2325–15  75–56P2 Report
28 Jul20:00Croatia 3–0 Kazakhstan25–2025–1525–20  75–55P2 Report
29 Jul17:00Colombia 3–2 France25–1725–1622–2511–2516–1499–97P2 Report
29 Jul20:00Puerto Rico 3–0 CameroonA25–025–025–0  75–0Report

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul17:00Belgium 3–1 Colombia21–2525–2025–2125–16 96–82P2 Report
30 Jul20:00Croatia 3–1 Puerto Rico26–2425–1723–2525–17 99–83P2 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
31 Jul17:00Puerto Rico 3–1 Colombia27–2523–2525–2325–18 100–91P2 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
31 Jul20:00Croatia 3–1 Belgium25–2021–2525–2225–21 96–88P2 Report

Final standing

See also

Notes

A.^ Cameroon withdrew and forfeited their match against Puerto Rico from the competition because they could not acquire entry visas to Croatia.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Croatia and Korea to welcome 2022 Challenger Cup tournaments". FIVB. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Volleyball Challenger Cup battles coming up in Croatia and Korea". volleyballworld. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Croatia and Cuba secure Volleyball Challenger Cup titles". vollleyballworld. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "There's an international competition in Korea!". Volleybox. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Competition Formula". volleyballworld. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Cameroon's withdrawal from Volleyball Challenger Cup in Croatia". volleyballworld. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
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