2023 FIVB Women's Challenger Cup
Laval, host city
Tournament details
Host nation France
CityLaval
Dates27–30 July
Teams8 (from 5 confederations)
Champions France (1st title)
Runners-up Sweden
Third place Colombia
Fourth place Ukraine
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Attendance7,858 (982 per match)
Best scorerSweden Isabelle Haak (92 points)
Best spikerSweden Isabelle Haak (45.30 %)
Best blockerUkraine Anastasiia Maievska (3.00 Avg)
Best serverFrance Nina Stojiljković (2.00 Avg)
Best setterFrance Nina Stojiljković (17.33 Avg)
Best diggerFrance Héléna Cazaute (16.33 Avg)
Best receiverColombia Amanda Coneo (24.51 %)
Official website
Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was the fourth 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 Espace Mayenne in Laval, France, between 27 and 30 July 2023.[1][2]

Five teams made their first appearance in the women's Challenger Cup in this edition: Kenya, Mexico, Sweden, Ukraine and Vietnam.

The host France won the title, defeating Sweden in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2024 Nations League replacing Croatia, the last placed challenger team in the 2023 edition. Colombia defeated Ukraine in the 3rd place match.[3]

Qualification

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
 Kenya CAVB Highest ranked in CAVB — 0 None None
 Colombia CSV Highest ranked in CSV — 2 2018 2022 Runners-up (2018)
 France CEV Host country 1 June 2023[1] 1 2022 2022 5th place (2022)
 Mexico NORCECA 2022 NORCECA International League Final Four champions[4] 19 June 2022 0 None None
 Vietnam AVC 2023 Asian Challenge Cup champions 25 June 2023 0 None None
 Ukraine CEV 2023 European Golden League champions 28 June 2023 0 None None
 Sweden CEV 2023 European Golden League runners-up 28 June 2023 0 None None
 Croatia CEV 2023 Nations League last placed challenger team 2 July 2023 2 2019 2022 Champions (2022)

Format

The tournament will compete in the knock-out format (quarterfinals, semifinals, and final) with the host country (France) playing its quarterfinal match against the lowest ranked team. The remaining six teams are placed from 2nd to 7th positions as per the FIVB World Ranking as of 10 July 2023.[5] Rankings are shown in brackets except the host.

Match Top ranker Bottom ranker
Quarterfinal 1  France (Hosts)  Vietnam (47)
Quarterfinal 2  Colombia (17)  Kenya (29)
Quarterfinal 3  Mexico (19)  Sweden (28)
Quarterfinal 4  Ukraine (20)  Croatia (25)

Squads

Venue

All matches
Laval, France
Espace Mayenne
Capacity: 4,500

Knockout stage

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
27 July
 
 
 France3
 
29 July
 
 Vietnam0
 
 France3
 
27 July
 
 Ukraine0
 
 Ukraine3
 
30 July
 
 Croatia1
 
 France3
 
28 July
 
 Sweden1
 
 Colombia3
 
29 July
 
 Kenya1
 
 Colombia1
 
28 July
 
 Sweden3 3rd place match
 
 Mexico2
 
30 July
 
 Sweden3
 
 Ukraine1
 
 
 Colombia3
 

Quarterfinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
27 Jul17:00France 3–0 Vietnam25–2025–1625–17  75–53P2 Report
27 Jul20:30Ukraine 3–1 Croatia25–1525–1518–2525–19 93–74P2 Report
28 Jul17:00Mexico 2–3 Sweden25–2025–1920–2522–255–1597–104P2 Report
28 Jul20:30Colombia 3–1 Kenya25–2221–2525–2325–19 96–89P2 Report

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
29 Jul17:00France 3–0 Ukraine25–1025–2025–22  75–52P2 Report
29 Jul20:30Sweden 3–1 Colombia25–1725–1722–2525–17 97–76P2 Report

3rd place match

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul13:30Ukraine 1–3 Colombia23–2525–1224–2622–25 94–88P2 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
30 Jul17:00France 3–1 Sweden25–2125–1622–2525–15 97–77P2 Report

Final standing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Challenger Cup 2023". FF Volley. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Challenger Cup : Le plateau est connu" [Challenger Cup: The field is known]. FF Volley (in French). 30 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "France's women to play in VNL 2024 before hosting Olympics". Vollleyball World. 30 July 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Mexico qualifies to FIVB Challenger Cup winning NORCECA Final Four". norceca.info. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Competition Formula". Volleyball World. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
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