The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Nations League was the inaugural address edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women ‘s Nations League, a newfangled annual external women ‘s volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World Grand Prix in the international calendar. [ 1 ] The competition was held between May and July 2018 and the final attack took place in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, China. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Six-time World Grand Prix winners, United States won the inauguration edition, defeating Turkey in five sets on the final. [ 4 ] This was Turkey ‘s inaugural always final on a aged world-level premier competition ( World Championship, World Cup, Summer Olympic Games and the aforesaid Grand Prix ). Reigning Olympic champions and host nation, China defeated 12-time Grand Prix champions Brazil in square sets for the bronze decoration. [ 5 ] Michelle Bartsch-Hackley from USA was elected the MVP. [ citation needed ] Argentina was the last target rival team after the preliminary round off and will be replaced by Challenger Cup winners Bulgaria in the 2019 edition. [ 6 ]

qualification [edit ]

sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which can not face delegating. early four teams were selected as rival teams which could be relegated from the tournament.

format [edit ]

preliminary round [edit ]

The 16 teams compete in a round-robin format with every effect team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, with a sum of 120 matches. The top five teams after the league round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round. [ 1 ] The delegating takes in consideration only the 4 rival teams and the end rank rival team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a rival team. [ 7 ]

Final round [edit ]

The six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runner-up in this circle. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations League deed. The losers face in the third place match .

Pools writing [edit ]

The overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018. [ 2 ]

preliminary polish [edit ]

Final round [edit ]

Venues [edit ]

The number of master of ceremonies cities and venues was announced on February 16, 2018. [ 2 ]

preliminary turn [edit ]

Final orotund [edit ]

competition schedule [edit ]


League round


Final round

Week 1
15–17 May

Week 2
22–24 May

Week 3
29–31 May

Week 4
5–7 Jun

Week 5
12–14 Jun

Week 6
Rest Week

Week 7
27 Jun – 1 Jul

24 matches

24 matches

24 matches

24 matches

24 matches

10 matches

Pool stand procedure [edit ]

  1. Total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
  2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
    • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
    • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
    • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
  3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
    • Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
    • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
    • If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads [edit ]

The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a team of 21 players, which every workweek ‘s 14-player roll must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roll two days before the begin of each workweek ‘s round-robin rival .

preliminary circle [edit ]

Ranking [edit ]

Rank

Team

Matches

Pts

Sets

Points

W

L

W

L

Ratio

W

L

Ratio

1

 United States
13

2

40

42

8

5.250

1227

997

1.231

2

 Serbia
12

3

37

41

15

2.733

1324

1141

1.160

3

 Brazil
12

3

35

40

20

2.000

1376

1229

1.120

4

 Netherlands
12

3

34

39

18

2.167

1327

1176

1.128

5

 Turkey
11

4

35

40

19

2.105

1351

1244

1.086

6

 Italy
10

5

29

34

22

1.545

1230

1136

1.083

7

 Russia
8

7

23

26

29

0.897

1194

1198

0.997

8

 Poland
8

7

22

29

29

1.000

1298

1211

1.072

9

 China
7

8

22

29

27

1.074

1237

1178

1.050

10

 Japan
7

8

20

27

31

0.871

1209

1273

0.950

11

 Germany
5

10

15

23

35

0.657

1220

1315

0.928

12

 South Korea
5

10

14

16

34

0.471

1022

1141

0.896

13

 Belgium
4

11

12

18

36

0.500

1115

1250

0.892

14

 Dominican Republic
3

12

12

17

37

0.459

1072

1245

0.861

15

 Thailand
2

13

7

17

41

0.415

1218

1355

0.899

16

 Argentina
1

14

3

5

42

0.119

830

1161

0.715

Week 1 [edit ]

pool 1 [edit ]

  • All times are Yekaterinburg Time (UTC+05:00).

pool 2 [edit ]

pool 3 [edit ]

pool 4 [edit ]

  • All times are Brasília time (UTC−03:00).

Week 2 [edit ]

pool 5 [edit ]

pool 6 [edit ]

pool 7 [edit ]

pool 8 [edit ]

Week 3 [edit ]

pool 9 [edit ]

pool 10 [edit ]

pool 11

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[edit ]

  • All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

pool 12 [edit ]

Week 4 [edit ]

pool 13 [edit ]

pool 14 [edit ]

pool 15 [edit ]

  • All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

pool 16 [edit ]

Week 5 [edit ]

pool 17 [edit ]

pond 18 [edit ]

pool 19 [edit ]

consortium 20 [edit ]

Final round off [edit ]

Pool play [edit ]

Qualified for Semifinals

pool A [edit ]

Rank

Team

Matches

Pts

Sets

Points

W

L

W

L

Ratio

W

L

Ratio

1

 Brazil
2

0

6

6

0

MAX

150

120

1.250

2

 China
1

1

3

3

4

0.750

159

161

0.988

3

 Netherlands
0

2

0

1

6

0.167

142

170

0.835

pond B [edit ]

Rank

Team

Matches

Pts

Sets

Points

W

L

W

L

Ratio

W

L

Ratio

1

 United States
2

0

5

6

2

3.000

182

165

1.103

2

 Turkey
1

1

3

5

5

1.000

202

206

0.981

3

 Serbia
0

2

1

2

6

0.333

171

184

0.929

Final four [edit ]

Semifinals [edit ]

Date

Time

Score

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

Set 5

Total

Report

30 Jun
15:00
Brazil
0–3
 Turkey
23–25
23–25
22–25
 
 
68–75
P2 Report

30 Jun
19:45
China
1–3
 United States
23–25
20–25
25–18
18–25
 
86–93
P2 Report

3rd position equal [edit ]

Date

Time

Score

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

Set 5

Total

Report

1 Jul
15:00
China
3–0
 Brazil
25–18
25–22
25–22
 
 
75–62
P2 Report

final [edit ]

Date

Time

Score

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

Set 5

Total

Report

1 Jul
19:00
Turkey
2–3
 United States
25–17
22–25
28–26
15–25
7–15
97–108
P2 Report

Final stand [edit ]

Awards [edit ]

Statistics leaders [edit ]

preliminary round [edit ]

as of June 14, 2018 [ 9 ]

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Final round [edit ]

as of July 1, 2018 [ 10 ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]