2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
International volleyball tournament
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The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League.[1][2][3] The tournament was held in Lima, Peru between 20 and 24 June.[4]
| Copa Challenger de Femenino Perú 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Peru |
| City | Lima |
| Dates | 20–24 June |
| Teams | 6 |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Bulgaria (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Colombia |
| Third place |  Puerto Rico |
| Fourth place |  Peru |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Best scorer | Dayana Segovia (78 points) |
| Best attacker | Dayana Segovia (39.41%) |
| Best spiker | Dayana Segovia (39.41%) |
| Best blocker | Hristina Ruseva (1.54 Avg) |
| Best server | Diana Dela Peña (0.43 Avg) |
| Best setter | María Marín (31.14 Avg) |
| Best digger | Esmeralda Sanchez (4.43 Avg) |
| Best receiver | Zhana Todorova (32.76%) |
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Bulgaria won the title, defeating Colombia in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing Argentina, the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition.[5] Puerto Rico defeated Peru in the third place match.[5]
Qualification
Six teams will compete in the tournament.[1]
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | First | Last | |||||
 Australiaa |
AVC | Asian qualifier 3rd place[6] | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Puerto Rico |
NORCECA | North American qualifier champions[7] | 20 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Colombiab |
CSV | South American qualifier runner-up | 27 May 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Peru |
CSV | Host country | 15 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
| Bulgaria |
CEV | 2018 Golden League champions[8] | 17 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
 Hungary |
CEV | 2018 Golden League runner-up[8] | 17 June 2018 | 0 | None | None | |
- Note
- ^a Australia replaced Kazakhstan, the Asian qualifier winners, who withdrew from the tournament.[9]
- ^b Originally, a CSV representative was to face a team from Africa in a playoff for a spot in the Challenger Cup. According to the Chilean Volleyball Federation (FEVOCHI), however, FIVB fined the African Volleyball Confederation for not hosting any kind of qualifier event.[10]
Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of August 2017.[11] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts who ranked 26th.
Venue
| All matches |
|---|
| Lima, Peru |
| Coliseo Eduardo Dibos |
| Capacity: 4,600 |
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Preliminary round
Pool A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia |
2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | MAX | 151 | 87 | 1.736 | Final round |
| 2 | Peru |
2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 126 | 127 | 0.992 | |
| 3 | Hungary |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.000 | 90 | 153 | 0.588 |
Pool B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria |
2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | MAX | 150 | 92 | 1.630 | Final round |
| 2 | Puerto Rico |
2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 125 | 119 | 1.050 | |
| 3 | Australia |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.000 | 86 | 150 | 0.573 |
| Date | Time | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun | 17:00 | Bulgaria | 3–0 | Australia | 25–11 | 25–16 | 25–15 | 75–42 | P2 Report | ||
| 21 Jun | 17:00 | Puerto Rico | 3–0 | Australia | 25–10 | 25–19 | 25–15 | 75–44 | Report | ||
| 22 Jun | 17:00 | Bulgaria | 3–0 | Puerto Rico | 25–18 | 25–18 | 25–14 | 75–50 | Report |
Final round
| Semifinals | Final | |||||
| 23 June – Lima | ||||||
| Colombia | 3 | |||||
| 24 June – Lima | ||||||
| Puerto Rico | 1 | |||||
| Colombia | 1 | |||||
| 23 June – Lima | ||||||
| Bulgaria | 3 | |||||
| Bulgaria | 3 | |||||
| Peru | 0 | |||||
| 3rd place match | ||||||
| 24 June – Lima | ||||||
| Puerto Rico | 3 | |||||
| Peru | 2 | |||||
Semifinals
3rd place match
| Date | Time | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June | 17:00 | Puerto Rico | 3–2 | Peru | 22–25 | 25–15 | 21–25 | 25–17 | 16–14 | 109–96 | Report |
Final
Final standing
Source: VCC 2018 final standing |
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