2018 European Women's Volleyball Championship

2018 European Women's Volleyball Championship
2018 European Women's Volleyball Championship
	2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship
Championship Details
Location	Albania
Cities	Tirana , Durres
Stadiums	2
Qualifying Tournament Dates	January 11 - July 1
Final Tournament Dates	September 1-9
Number of participants	35
in the final stage	12
Top places
Champion	Italy (7th time)
Second place	Russia
Third place	Poland
Championship Statistics
Attendance	3879 (102 per game)
Matches played	38
Best player	Valeria Battista

The XXVI Women's European Youth Volleyball Championship was held in 2018 with the participation of teams composed of players no older than 2000 year of birth. The matches of the final tournament were played from September 1 to 9 in two cities of Albania - Tirana and Durres . The winner of the tournament was the Italian team.

Content

Qualifying games

34 teams participated in the qualifying games. Seven winners of the second stage groups won tickets to the final tournament of the championship, and the teams that became second in the groups, together with the Romania national team, who finished third with the best additional indicators, reached the final qualification stage, where they played four more tickets to the final tournament. The Albanian team, as its organizer, was exempted from the qualification procedure.

The draw of the final tournament was held on May 9, 2018 in Tirana ^[1] .

Stage One

A place	Group 1 ( Cherkasy )	Group 2 ( Herceg Novi )
one	Ukraine	Belarus
2	Sweden	Montenegro
3	Cyprus	Israel
four	Iceland	Georgia

Second Stage

A place	Group A ( Zrenjanin )	Group B ( Vityazevo )	Group C ( Concorezzo )	Group D ( Hair )
one	Serbia	Russia	Italy	Bulgaria
2	Netherlands	Slovenia	Norway	Greece
3	Denmark	Finland	Czech	Switzerland
four	Hungary	Ukraine (rejection)	Austria	Estonia

A place	Group E ( Humenne )	Group F ( Ploiesti )	Group G ( Filsbiburg )
one	Turkey	France	Poland
2	Slovakia	Belarus	Germany
3	Croatia	Romania	Latvia
four	Spain	Belgium	Portugal

Third Stage

A place	Group H ( Ploiesti )	Group I ( Samos )
one	Belarus	Slovakia
2	Germany	Netherlands
3	Romania	Slovenia
four	Norway	Greece

Final Tournament

Arenas

Durres : Dhimitrag Goga Sport Hall - Group I, playoffs for 5-8th places.
Tirana : Olimpik Park - Group II, playoffs for 1st-4th places.

Group Stage

Group I

	Matches		Glasses	Sets			Balls
	In (3: 2)	P (2: 3)	Glasses	AT	P	B: P	AT	P	B: P
1. Italy	50)	0 (0)	15	15	2	7,500	420	327	1,284
2. Poland	4 (0)	ten)	12	12	3	4,000	360	271	1,328
3. Belarus	thirty)	20)	9	ten	7	1,429	385	357	1,078
4. The Netherlands	20)	thirty)	6	6	ten	0,600	343	353	0.972
5. Bulgaria	ten)	4 (0)	3	6	12	0,500	376	421	0.893
6. Albania	0 (0)	50)	0	0	15	0,000	220	375	0.587

date	Match	Score	Sets					Report
date	Match	Score	one	2	3	four	five	Report
1.09	Albania - Netherlands	0: 3	11:25	13:25	15:25			Report
	Poland - Bulgaria	3-0	25:23	25:18	25:22			Report
	Belarus - Italy	1: 3	17:25	20:25	25:20	18:25		Report
2.09	Netherlands - Bulgaria	3: 1	25:16	25:22	22:25	25:23		Report
	Albania - Belarus	0: 3	15:25	21:25	13:25			Report
	Italy - Poland	3-0	25:21	29:27	25:12			Report
3.09	Belarus - Netherlands	3-0	25:16	25:22	26:24			Report
	Poland - Albania	3-0	25:13	25: 6	25: 9			Report
	Bulgaria - Italy	1: 3	11:25	25:19	20:25	20:25		Report
5.09	Belarus - Poland	0: 3	23:25	15:25	19:25			Report
	Albania - Bulgaria	0: 3	19:25	18:25	21:25			Report
	Netherlands - Italy	0: 3	21:25	19:25	25:27			Report
6.09	Bulgaria - Belarus	1: 3	20:25	16:25	25:22	15:25		Report
	Italy - Albania	3-0	25:13	25:14	25:19			Report
	Poland - Netherlands	3-0	25:14	25:12	25:18			Report

Group II

	Matches		Glasses	Sets			Balls
	In (3: 2)	P (2: 3)	Glasses	AT	P	B: P	AT	P	B: P
1. Russia	50)	0 (0)	15	15	2	7,500	415	312	1,330
2. Turkey	thirty)	2 (1)	ten	12	7	1,714	433	394	1,099
3. Serbia	thirty)	20)	9	ten	7	1,429	387	367	1,054
4. Germany	3 (2)	20)	7	ten	ten	1,000	421	407	1,034
5. Slovakia	ten)	4 (0)	3	3	13	0.231	289	377	0.767
6. France	0 (0)	5 (1)	one	four	15	0.267	351	439	0,800

date	Match	Score	Sets					Report
date	Match	Score	one	2	3	four	five	Report
1.09	Turkey - Germany	2: 3	22:25	21:25	25:22	25:23	10:15	Report
	Russia - Serbia	3-0	26:24	25:21	25:17			Report
	Slovakia - France	3: 1	25:12	25:14	12:25	25:21		Report
2.09	Germany - Serbia	1: 3	16:25	25:14	19:25	23:25		Report
	Turkey - Slovakia	3-0	25:11	25:17	28:26			Report
	France - Russia	1: 3	25:23	20:25	21:25	12:25		Report
3.09	Slovakia - Germany	0: 3	14:25	17:25	14:25			Report
	Russia - Turkey	3: 1	25:23	25:12	16:25	25:20		Report
	Serbia - France	3-0	25:20	25:11	25:20			Report
5.09	Slovakia - Russia	0: 3	19:25	12:25	12:25			Report
	Turkey - Serbia	3: 1	22:25	25:17	25:21	25:21		Report
	Germany - France	3: 2	25:19	20:25	25:14	19:25	15:12	Report
6.09	Serbia - Slovakia	3-0	25:16	25:19	27:25			Report
	France - Turkey	0: 3	20:25	18:25	17:25			Report
	Russia - Germany	3-0	25:16	25:19	25:14			Report

Playoffs

For 5-8 places

Stage	date	Match	Score	Sets					Report
Stage	date	Match	Score	one	2	3	four	five	Report
1/2 finals	8.09	Belarus - Germany	1: 3	18:25	19:25	25:16	20:25		Report
1/2 finals	8.09	Netherlands - Serbia	1: 3	19:25	18:25	26:24	14:25		Report
Match for 7th place	9.09	Belarus - Netherlands	2: 3	17:25	25:18	25:20	16:25	8:15	Report
5th place match	9.09	Germany - Serbia	1: 3	23:25	25:18	22:25	16:25		Report

For 1st-4th places

1/2 finals

date	Match	Score	Sets					Report
date	Match	Score	one	2	3	four	five	Report
8.09	Italy - Turkey	3: 1	25:15	10:25	25:22	25:22		Report
8.09	Russia - Poland	3: 2	19:25	25:19	25:22	19:25	17:15	Report

3rd place match

date	Match	Score	Sets					Report
date	Match	Score	one	2	3	four	five	Report
9.09	Turkey - Poland	2: 3	21:25	25:17	25:15	20:25	12:15	Report

Final

Italy

3: 2 (24:26, 18:25, 26:24, 25:22, 15: 9)

Russia

No.	Player	Glasses
one	Omorui	20 (17, 1, 2)
2	Battista	22 (19, 2, 1)
four	Sartori
6	Headlight	13 (6, 5, 2)
eight	Joli
9	Kone	17 (8, 6, 3)
13	Populini	8 (8, 0, 0)
14	Panetoni (L)
15	Malual
sixteen	Chipped
17	Tanase	9 (8, 1, 0)
18	Morello
Trainer - Massimo Bellano


108	Glasses	106
66	Attack	42
15	Block	23
eight	Innings	6
nineteen	Opponent's mistakes	35

Judges: Alexandra Balanjic (Serbia), Vanya Parvanova (Bulgaria).
Match time - 2:10 (30 + 25 + 29 + 29 + 17).
9th of September. Tirana. Olimpik Park. 900 viewers.
Report

No.	Player	Glasses
one	Shepeleva (l)
2	Kadochkina	15 (11, 4, 0)
3	Borisova	14 (10, 3, 1)
four	Matveeva	3 (0, 3, 0)
five	Pushina	10 (4, 6, 0)
7	Zvereva	1 (0, 0, 1)
eight	Pipunyrova	4 (2, 0, 2)
ten	Slutty
eleven	Brovkina	8 (4, 3, 1)
12	Sobolev
15	Shevchuk	8 (6, 1, 1)
18	Yakushina	8 (5, 3, 0)
Trainer - Alexander Karikov

Symbolic Team and MVP

MVP	Binder	Diagonal	Gamers	Blocking	Libero
Valeria Battista ^[2]	Polina Matveeva	Magdalena Styysyak	Olivia Baluk Derya Jabecioglu	Victoria Pushina Sarah Louise Far	Sarah Panetoni

Final position

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy Valeria Battista Jessica jolie Fatim Yassimina Kone Adhuolok Malual Rachele Morello Catches Omorui Sarah Panetoni Alessia Populini Benedetta Sartori Francesca Chipped Alice Tanase Sarah Louise Far Trainer : Massimo Bellano	Russia Alexandra Borisova Julia Brovkina Olga Zvereva Tatyana Kadochkina Polina Matveeva Ekaterina Pipunyrova Victoria Pushina Veronica Slutty Irina Soboleva Valeria Shevchuk Varvara Shepeleva Oksana Yakushina Trainer : Alexander Karikov	Poland Olivia Baluk Carolina Garstka Zuzanna Guretskaya Alexandra Gryka Paulina Damascus Paulina Zaborovskaya Claudia Laskovskaya Magdalena Styysyak Veronica Centa Natalia Tseselskaya Julia Schurovskaya Monica Jagla Trainer : Waldemar Kavka

four	Turkey
five	Serbia
6	Germany
7	Netherlands
eight	Belarus
9	Bulgaria
ten	Slovakia
eleven	France
12	Albania

The national teams of Italy and Russia guaranteed themselves participation in the 2019 World Championship among youth teams.

Notes

↑ Draw for # EuroVolleyU19W produces pools for Septembers Final Round in Albania . European Volleyball Confederation (May 9, 2018). Date of appeal September 9, 2018.
↑ Italy crowned # EuroVolleyU19W champions after great comeback . European Volleyball Confederation (September 9, 2018). Date of appeal September 10, 2018.

Links

Tournament on the site of the European Volleyball Confederation (English)

[1] Draw for # EuroVolleyU19W produces pools for Septembers Final Round in Albania . European Volleyball Confederation (May 9, 2018). Date of appeal September 9, 2018.

[2] Italy crowned # EuroVolleyU19W champions after great comeback . European Volleyball Confederation (September 9, 2018). Date of appeal September 10, 2018.