The 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Charleroi and Hasselt of Belgium and Luxembourg City of Luxembourg from 20 to 30 September 2007.
Participating teams
TeamMethod of qualification 2005 edition fourth place Qualification play-offs Hosts Qualification group D winners Qualification group F winners Qualification group B winners Qualification play-offs Qualification group C winners 2005 edition second place 2005 edition fifth place 2005 edition first place 2005 edition third place Qualification group E winners Qualification play-offs Qualification group A winners 2005 edition sixth place
Format The tournament was played in three different stages. In the first stage, the sixteen participants were divided in four groups (A, B, C and D) of four teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position; the three best teams of each group (total of 12 teams) progressed to the second stage.
The second stage of the tournament consisted of two groups of six teams each. As the first stage match results amongst the teams which advanced to this stage also counted, the two groups had been predetermined, one group formed by groups A and C teams while the other was formed by groups B and D teams. In each of the two groups, the teams played once against every opponent they had not faced in the tournament (total of three matches each), adding that to the results obtained against the other two teams who also advanced from the first stage same group. The two group winners and two runners-up from this second stage advanced to the third stage.
The third and final stage of the tournament was composed of the semifinals, third place match and final. Each of the semifinals was played between the winner and the runner-up of the same second stage group.
Pools composition Pool APool BPool CPool D
Squads
Venues The tournament was played at three venues in three cities, of which two were in Belgium and one in Luxembourg. Group stages were held in Belgium and Luxembourg hosted the final round.
Pools A, C and EPools B, D and FFinal round Charleroi, Belgium Hasselt, Belgium Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Spiroudome Sporthal Alverberg d'Coque Capacity: 6,300 Capacity: 1,700 Capacity: 8,300
Preliminary round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool A venue: Spiroudome, Charleroi, Belgium
Pool B venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium
Pool C venue: Spiroudome, Charleroi, Belgium
Pool D venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium
Playoff round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool E venue: Spiroudome, Charleroi, Belgium
The following Preliminary round matches are also valid for the pool standings:
Pool F venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium
The following Preliminary round matches are also valid for the pool standings:
Final round venue: d'Coque, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Ranking and statistics
Final ranking Place Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
+ Team Roster: Simona Gioli, Paola Croce, Valentina Fiorin, Martina Guiggi, Jenny Barazza, Manuela Secolo, Taismary Agüero, Francesca Ferretti, Eleonora Lo Bianco, Antonella Del Core and Paola Cardullo.Head coach: Massimo Barbolini.
Individual awards MVP: Best scorer: Best spiker: Best blocker: Best server: Best libero: Best setter: Best receiver:
References Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)
External links Official website CEV Results Results at todor66.com