The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship was the 17th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 18 of the members of the (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Durango City, Mexico. Mexico were chosen as the hosts for this event for the second time after previously hosting the 2007 tournament.

United States were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Italy.

Qualification A total of 20 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Mexico who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 19 teams qualified from five separate continental competitions, which were held by 31 December 2020 at the latest. However, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent impact on some Confederations’ ability to organise the events within the given deadline, the FIVB has decided to postpone the deadline for continental qualifications to 28 February 2021. Additionally, in the case of no Continental Confederations being able to hold qualifying event, teams qualified according to the respective Continental Rankings.

Means of qualificationDateVenueVacanciesQualifierHost country 2020 Lausanne 1 2020 European Championship 1–9 October 2020 Podgorica 6 NORCECA Ranking 4 2018 Asian Championship 20–27 May Nakhon Pathom 1 2020 African Championship March 2021 Abuja 2 South American Ranking 3 FIVB World Ranking 3 ***Total 20 * Japan, China, and South Korea withdrew from the competition. Bulgaria, Egypt and Slovakia entered by the world ranking.

Pools composition Pool APool BPool CPool D (22), (Host) (1) (2) (3) (9) (8) (6) (4) (12) (10) (11) (13) (17) (14) (18) (15) (20) (52) (20) (24)

Pool standing procedure Number of matches won Match points Sets ratio Points ratio If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round All times are Mexico Central Daylight Time (UTC-05:00).

17th–18th places

Final sixteen

Round of 16

9th–16th quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

13th–16th semifinals

9th–12th semifinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standings

RankTeam45678910111213141516171819

12–women rosterNatalia Suvorova, Anastasiia Kapralova, Victoria Demidova, Irina Artiukhina, Daria Zamanskaia, Alina Rubtsova, Alina Popova, Oksana Shvydkaia, Viktoriia Kobzar, Anna Khabibrakhmanova, Anastasiia Zhabrova, Varvara SergeevaHead coachAlexander Karikov

Awards

Most valuable player Natalia Suvorova Best setter Viktoriia Kobzar Best outside spikers Julia Ituma Mckenna Wucherer Best middle blockers Natalia Suvorova Hena Kurtagić Best opposite spiker Giulia Viscioni Best libero Emma Barbero

See also 2021 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

References

External links Official website