The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship was the 21st edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Belgium and Netherlands, making it the first time that the tournament was jointly hosted by more than one country.

The defending champions, Japan, withdrew from the event.

Qualification A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Belgium and Netherlands, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams qualified via five separate continental tournaments which were required to be held by 31 December 2020 at the latest. However, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent impact on some Confederations’ ability to organize the events within the given deadline, the FIVB 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 events, teams were to qualify according to the respective Continental Rankings. The remaining 4 teams qualified via the FIVB Junior World Ranking.

Means of qualification Date Venue Vacancies QualifierHost countries13 October 2020 Lausanne22020 European Championship 22–30 August 2020 Zenica Osijek 2 2018 Asian Championship 10–17 June 2018 Bac Ninh and Tu Son 2 1* 2020 NORCECA Championship 14–22 February 2021 United States 2 **2020 African Championship 18–26 February 2021 Kampala 2 2020 South American Championship Brazil 2 FIVB Junior World Ranking As per 1 March 2021 Lausanne 4+1* Total 16 * China and Japan withdrew from the competition. Thailand entered by the 3rd place at the Asian Volleyball Championship and Belarus entered by the world ranking.

** Cuba was forced to withdraw from the competition due to COVID-19 infections and was replaced by Puerto Rico.

Pools composition Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U20 World Ranking as of 1 March 2021. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pools A and B regardless of the U20 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U20 World Ranking. The draw was held on 14 June 2021. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked both 22nd.

Seeded teamsPot 1Pot 2 (Hosts) (Hosts) (1) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (9) (10) (12) (15) (16)* (17) (18) (44) Pool APool BPool CPool D********** * Cuba withdrew due to COVID-19 concerns and was replaced by Puerto Rico.

** The teams changed their groups after the draw because a policy about immigration of Belgium ban the people from Argentina, Brazil and Russia.

Squads

Venues

Rotterdam (Pool A, Pool C, Pool E, Pool G) Kortrijk (Pool B, Pool D, Pool F, Pool H)Sportcentrum SchuttersveldSportcampus Lange MunteCapacity: 5000Capacity: 5000No ImageNo Image

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 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Classification 1–8

Pool E

Pool F

Classification 9–16

Pool G

Pool H

Final round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Classification 13th–16th

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

Classification 9th–12th

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

Classification 5th–8th

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing RankTeam 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Awards

Most valuable player Gaia Guiducci Best setter Gaia Guiducci Best outside spikers Loveth Omoruyi Jolien Knollema Best middle blockers Emma Graziani Hena Kurtagić Best opposite spiker Vita Akimova Best libero Martina Armini

See also 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

References

External links Official website