2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship

The 2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship was the 19th staging of the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the (FIVB). The Netherlands and Poland were dual hosts for this event.

Serbia won their second title for the consecutive edition, beating Brazil in straight sets. Italy took the bronze medal defeating USA. Tijana Bošković was again the recipient of the MVP award of the tournament.

Host selection On 19 January 2019, FIVB announced that Netherlands and Poland were selected as dual hosts for this event. It is the first time that the women's World Championship has been hosted by two countries.

Qualification

The host countries Netherlands and Poland automatically qualified for the competition as well as the current world champions Serbia. The top two teams from each of the 2021 Continental Championships secured qualification. The final 11 places belonged to top 11 teams as per FIVB World Ranking who had not yet qualified.

On 1 March 2022, FIVB declared Russia and Belarus ineligible to compete in international and continental competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Russia were out of the championship. After Russia was removed from the competition, Croatia was invited to compete as the next highest ranked team in the World Ranking.

Squads

Venues First roundSecond roundFinal roundArnhemRotterdamApeldoornGelreDome Arena (GDA)Ahoy Arena (AHA)Omnisport Arena (OMA) Capacity: 21,248 Capacity: 16,426 Capacity: 6,525First roundFirst round, Second roundFinal roundGdańskŁódźGliwiceErgo Arena (ERA)Atlas Arena (ATA)Gliwice Arena (GLA) Capacity: 11,409 Capacity: 13,805 Capacity: 13,752

Format

First round In the first round, the 24 teams were spread across four pools of six teams playing in a round-robin system. The top four teams from each pool advanced to the second round.

Second round In the second round, the 16 teams were allocated in two pools of eight teams (top teams from first round pools A and D in one and top teams from pools B and C in the other). Once again a round-robin system was used in each pool, teams coming from the same first round pool (therefore already played each other) only played against opponents from a different first round pool. The second round standings took the results in the first and second rounds into account. The top four teams of each group advanced to the final round.

Final round The top four teams of each pool played in quarterfinals. The winners advanced to semifinals. The semifinals winners advanced to compete for the World Championship title. The losers faced each other in the third place match.

Pools composition

First round Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as per end of 2021. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A and B. The better ranked hosted team (10) allocated to pool A, and another team (12) allocated to pool B. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines following the World Ranking.

Seeded TeamsPot 1Pot 2 (Co-hosts) (Co-hosts) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (9) (11) (13) Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5 (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (28)

Draw Pool APool BPool CPool D

Second round

Pool E (Pool A 1st) (Pool D 1st) (Pool A 2nd) (Pool D 2nd) (Pool A 3rd) (Pool D 3rd) (Pool A 4th) (Pool D 4th)

Pool F (Pool B 1st) (Pool C 1st) (Pool B 2nd) (Pool C 2nd) (Pool B 3rd) (Pool C 3rd) (Pool B 4th) (Pool C 4th)

Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

First round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The top four teams in each pool qualified for the second phase.

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The top four teams qualified for the final phase. The results of all the matches in the first round were taken into account for this round.

Pool E

Pool F

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

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam456789101112131415161718192021222324 Qualified for the 2025 World Championship Source: WCH 2022 final standings

Team roster Bianka Buša, Katarina Lazović, Bojana Drča, Mina Popović, Slađana Mirković, Brankica Mihajlović, Teodora Pušić, Ana Bjelica, Maja Aleksić, Jovana Stevanović, Aleksandra Jegdić, Tijana Bošković (c), Bojana Milenković, Sara Lozo Head coach Daniele Santarelli

Awards

Most valuable player

Best setter

Best outside spikers

Best opposite spiker

Best middle blockers

Best libero

Statistics leaders

Statistics leaders correct as of final round.Statistics

Best ScorersPlayerSpikesBlocksServesTotal1 Paola Egonu2442382752 Magdalena Stysiak1973592413 Tijana Bošković2191382404 Britt Herbots2031182225 Gabriela Guimarães20068214

Best SpikersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Paola Egonu2447717349.394942 Tijana Bošković2194912655.583943 Britt Herbots2035624840.045074 Gabriela Guimarães2004818745.984355 Magdalena Stysiak1976715646.90420

Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Ana Carolina da Silva5948554.921622 Anna Danesi4230813.501533 Neira Ortiz3939434.331214 Magdalena Stysiak352813.50645 Agnieszka Kąkolewska3433103.4077

Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Caterina Bosetti18121141.501442 Andrea Drews18251161.501593 Jordyn Poulter1410961.171204 Mayu Ishikawa1415961.401255 Gaila González1324941.44131

Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Alessia Orro144793012.0010812 Joanna Wołosz140581314.009583 Diao Linyu1351178213.509284 Victoria Mayer126383614.009655 Nanami Seki1174102911.701150

Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Monica De Gennaro168492414.002412 Gabriela Guimarães10641258.831723 Caterina Bosetti982688.171324 Kotona Hayashi9139199.101495 Myrthe Schoot90343010.00154

Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Gabriela Guimarães101413941.392442 Miriam Sylla96921729.813223 Li Yingying8698846.991834 Yamila Nizetich841417031.342685 Priscila Daroit801715132.26248

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