2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship

The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship will be the 18th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship, the biennial international youth volleyball championship contested by the women's national teams under the age of 19 of the members associations of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It will be held in Croatia and Hungary from 1 to 11 August 2023.[1]

2023 FIVB Volleyball
Girls' U19 World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Croatia
 Hungary
CityOsijek
Szeged
Dates1–11 August 2023
Teams24
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)

This will be the first edition with under-19 national teams after FIVB decided, in March 2022, to move the age category of the girls' championship from U18 to U19 in order to align it with the Boys' U19 World Championship. Athletes should be born on or after 1 January 2005.[2][3]

Hosts selection

On 2 June 2022, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2023 (i.e., Boys' and Girls' U19 World Championships and Men's and Women's U21 World Championships).[4] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 29 July 2022, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).[5]

FIVB announced the hosts for its four Age Group World Championship on 24 January 2023,[1] with the joint bid of Croatia and Hungary being selected to host the 2023 Girls' U19 World Championship.[6][7] This will be the first time that the FIVB Girls' U19 World Championship is co-hosted by two countries and the second time that Croatia hosts the tournament having previously done in 2001. For its part, Hungary will host a FIVB tournament of any category for the first time.

Qualification

Originally, a total of 20 national teams were going to qualify for the final tournament.[5] However, in January 2023, FIVB confirmed an increase in participating teams from 20 to 24 in order to "facilitate the co-hosting".[1]

In addition to Croatia and Hungary which qualified automatically as the hosts, 19 other teams qualified through five separate continental competitions which had to be completed by 31 December 2022 at the latest. The remaining 3 teams entered to the competition by the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking (excluding teams from the CEV) among the teams not yet qualified.[8][9][10]

The slot allocation was setted as follow:[5]

Note
  1. ^
    † Slots added after the hosts selection and the subsequent increase in number of participating teams.
Confederation Qualifying tournament Team qualified Appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
AVC
(Asia & Oceania)		 2022 Asian Girls' U18 Championship
(Thailand Nakhon Pathom, 6–23 June)		  Japan 15th 1989 2019 Champions (1995, 1999)
 China 13th 1995 2019 Champions (2001, 2003, 2007, 2013)
 South Korea 13th 1989 2019 Champions (1991)
 Thailand 10th 1997 2021 Fifth place (1997)
CAVB
(Africa)		 2022 Girls' African Nations Championship U19
(Nigeria Abuja, 2–5 September)		  Egypt 10th 1993 2021 Ninth place (1993, 2005)
 Cameroon 3rd 2019 2021 Nineteenth place (2019, 2021)
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking[11]  Nigeria 3rd 1997 2021 Thirteenth place (1997)
CEV
(Europe)		 2022 Girls' U17 European Championship
(Czech Republic Hradec Králové, 16–24 July)		  Italy 15th 1995 2021 Champions (2015, 2017)
 Turkey 11th 1993 2021 Champions (2011)
 Germany 6th 2007 2017 Fifth place (2011)
 Serbia 9th 2003 2021 Runners-up (2009)
 Poland 11th 1991 2021 Third place (2001)
 Bulgaria 5th 1989 2021 Fifth place (1989)
Host nations  Croatia 5th 1999 2005 Fifth place (2003)
 Hungary 2nd 2003 2003 Thirteenth place (2003)
CSV
(South America)		 2022 Girls' U19 South American Championship
(Bolivia La Paz, 2–7 October)		  Argentina 13th 1989 2021 Seventh place (1991, 2017)
 Brazil 18th (all) 1989 2021 Champions (1997, 2005, 2009)
 Chile 1st Debut None
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking[12]  Peru 10th 1989 2021 Fourth place (1993, 2013)
NORCECA
(North, Central America and Caribbean)		 2022 Girls' Youth Pan-American Cup
(United States Tulsa, 18–23 July)		  United States 13th 1989 2021 Champions (2019)
 Dominican Republic 9th 1997 2021 Runners-up (2017)
 Puerto Rico 8th 1991 2021 Tenth place (1991)
 Mexico 11th 1993 2021 Ninth place (1993, 2009)
Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking[10]  Canada 4th 1989 2021 Eleventh place (1989)

Pools composition

The draw for the pools composition was held on 31 March 2023 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.[13] The 24 teams were split into four pools of six. The hosts Croatia and Hungary and the top six teams of the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking in force at that time (as of 24 October 2022) were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system. FIVB reserved the right to seed the host teams as heads of pools A and B regardless of their position in the World Ranking. The remaining 16 teams were divided into four pots of four, according to their position in the same Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking, in order to be drawn to complete the following four positions in each pool.[9]

Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking of each team as of 24 October 2022 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Hungary and Croatia who ranked 35th and 36th, respectively.[14]

Seeded teams Teams to be drawn
Line 1 Line 2 Pot 1 (line 3) Pot 2 (line 4) Pot 3 (line 5) Pot 4 (line 6)
  •  Japan (17)
  •  Nigeria (18)
  •  China (19)
  •  Canada (20)

The draw procedure also followed the serpentine system and was as follows:[9]

  • Teams from pot 1 were drawn first and were placed in line 3 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.
  • Teams from pot 2 were then drawn and placed in line 4 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
  • Teams from pot 3 were then drawn and placed in line 5 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.
  • Teams from pot 4 were drawn at the end and were placed in line 6 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:[15]

Pool A
PosTeam
A1 Hungary
A2 Argentina
A3 Egypt
A4 Cameroon
A5 China
A6 Chile
Pool B
PosTeam
B1 Croatia
B2 Turkey
B3 Dominican Republic
B4 Puerto Rico
B5 Nigeria
B6 Germany
Pool C
PosTeam
C1 Italy
C2 Brazil
C3 Thailand
C4 Peru
C5 Canada
C6 Bulgaria
Pool D
PosTeam
D1 United States
D2 Serbia
D3 Poland
D4 Mexico
D5 Japan
D6 South Korea

See also

References
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  2. "New regulations for age group categories adopted by FIVB". NORCECA. 30 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022.
  3. "AVC GOES AHEAD WITH ADJUSTMENT OF 2022 AVC AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS NAKHON PATHOM TO HOST 2 AVC EVENTS IN JUNE". asianvolleyball.net. Asian Volleyball Confederation. 14 April 2022. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022.
  4. "FIVB Opens Bidding Process For 2023 International Age-Group Events". FIVB. 2 June 2022.
  5. "FIVB VOLLEYBALL AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023 Expression of Interest and Organisational Conditions for Future Organisers" (PDF). FIVB. 2 June 2022.
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  9. "Drawing of Lots - FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship Croatia-Hungary 2023". FIVB. 31 March 2023 – via YouTube.
  10. "Participating Teams Revealed For FIVB Age Group World Championships 2023". FIVB. 24 March 2023.
  11. Shehu, Idris (31 January 2023). "Nigeria's U19 female team to take part in world volleyball championship". TheCable.
  12. "Selección peruana de vóley accedió al Mundial Femenino Sub-19" (in Spanish). Ovación. 2 February 2023.
  13. "Get ready for age-group World Championship draws next Friday". en.volleyballworld.com. FIVB. 25 March 2023.
  14. "FIVB WORLD RANKING - GIRLS' U19 As per 24 October 2022". FIVB. 24 October 2022.
  15. "Exciting Match-Ups Drawn As Age Group World Championship Pools Determined". FIVB. 31 March 2023.
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