2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League explained

The 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the sixth edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held from 14 May to 23 June 2024 and the final round took place at Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, Thailand.^[1]

Following the results of the 2023 Nations League and the 2023 Challenger Cup, Croatia were replaced by debutants France in this edition.^[2]

Italy claimed their second VNL title after defeating Japan in a four-set final. Japan took the silver medal, which is their best result in this tournament. Poland retained the bronze medal after defeating Brazil in a five-set 3rd place match.^[3] Paola Egonu of Italy named as the MVP of the tournament.^[4]

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Eleven of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other five teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament. France replaced Croatia after winning the 2023 Challenger Cup. In a change of format for the next edition, none of current teams will be relegated and from the year 2025 onwards, the competition will consist from 18 teams. The two extra spots will be from the team that wins the 2024 Challenger Cup and the best FIVB ranked team who are not in this year event.^[5]

Country	Confederation	Designation	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
	CSV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Runners-up (2019, 2021, 2022)
	CEV	Challenger team	3	2019	2023	13th place (2023)
	NORCECA	Challenger team	3	2021	2023	10th place (2023)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	Runners-up (2023)
	NORCECA	Challenger team	5	2018	2023	6th place (2021)
	CEV	Challenger team	0	None	None
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	8th place (2023)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2022)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	4th place (2021)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	5th place (2018)
	CEV	Challenger team	5	2018	2023	3rd place (2023)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	3rd place (2022)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	12th place (2018)
	AVC	Core team	5	2018	2023	8th place (2022)
	CEV	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2023)
	NORCECA	Core team	5	2018	2023	Champions (2018, 2019, 2021)

Format

Preliminary round

The format of play is the same as edition 2022's. The new format will see 16 women's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. The participating teams were ranked from 1st to 16th in the FIVB world rankings after the end of the last edition, and each team will play a total of 12 matches during the preliminary round over 3 weeks, against equally strong opponents – 3 matches against teams ranked 1st to 4th, 3 matches against teams ranked 5th to 8th, 3 matches against teams ranked 9th to 12th, and 3 matches against teams ranked 13th to 16th. The eight best teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition. However, this rule is only applied if the finals host country advances as part of this group. In this does not happen, the 7 best teams advance.^[6]

Final round

The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches.

Final 8 direct elimination formula:

• The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team.
• The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation does not finish in the top eight in Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.

Pool composition

The overview of pools was released on 8 December 2023.^[7]

Week 1		Week 2		Week 3
width=16%	Pool 1 Turkey	width=16%	Pool 2 Brazil	width=16%	Pool 3 Macau, China	width=16%	Pool 4 United States	width=16%	Pool 5 Hong Kong, China	width=16%	Pool 6 Japan

Venues

Preliminary round

width=100% colspan=2	Week 1
width=50%	Pool 1	width=50%	Pool 2
Antalya, Turkey	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Antalya Sports Hall	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 11,800
width=100% colspan=2	Week 2
width=50%	Pool 3	width=50%	Pool 4
Macau, China	Arlington, Texas, United States
Galaxy Arena
Capacity: 16,000	Capacity: 7,000
width=100% colspan=2	Week 3
width=50%	Pool 5	width=50%	Pool 6
Hong Kong, China	Fukuoka, Japan
Hong Kong Coliseum
Capacity: 12,500	Capacity: 7,900

Final round

All matches
Bangkok, Thailand
Indoor Stadium Huamark
Capacity: 8,000

Competition schedule

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Preliminary round

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Final round

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most points 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
3. 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:
   • Sets 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 sets won by the number of all sets lost.
   • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets 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 points 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 points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

See main article: 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League squads.

Preliminary round

Ranking

Week 1

Pool 1

• All times are Turkey Standard Time .

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Pool 2

• All times are Brasília Time .

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Week 2

Pool 3

• All times are Macau Standard Time .

Pool 4

• All times are Central Daylight Time .

Week 3

Pool 5

• All times are Hong Kong Time .

Pool 6

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Final round

• All times are Thailand Standard Time .

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final standing

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Source: VNL 2024 final standings

14–woman roster
Marina Lubian, Alice Degradi, Carlotta Cambi, Ilaria Spirito, Monica De Gennaro, Alessia Orro, Caterina Bosetti, Anna Danesi (c), Sara Bonifacio, Myriam Sylla, Paola Egonu, Sarah Luisa Fahr, Ekaterina Antropova, Gaia Giovannini
Head coach
Julio Velasco

Awards

• Most valuable player

• Best setter

• Best outside spikers

• Best middle blocker

• Best opposite spiker

• Best libero

• Fair play team award

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Statistics leaders correct as of Week 3 of preliminary round.^[8]

Best Scorers
	width=200	Player	width=20	Attacks	width=20	Blocks	width=20	Serves	width=20	Total
1	Melissa Vargas	217	18	19	254
2	Kiera Van Ryk	212	12	12	236
3	Sarina Koga	197	7	11	215
4	Li Yingying	192	8	13	213
5	Alexa Gray	183	9	13	205

Best Attackers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Spikes	width=20	Faults	width=20	Shots	width=20		width=20
1	Melissa Vargas	217	66	152	49.89	435
2	Kiera Van Ryk	212	88	176	44.54	476
3	Sarina Koga	197	45	258	39.40	500
4	Li Yingying	192	54	174	45.71	420
5	Alexa Gray	183	62	229	38.61	329

Best Blockers
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20	Rebounds	width=20		width=20
1	Ana Carolina da Silva	33	34	42	2.75	109
2	Hena Kurtagić	33	39	57	4.12	129
3	Emily Maglio	32	59	82	2.67	173
4	Aslı Kalaç	29	39	72	2.42	140
5	Wang Yuanyuan	28	37	66	2.33	131

Best Servers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Aces	width=20	Faults	width=20	Hits	width=20		width=20
1	Camilla Weitzel	19	17	130	1.58	166
2	Melissa Vargas	19	26	106	1.58	151
3	Ekaterina Antropova	14	29	59	1.17	102
4	Chatchu-on Moksri	14	22	123	1.17	159
5	Merelin Nikolova	14	13	64	1.75	91

Best Setters
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Diao Linyu	277	7	737	23.08	1021
2	Brie King	273	10	909	22.75	1185
3		254	12	670	21.17	936
4	Koyomi Iwasaki	241	10	794	20.08	1045
5	Pia Kästner	215	9	484	26.88	708

Best Diggers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Digs	width=20	Faults	width=20	Receptions	width=20		width=20
1	Kiera Van Ryk	147	44	21	12.25	212
2	Aleksandra Szczygłowska	140	40	19	11.67	199
3	Wang Mengjie	135	39	17	11.25	191
4		134	45	20	11.17	199
5	Sarina Koga	130	22	14	10.83	166

Best Receivers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Excellents	width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1	Kotona Hayashi	90	10	126	39.82	226
2	Chatchu-on Moksri	85	20	224	25.84	329
3	Lena Stigrot	83	22	238	24.20	343
4		82	22	232	24.40	336
5	Alexa Gray	71	17	280	19.29	368

Final round

Statistics leaders correct as of final round.^[9]

Best Scorers
	width=200	Player	width=20	Attacks	width=20	Blocks	width=20	Serves	width=20	Total
1
2
3
4
5

Best Attackers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Spikes	width=20	Faults	width=20	Shots	width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

Best Blockers
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20	Rebounds	width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

Best Servers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Aces	width=20	Faults	width=20	Hits	width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

Best Setters
	width=158	Player	width=20		width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

Best Diggers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Digs	width=20	Faults	width=20	Receptions	width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

Best Receivers
	width=158	Player	width=20	Excellents	width=20	Faults	width=20		width=20		width=20
1
2
3
4
5

See also

• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics

External links

• • Fédération Internationale de Volleyball FIVB

Notes and References

1. Web site: Women's VNL Finals to be played in Bangkok . 2 February 2024 . Volleyball World . 2 February 2024.
2. Web site: French Women's Volleyball Team Conquers 2023 Challenger Cup; Earns Spot in 2024 Nations League . Volleyball World . 20 January 2024 . 30 July 2023 . 20 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240120055130/https://worldofvolley.com/latest_news/fivb/318321/french-womens-volleyball-team-conquers-2023-challenger-cup-earns-spot-in-2024-nations-league.html . live.
3. Web site: Egonu leads Italy to their second VNL title, Japan settles for historic silver . volleyballworld . 25 June 2024 . 23 June 2024 . 25 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625203726/https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/news/egonu-leads-italy-to-their-second-vnl-title-japan-settles-for-historic-silver . live .
4. Web site: Paola Egonu earns yet another MVP award . volleyballworld . 25 June 2024 . 23 June 2024 . 25 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625204122/https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/news/paola-egonu-earns-yet-another-mvp-award . live .
5. Web site: Pareja . Marcos Menocal . Volleyball Nations League (VNL) to feature 18 teams from 2025 . 15 June 2024 . . 14 February 2024.
6. Web site: VNL 2024 Competition Formula . Volleyball World . 20 January 2024 . 20 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240120055438/https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/competition/formula . live.
7. VNL 2024 To Take The Elite Of The Sport To Four Continents . 8 December 2023 . . 14 December 2023 . 14 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231214104725/https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/vnl-2024-to-take-the-elite-of?id=101167 . live.
8. Web site: Women's Statistics – 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League . Volleyball World . 20 May 2024.
9. Web site: Women's Finals Statistics – 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League . volleyballworld . 23 June 2024.

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