# 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup

The 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the second edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru.
Canada won the title, defeating the Czech Republic in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2020 Nations League replacing Bulgaria, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition. Argentina defeated Croatia in the 3rd place match.
On 8 May 2020, FIVB announced that the 2020 Nations League and 2020 Challenger Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic. So the tournament eventually became the 2021 Nations League qualifier.

## Qualification

A total of 6 teams qualified for the tournament.
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | Previous appearances | Previous appearances | Previous best performance |
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Total | First | Last | Previous best performance |
| Canada | NORCECA | North American Qualifier champions | 2 June 2019 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Chinese Taipei | AVC | 1st World ranked team from AVC | 12 June 2019 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Argentina | CSV | 1st World ranked team from CSV | 12 June 2019 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Peru | CSV | Host country | 17 June 2019 | 1 | 2018 | 2018 | 4th place (2018) |
| Czech Republic | CEV | 2019 Golden League champions | 22 June 2019 | 0 | None | None | None |
| Croatia | CEV | 2019 Golden League runner-up | 22 June 2019 | 0 | None | None | None |

### Note

    ^a No team from African Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.

## Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 21 October 2018. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 27th.
| Pool A | Pool B |
| Peru (Hosts) | Argentina (11) |
| Czech Republic (24) | Canada (18) |
| Croatia (30) | Chinese Taipei (33) |

## Venue

* Manuel Bonilla Stadium, Lima, Peru

## Pool standing procedure

* Number of matches won
* Match points
* Sets ratio
* Points ratio
* Result of the last match between the tied teams
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 Peru Time (UTC-05:00).

### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Czech Republic | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3.000 | 194 | 160 | 1.213 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Croatia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 168 | 189 | 0.889 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Peru | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0.333 | 186 | 199 | 0.935 | |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Total | Report |
| 26 Jun | 20:00 | Peru | 1–3 | Croatia | 23–25 | 25–19 | 17–25 | 29–31 | 94–100 | P2 Report |
| 27 Jun | 20:00 | Czech Republic | 3–1 | Croatia | 20–25 | 25–12 | 25–16 | 25–15 | 95–68 | P2 Report |
| 28 Jun | 20:00 | Peru | 1–3 | Czech Republic | 25–27 | 25–22 | 21–25 | 21–25 | 92–99 | P2 Report |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Canada | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | MAX | 150 | 116 | 1.293 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Argentina | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 142 | 140 | 1.014 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.000 | 114 | 150 | 0.760 | |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total | Report |
| 26 Jun | 17:00 | Argentina | 3–0 | Chinese Taipei | 25–22 | 25–22 | 25–21 | 75–65 | P2 Report |
| 27 Jun | 17:00 | Canada | 3–0 | Chinese Taipei | 25–16 | 25–17 | 25–16 | 75–49 | P2 Report |
| 28 Jun | 17:00 | Argentina | 0–3 | Canada | 23–25 | 21–25 | 23–25 | 67–75 | P2 Report |

## Final round

* All times are Peru Time (UTC-05:00).
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 29 June – Lima | 29 June – Lima |
| Czech Republic | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 30 June – Lima | 30 June – Lima |
| Argentina | 0 | 30 June – Lima | 30 June – Lima |
| Argentina | 0 | Czech Republic | 2 |
| 29 June – Lima | 29 June – Lima | | Czech Republic | 2 |
| 29 June – Lima | 29 June – Lima | Canada | 3 |
| Canada | 3 | Canada | 3 |
| Croatia | 0 | | |
| Croatia | 0 | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| | | 30 June – Lima | 30 June – Lima |
| | | Argentina | 3 |
| | | Croatia | 0 |

### Semifinals

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 29 Jun | 17:00 | Czech Republic | 3–0 | Argentina | 25–16 | 25–19 | 25–23 | | | 75–58 | P2 Report |
| 29 Jun | 20:00 | Canada | 3–0 | Croatia | 25–18 | 25–20 | 26–24 | | | 76–62 | P2 Report |

### 3rd place match

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 30 Jun | 16:00 | Argentina | 3–0 | Croatia | 25–19 | 25–18 | 25–14 | | | 75–51 | P2 Report |

### Final

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total | Report |
| 30 Jun | 19:00 | Czech Republic | 2–3 | Canada | 17–25 | 16–25 | 25–21 | 25–23 | 8–15 | 91–109 | P2 Report |

## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| | Canada |
| | Czech Republic |
| | Argentina |
| 4 | Croatia |
| 5 | Peru |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei |
* Qualified for the 2021 Nations League
* 2019 Women's Challenger Cup champions
* Canada First title
* 14–women Roster
* Kyla Richey (c), Jessica Niles, Autumn Bailey, Kiera Van Ryk, Danielle Smith, Alicia Ogoms, Alexa Lea Gray, Andrea Mitrovic, Jennifer Cross, Shainah Joseph, Kristen Moncks, Alicia Perrin, Megan Cyr, Emily Maglio
* Head coach
* Thomas Black