Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification

The 2020 Women's European Olympic Qualification Tournament was a volleyball tournament for women's national teams held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 7 to 12 January 2020. 8 teams played in the tournament and the winners Turkey qualified to the 2020 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament.[1]

2020 Women's European Olympic Qualification Tournament

Tournament details
Host nation	Netherlands
City	Apeldoorn
Dates	7–12 January
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Turkey (1st title)
Tournament awards
MVP	Meryem Boz
Official website

Pools composition

The hosts Netherlands and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV National Team Ranking as of 9 September 2019 which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Olympic Games competed in this tournament. Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system. Rankings are shown in brackets.[2][3]

Pool A	Pool B
Netherlands (3)	Turkey (4)
Bulgaria (7)	Germany (6)
Poland (8)	Belgium (9)
Azerbaijan (11)	Croatia (10)

Squads

Venue

All matches
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Omnisport Arena
Capacity: 2,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. 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 Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Poland	3	0	9	9	2	4.500	196	177	1.107
2	Netherlands	2	1	6	7	3	2.333	242	223	1.085
3	Bulgaria	1	2	3	4	7	0.571	244	263	0.928
4	Azerbaijan	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	152	171	0.889

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Jan	16:00	Poland	3–1	Bulgaria	23–25	25–20	25–19	25–22		98–86	Report
7 Jan	19:30	Azerbaijan	0–3	Netherlands	23–25	18–25	22–25			63–75	Report
8 Jan	19:30	Bulgaria	0–3	Netherlands	19–25	19–25	24–26			62–76	Report
9 Jan	16:00	Bulgaria	3–1	Azerbaijan	25–23	25–19	21–25	25–22		96–89	Report
9 Jan	19:30	Netherlands	1–3	Poland	20–25	23–25	25–23	23–25		91–98	Report
10 Jan	20:00	Poland	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–19	25–19	25–23			75–61	Report

Pool B

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Germany	3	0	9	9	2	4.500	279	240	1.163
2	Turkey	2	1	5	7	6	1.167	183	177	1.034
3	Belgium	1	2	4	6	7	0.857	201	197	1.020
4	Croatia	0	3	0	2	9	0.222	225	274	0.821

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Jan	13:00	Germany	3–1	Turkey	25–15	21–25	25–21	25–21		96–82	Report
8 Jan	13:00	Croatia	1–3	Turkey	28–26	12–25	20–25	21–25		81–101	Report
8 Jan	16:00	Belgium	1–3	Germany	31–33	24–26	26–24	22–25		103–108	Report
9 Jan	13:00	Belgium	3–1	Croatia	20–25	28–26	25–16	25–22		98–89	Report
10 Jan	13:30	Germany	3–0	Croatia	25–15	25–17	25–23			75–55	Report
10 Jan	16:30	Turkey	3–2	Belgium	25–20	25–15	20–25	22–25	15–10	107–95	Report

Final round

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

	Semifinals				Final
	11 January
	Poland	2
					12 January
	Turkey	3
					Turkey	3
	11 January
					Germany	0
	Germany	3
	Netherlands	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
11 Jan	17:15	Germany	3–0	Netherlands	27–25	25–23	25–22			77–70	Report
11 Jan	20:45	Poland	2–3	Turkey	25–19	18–25	25–23	31–33	11–15	110–115	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Jan	17:30	Turkey	3–0	Germany	25–17	25–19	25–22			75–58	Report

Final standing

Rank Team 1  Turkey 2  Germany 3  Poland 4  Netherlands 5  Belgium 6  Bulgaria 7  Croatia 8  Azerbaijan Qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player Meryem Boz Best Setter Joanna Wołosz Best Outside Spikers Hanna Orthmann Magdalena Stysiak

Best Middle Blockers Eda Erdem Dündar Robin de Kruijf Best Opposite Spiker Louisa Lippmann Best Libero Simge Şebnem Aköz

See also

• Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification

References

1. "Apeldoorn, the Netherlands to host women's Olympic qualifier". cev.eu. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
2. "CEV European Ranking List - Women (as per 09.09.2019)". cev.eu. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
3. Quliyev, Şamo (3 October 2019). "Rivals of Azerbaijan women's national volleyball team at European Qualifying Tournament named". report.az. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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