2020 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup

The 2020 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was originally to be held as the third edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, an annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. Tournament was scheduled to be held in Zadar, Croatia.[1][2] On 8 May 2020, FVIB announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

2020 Women's Challenger Cup
Tournament details
Host nation Croatia
CityZadar
DatesCancelled
24–28 June
Teams6
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)

The winner will earn the right to participate in the 2021 Nations League replacing the last placed challenger team after the 2020 edition.

Qualification

Venue
All matches
Zadar, Croatia
Krešimir Ćosić Hall
Capacity: 8,500

Pools composition

Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 21 October 2018.[4] 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 25th.

Pool A Pool B
 Croatia (25)  Bulgaria (20)

See also

References
  1. "Croatia to host the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup 2020". fivb.com. 24 January 2020.
  2. "Zadar domaćin prestižnog Challenger kupa" (in Croatian). zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr. 24 January 2020.
  3. "FIVB announces cancellation of VNL 2020". fivb.com. 8 May 2020.
  4. "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Women (as of 1 February 2019)". FIVB. 21 October 2019.
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