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

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
CEV.eu

Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 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.

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.

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

Squads

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

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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

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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