2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup

2017 Women's World Grand Champions Cup
Tournament details
Host nation	Japan
Dates	5–10 September
Teams	6 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
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FIVB World Grand Champions Cup

The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup will be the 7th staging of the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup, a quadrennial international women's volleyball tournament organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The tournament will be held in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan from 5 to 10 September 2017. 6 national teams are expected to compete.^[1]

Qualification

The FIVB announed the best four ranked continents in the 2016 Olympic Games were eligible to participate in the tournament. Asia, Europe, North America, and South America confederations were eligible to send representstives. The representatives were determined by their continental ranking at the Olympic tournament. The four teams will join the host team and a wild card team which to compete for the World Grand Champion Cup title.^[1]

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Previous appearances
			Total	First	Last
Japan	AVC	Host nation	6	1993	2013
China	AVC	The first continental representative	4	1993	2005
Russia	CEV	The second continental representative	4	1993	2013
United States	NORCECA	The third continental representative	4	1993	2013
Brazil	CSV	The fourth continental representative	5	1997	2013
South Korea	AVC	Wild card	4	1997	2009

Venues

Nagoya round	Osaka round
Nagoya, Japan	Osaka, Japan
Nippon Gaishi Hall	Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 5,932

Competition formula

The competition formula of the 2017 Women's World Grand Champions Cup was a single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the five remaining teams. Points were accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing was determined by the total points gained.

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

		Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
	Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX
	China	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX
	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX
	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX
	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX
	United States	0	0	0	0	0	MAX	0	0	MAX

Tokyo round

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
5 Sep	12:40	Russia	–	Brazil	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
5 Sep	15:40	United States	–	China	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
5 Sep	19:15	Japan	–	South Korea	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
6 Sep	12:40	Brazil	–	China	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
6 Sep	15:40	South Korea	–	United States	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
6 Sep	19:15	Russia	–	Japan	–	–	–			–	P2 P3

Nagoya round

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
8 Sep	12:40	United States	–	Russia	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
8 Sep	15:40	China	–	South Korea	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
8 Sep	19:15	Japan	–	Brazil	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
9 Sep	12:40	Russia	–	China	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
9 Sep	15:40	Brazil	–	South Korea	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
9 Sep	19:15	Japan	–	United States	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
10 Sep	11:40	South Korea	–	Russia	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
10 Sep	14:40	United States	–	Brazil	–	–	–			–	P2 P3
10 Sep	18:15	China	–	Japan	–	–	–			–	P2 P3

Final Standing

Rank Team 01 ! 02 ! 03 ! 4 5 6

References

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