2007 Women’s European Volleyball Championship

2007 edition of the Women’s European Volleyball Championship

The 2007 Women’s European Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the event, organised by Europe’s governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Charleroi and Hasselt of Belgium and Luxembourg City of Luxembourg from 20 to 30 September 2007.

Participating teams[edit]

The tournament was played in three different stages. In the first stage, the sixteen participants were divided in four groups (A, B, C and D) of four teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams’ group position; the three best teams of each group (total of 12 teams) progressed to the second stage.

The second stage of the tournament consisted of two groups of six teams each. As the first stage match results amongst the teams which advanced to this stage also counted, the two groups had been predetermined, one group formed by groups A and C teams while the other was formed by groups B and D teams. In each of the two groups, the teams played once against every opponent they had not faced in the tournament (total of three matches each), adding that to the results obtained against the other two teams who also advanced from the first stage same group. The two group winners and two runners-up from this second stage advanced to the third stage.

The third and final stage of the tournament was composed of the semifinals, third place match and final. Each of the semifinals was played between the winner and the runner-up of the same second stage group.

Pools composition[edit]

The tournament was played at three venues in three cities, of which two were in Belgium and one in Luxembourg. Group stages were held in Belgium and Luxembourg hosted the Final round.

Preliminary round[edit]

(A)	Advance to Playoff round

Pool A[edit]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Italy (A)	6	3	0	9	1	9.000	249	193	1.290
2	Germany (A)	5	2	1	6	4	1.500	236	202	1.168
3	Azerbaijan (A)	4	1	2	3	6	0.500	179	201	0.891
4	Belarus	3	0	3	2	9	0.222	202	270	0.748

Pool B[edit]

• venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Poland (A)	6	3	0	9	3	3.000	286	259	1.104
2	Czech Republic (A)	5	2	1	7	5	1.400	279	258	1.081
3	Bulgaria (A)	4	1	2	7	8	0.875	321	342	0.939
4	Spain	3	0	3	2	9	0.222	237	264	0.898

Pool C[edit]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Russia (A)	6	3	0	9	0	MAX	228	185	1.232
2	France (A)	5	2	1	6	4	1.500	231	223	1.036
3	Turkey (A)	4	1	2	3	8	0.375	236	251	0.940
4	Croatia	3	0	3	3	9	0.333	248	284	0.873

Pool D[edit]

• venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Netherlands (A)	5	2	1	8	4	2.000	270	235	1.149
2	Serbia (A)	5	2	1	8	7	1.143	328	298	1.101
3	Belgium (A)	4	1	2	6	6	1.000	251	259	0.969
4	Slovakia	4	1	2	3	8	0.375	196	253	0.775

Playoff round[edit]

(F)	Advance to Final round

Pool E[edit]

The following Preliminary round matches are also valid for the pool standings:

Pool F[edit]

• venue: Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt, Belgium

The following Preliminary round matches are also valid for the pool standings:

Final round[edit]

Semifinals[edit]

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Sep	16:30	Italy	3–0	Russia	25–21	25–22	25–13			75–56	Report
29 Sep	19:30	Serbia	3–0	Poland	27–25	25–21	25–21			77–67	Report

3rd place match[edit]

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Sep	15:30	Russia	3–1	Poland	21–25	25–22	25–14	25–20		96–81	Report

Final[edit]

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Sep	18:30	Italy	3–0	Serbia	26–24	25–18	25–21			76–63	Report

Ranking and statistics[edit]

References[edit]

• Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)^[1]

External links[edit]