The World League Finals will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 20 to 23.
After the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League is over, the 16 participating teams will be seated. The tournament is still played in a single-elimination format. According to the rules of the competition, in addition to Thailand, the host country that directly qualified for the finals, the seven teams with the best results in the sub-tournament Brazil, Italy, Poland, China, Japan, Turkey and the United States also advanced to the finals.
On June 21, the finals of the World Women's Volleyball League in Thailand were played in the second half of the two quarterfinals. In the end, the top four teams in the World Women's Volleyball League Finals were all released: Brazil, Japan, Italy, and Poland.
On June 22, the finals of the World Women's Volleyball League in Thailand were held. In the upper half, the Japanese women's volleyball team challenged the Brazilian women's volleyball team, which won all 13 games in this year's World League, and in the second half, the Italian women's volleyball team and the Polish women's volleyball team, the top two European women's volleyball teams, competed.
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June 22 Schedule and Results: (Beijing Time)
18:00 Semi-finals: Second half Italy vs Poland
In the first semifinals, the Italian women's volleyball team swept the Polish women's volleyball team in three straight games to advance to the finals, with the scores of 25-18, 25-17 and 25-12. Italy will play the winner between the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Brazilian women's volleyball team for the championship of this finals. Italy's world ranking points increased by 9.04 points after the victory, and they remained in second place with 393.95 points. Poland has reached the top four in two consecutive World League finals, and its world ranking has decreased by 9.04 points to 358.47 points.
In this game, Italy's receiver Egnu scored 22 points to win the scoring title, the main attack Sheila scored 11 points, and the setter Oro contributed 7 points. Poland's Stishak scored a team-high 11 points, while Lukasik scored nine.
21:30 Semi-finals: Top Half Brazil vs Japan
The Brazilian women's volleyball team, which has won 13 consecutive victories since the start of the tournament, will meet the challenge of the Japanese women's volleyball team. As of now, Brazil is ranked No. 1 in the world with 401.06 points, and Japan is No. 7 with 334.37 points. The sixth-ranked Chinese women's volleyball team is 7.52 points ahead of Japan. The result of this match between Japan and Brazil may affect the world rankings of the two teams.
The changes in the World Ranking of the Battle of Barria are as follows:
Brazil beat Japan 3-0 +6.34 points
Brazil beat Japan 3-1 +3.84 points
Brazil beat Japan 3-2 +1.34 points
Brazil lost 0-3 to Japan -13.66 points
Brazil lost 1-3 to Japan -11.16 points
Brazil lost 2-3 to Japan -8.66 points
In the second semi-final, the Japanese women's volleyball team fought hard 3-2 in five games to break the undefeated golden body of the Brazilian women's volleyball team in this World League, and met the Italian women's volleyball team in the final, with the scores of 26-24, 20-25, 25-21, 22-25 and 15-12 in five games.
After the Japanese team won, the world ranking score increased by 8.66 points to 343.93 points, surpassing the Chinese women's volleyball team by a narrow advantage of 1.14 points to rise to 6th, and the Chinese team fell to 7th. After the Brazilian team lost, the world ranking decreased by 8.66 points, falling to second place with 392.4 points, and was overtaken by the Italian women's volleyball team to become the world No. 1 by a narrow margin of 1.1 points.
In this game, Japan's substitute Yukiko Wada scored 21 points, the two main players Sarina Koga and Masuke Ishikawa scored 18 and 16 points respectively, and the substitute assistant attack Miyabe Lanpear scored 11 points. Brazil's main attacker Gabi scored 21 points, substitute main attack Bergman contributed 17 points, Rosamaria and secondary attack Taisa both scored 16 points, and secondary attack Carroll scored 14 points.
Thailand World Women's Volleyball League Finals against teams:
Upper District:
Brazil women's volleyball team VS Thailand women's volleyball team
Chinese women's volleyball team VS Japanese women's volleyball team
Lower Half District:
Italian women's volleyball team VS American women's volleyball team
Poland women's volleyball team VS Turkey women's volleyball team
Finals: Schedule of the World Women's Volleyball League Finals in Bangkok, Thailand
The schedule of the quarter-finals is as follows:
June 20, 18:00: Top Half China VS Japan
June 20, 21:30: Top half Thailand vs Brazil
June 21 18:00: Second half Italy vs USA
June 21 21:30: Bottom half Poland vs Turkey
Saturday, June 22
18:00 Semifinals (1)
21:30 Semifinals (2)
Sunday, June 23
18:00 Bronze medal match
21:30 Gold medal match