1989 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 1989 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the sixteenth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in West Germany from 2 to 10 September 1989, with the final round held in Stuttgart.

Format
The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the twelve participants were divided in two groups of six teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of three sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for 1st to 4th place, group stage thirds and fourths played the 5th to 8th place semifinals and group stage fifths and sixths played the 9th to 12th semifinals. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (1st played against 2nd, 3rd played against 4th and 5th played against 6th).

Pool A

 * venue location: Hamburg, West Germany

Pool B

 * venue location: Karlsruhe, West Germany

9th–12th place

 * Pools A and B fifth and sixth positions play each other.
 * venue location: Sindelfingen, West Germany

5th–8th place

 * Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.
 * venue location: Stuttgart, West Germany

Final

 * Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.
 * venue location: Stuttgart, West Germany

Final ranking
Team Roster Irina Kirillova, Valentina Ogienko, Elena Chebukina, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Ilchenko, Svetlana Korytova, Irina Shcherbakova, Elena Batoukhtina, Marina Vyalitsyna, Inna Dashuk, Galina Lebedeva, and Olga Tolmacheva. Head Coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Individual awards

 * MVP: Valentina Ogienko
 * Best spiker: Irina Ilchenko
 * Best server: 🇷🇴 Gabriela Dumitrescu (ROU)
 * Best blocker: Grit Naumann
 * Best setter: 🇮🇹 Manuela Benelli (ITA)
 * Best receiver: Susanne Lahme
 * Best digger: 🇮🇹 Liliana Bernardi (ITA)