1991 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 1991 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 17th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Italy from 28 September to 6 October 1991, with the final round held in Rome.

Participating teams
*Note: As Italy qualified as hosts and for finishing the 1989 tournament as third, Romania gained a qualification place for finishing fourth in 1989.

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 two sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for first to fourth place, group stage thirds and fourths played the fifth to eighth place semifinals and the remaining four teams which finished group stages as fifth and sixth ended all tied in final ranking at ninth place. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (first played against second, third played against fourth).

Preliminary round

 * All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

 * venue location: Ravenna, Italy

Pool B

 * venue location: Bari, Italy

Final round

 * venue location: Rome, Italy
 * All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

5th–8th place

 * Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.

Final

 * Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.

Final ranking
Team Roster Evgenya Artamonova, Elena Batoukhtina, Galina Lebedeva, Natalya Morozova, Marina Nikoulina, Valentina Ogienko, Irina Parkhomchuk, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Smirnova, Elena Tchebukina, Yulia Timonova, Svetlana Vasiievskaya, and Elena Vorobieva. Head Coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Individual awards

 * MVP: Irina Ilchenko
 * Best spiker: Henriëtte Weersing
 * Best setter: Marina Pankova