2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship

The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for women's national teams under the age of 18, organized by the sport's world governing body, FIVB. The tournament was hosted by Argentina in the cities of Rosario and Santa Fe from 18 to 27 August 2017. 20 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament.

Italy won its second title in the competition, after also winning the previous edition, defeating Dominican Republic in the final. Russia defeated Turkey for the bronze medal. Elena Pietrini from Italy was elected the MVP.

Qualification
The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.

Pools composition
The drawing of lots was held in Rosario, Argentina on 10 May 2017. Argentina as a host country team were seeded in the top position of pool A, And the top seven teams from World ranking as per January 2017 were seed in serpentine system in first two rows. the twelve remaining teams were drawn in next three rows under the condition that there were not too much country in the same confederation were drawn in the same pool. Numbers in brackets denote the World ranking.

Referees

 * AVC (4)
 * 🇦🇺 Carla Hoorweg
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Ziling
 * 🇰🇷 Kang Joo-Hee
 * 🇸🇾 Maissaa Hachem


 * CAVB (2)
 * 🇨🇲 Marthe Clémence Eyike
 * 🇪🇬 Waleed El Kheshen


 * CEV (5)
 * 🇫🇷 Olivier Guillet
 * 🇲🇪 Sonja Simonovska
 * 🇵🇱 Sokol Katarzyna
 * 🇷🇺 Kozlova Nadezhda
 * 🇺🇦 Mykhaylo Medvid


 * CSV (5)
 * 🇦🇷 Concia Pedro Fabia
 * 🇧🇷 Silvio Silveira
 * 🇨🇴 Jorge Ernesto Erazo Maldonado
 * 🇵🇪 Rocio Aida Huarcaya Lopez
 * Denis Fabián Carbajal Mozzo


 * NORCECA (4)
 * 🇨🇺 Lourdes Perez Perez
 * 🇲🇽 Daniel Gonzalez
 * 🇹🇹 Brian Charles
 * 🇺🇸 Patricia Rolf

Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
 * 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 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

 * All times are Argentina Standard Time (UTC−03:00).

Final round

 * All times are Argentina Standard Time (UTC−03:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇮🇹 Elena Pietrini
 * Best setter
 * 🇮🇹 Rachele Morello
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇩🇴 Madeline Guillen
 * 🇹🇷 Ebrar Karakurt
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇷🇺 Victoriia Pushina
 * 🇮🇹 Sarah Fahr
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇮🇹 Terry Enweonwu
 * Best libero
 * 🇩🇴 Yaneirys Rodríguez