2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship

The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship will be the twentieth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Mexico from 12 to 21 July 2019. Mexico played hosts for this event for the fourth time.

The finals involved 16 teams, of which 15 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 16 teams, 15 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while Rwanda made its first appearances at an FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship.

China is the defending champions, having won their third title in Mexico.

Qualification
A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Mexico, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams qualified via six separate continental tournaments while the remaining 5 teams qualified via the FIVB Junior World Ranking.

First round
The draw was held in León, Mexico on 18 June 2019. Mexico as a host country team were seeded in the top position of pool A. The top seven teams from World ranking as per January 2019 were seed in serpentine system in first two rows. The eight remaining teams were drawn in next two rows. Numbers in brackets denote the World ranking.


 * Draw

Referees
There were sixteen referees from 5 continental confederations in this tournament.


 * AVC (1)
 * 🇰🇿 Irina Kabulbekova


 * CAVB (2)
 * 🇨🇲 Marthe Clémence Eyike
 * 🇹🇳 Abderrazek Hariz


 * CEV (4)
 * 🇦🇹 Sinisa Isajlovic
 * 🇩🇪 Sabine Witte
 * 🇮🇱 Roy Goren
 * Sanja Miklosic


 * CSV (4)
 * 🇧🇷 Angela Grass
 * 🇨🇴 Misael Galindo Reyez
 * 🇵🇪 Rocio Aida Huarcaya Lopez
 * 🇻🇪 José Blanco Gonto


 * NORCECA (5)
 * 🇨🇦 Andrew Robb
 * 🇨🇺 Lourdes Perez Perez
 * 🇩🇴 Nestor Bienvenido Mateo Perez
 * 🇲🇽 Maria Del Carmen Idalia Duran Guzman
 * 🇲🇽 Pablo Mendoza Sanchez

Pool standing procedure

 * 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 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser

Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Final round

 * All times are Central Daylight Time Zone (UTC−05:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇯🇵 Mayu Ishikawa
 * Best setter
 * 🇯🇵 Tsukasa Nakagawa
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇯🇵 Haruna Soga
 * 🇯🇵 Mayu Ishikawa
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇷🇺 Yulia Brovkina
 * 🇹🇷 Merve Atlier
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇮🇹 Terry Enweonwu
 * Best libero
 * 🇨🇳 Ni Feifan