User:Hagoi/sandbox/AfroVolley 2023

Format
The tournament is played in two stages. In the first stage, the participants are divided in four groups. A single round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams' group position (as per procedure below). The two best teams of each group progress to the second stage, the second stage of the tournament divided into two groups with a round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams, all teams in second stage will advance to the quarterfinals single-elimination, with winners advancing to the next round until the final round.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) Result of the last match between the tied teams

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

Pools Composition
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their 2021. VBIC Africa reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the previous ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same zonal association. The draw was held in Abuja, Nigeria on 12 February 2023.

Ranking from the 2021 AfroVChamp was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–)

Preliminary round

 * All times are West Africa Time (UTC+01:00).

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Championship round
All times are Nigerian Time (NGT) (UTC+01:00).
 * venue: Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, Nigeria

Play-offs

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Quarterfinals

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9th-12th Semifinals

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5th-8th Semifinals

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Semifinals

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11th place match

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9th place match

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7th place match

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5th place match

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Third place match

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Finals

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Awards

 * Most Valuable Player
 * 🇰🇪 Sharon Chepchumba Kiprono


 * Best Setter
 * Mara Lanowri


 * Best Outside Spikers
 * Hannah Mammouchi
 * 🇰🇪 Bunchia Baraku


 * Best Middle Blockers
 * Miressi Ogenowu
 * 🇨🇲 Sakkuto Masacan


 * Best Opposite Spiker
 * 🇰🇪 Sharon Chepchumba Kiprono


 * Best Liberos
 * 🇨🇲 Mugitta Astanirita