2015 Women's African Volleyball Championship


The 2015 Women's African Nations Championship was the 17th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship organised by Africa's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball. It was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 12 to 20 June 2015. The top two team qualified for the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup.
Kenya won the championship defeating Algeria in the final and Cameroon won the bronze medal over Senegal.

Competing nations

The following national teams have confirmed participation:

Squads

Venue

Format

The tournament is played in two stages. In the first stage, the participants are divided in two groups. A single round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams' group position.
In the second stage, the two best teams of each group progress to the semifinals, while the third and fourth placed teams from each group progress to the classification matches. The second stage of the tournament consists of a single-elimination.

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

Pool composition

The drawing of lots was held in Nairobi, Kenya on 12 June.
Pool APool B

Preliminary round

Pool B

Final round

Classification 5th–8th places

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Championship

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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8

Source: CAVB.

Awards

Source: CAVB.