LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 16, 2021 -
Following the approval of the FIVB Board of
Administration and the agreement of the event
hosts, Croatia for the women’s edition and
Portugal for the men’s edition, the FIVB today
announced the cancellation of the Volleyball
Challenger Cup (VCC) 2021 due to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on
international travel.
The VCC serves as a qualifying tournament for
the Volleyball Nations League (VNL), whereby the
winners of the VCC per gender earn their place
in the following year’s edition of the VNL. As
such, the promotion and relegation system of the
VCC winner and VNL bottom ranked team eligible
for relegation respectively will be frozen for
the 2021 season.
As a result, all sixteen teams per gender
participating in the VNL 2021 will also
participate in the next edition of the VNL in
2022.
The VNL 2021 will be hosted this year in a
secure bubble format in Rimini, Italy. |