1999 Women's European Volleyball Championship

, Italy from 20 to 25 September 1999.

Participating teams

Team	Method of qualification
Bulgaria	Qualification Division A group 1 second
Croatia	Qualification Division A group 2 third
Germany	Qualification Division A group 1 fourth
Italy	Qualification Division A group 1 third
Netherlands	Qualification Division A group 2 fourth
Poland	Qualification Division A group 2 winners
Romania	Qualification Division A group 2 second
Russia	Qualification Division A group 1 winners

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the eight participants were divided in two groups of four teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of two sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for first to fourth place and group stage thirds and fourths played the fifth to eighth place semifinals. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (first played against second, third played against fourth).

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B
Italy	Bulgaria
Netherlands	Croatia
Romania	Germany
Russia	Poland

Venues

Pool A and Final round	Pool B	Rome Perugia class=notpageimage| Tournament host cities
Rome	Perugia
PalaEUR	PalaEvangelisti
Capacity: 11,200	Capacity: 5,300

Preliminary round

• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

• venue location: PalaEUR, Rome, Italy

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	6	9	1	9.000	250	200	1.250	Semifinals
2	Italy	3	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	283	259	1.093
3	Netherlands	3	1	2	4	4	8	0.500	238	274	0.869	5th–8th place
4	Romania	3	0	3	3	3	9	0.333	238	276	0.862

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Sep	15:30	Italy	3–1	Romania	21–25	25–20	25–17	25–20		96–82	Report
20 Sep	18:00	Netherlands	0–3	Russia	24–26	11–25	20–25			55–76	Report
21 Sep	15:30	Italy	3–1	Netherlands	25–17	22–25	25–19	25–17		97–78	Report
21 Sep	18:00	Romania	0–3	Russia	17–25	18–25	20–25			55–75	Report
22 Sep	15:30	Russia	3–1	Italy	22–25	25–21	27–25	25–19		99–90	Report
22 Sep	18:00	Netherlands	3–2	Romania	17–25	23–25	25–21	25–21	15–9	105–101	Report

Pool B

• venue location: PalaEvangelisti, Perugia, Italy

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	2	1	5	6	3	2.000	207	203	1.020	Semifinals
2	Germany	3	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	266	247	1.077
3	Bulgaria	3	1	2	4	5	7	0.714	267	273	0.978	5th–8th place
4	Poland	3	1	2	4	5	8	0.625	276	293	0.942

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Sep	18:00	Croatia	3–0	Bulgaria	25–21	25–19	25–17			75–57	Report
20 Sep	20:30	Poland	2–3	Germany	25–21	14–25	19–25	25–16	13–15	96–102	Report
21 Sep	18:00	Bulgaria	3–1	Germany	25–22	25–21	21–25	25–21		96–89	Report
21 Sep	20:30	Croatia	3–0	Poland	26–24	26–24	25–23			77–71	Report
22 Sep	18:00	Poland	3–2	Bulgaria	25–23	15–25	32–30	22–25	15–11	109–114	Report
22 Sep	20:30	Germany	3–0	Croatia	25–19	25–23	25–13			75–55	Report

Final round

• venue location: PalaEUR, Rome, Italy
• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

5th–8th place

• Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.

	Semifinals				5th place
	24 Sep
	Romania	3
					25 Sep
	Bulgaria	1
					Romania	0
	24 Sep
					Netherlands	3
	Netherlands	3
	Poland	1
					7th place
					25 Sep
					Bulgaria	3
					Poland	1

5th–8th semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Sep	11:00	Romania	3–1	Bulgaria	25–22	25–21	21–25	25–22		96–90	Report
24 Sep	14:00	Netherlands	3–1	Poland	29–27	22–25	25–23	25–23		101–98	Report

7th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Sep	10:00	Bulgaria	3–1	Poland	25–19	25–22	20–25	25–20		95–86	Report

5th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Sep	12:00	Romania	0–3	Netherlands	19–25	22–25	16–25			57–75	Report

Final

• Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.

	Semifinals				Final
	24 Sep
	Russia	3
					25 Sep
	Germany	0
					Russia	3
	24 Sep
					Croatia	0
	Italy	2
	Croatia	3
					3rd place
					25 Sep
					Germany	0
					Italy	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Sep	16:30	Italy	2–3	Croatia	22–25	25–16	25–22	23–25	13–15	108–103	Report
24 Sep	19:00	Russia	3–0	Germany	25–14	25–9	25–16			75–39	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Sep	14:30	Italy	3–0	Germany	25–20	25–20	25–19			75–59	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Sep	17:00	Russia	3–0	Croatia	25–18	25–19	25–12			75–49	Report

Final ranking

Place Team  Russia  Croatia  Italy 4.  Germany 5.  Netherlands 6.  Romania 7.  Bulgaria 8.  Poland

1999 Women's European champions  Russia 16th title Team Roster Elizaveta Tichtchenko and Elena Vassilevskaya. Head coach: Nikolay Karpol .

Individual awards

• Most valuable player:  
  Evgenya Artamonova
   (RUS)
• Best scorer:  
  Barbara Jelić
   (CRO)
• Best blocker:  
  Elizaveta Tichtchenko
   (RUS)
• Best spiker:  
  Elizaveta Tichtchenko
   (RUS)
• Best server:  Ewa Kowalkowska (POL)

References

• Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)^[1]