2021 Women's African Nations Volleyball Championship

2021 Women's African Nations Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Rwanda
City	Kigali
Dates	12–20 September
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Cameroon (3rd title)
Runners-up	Kenya
Third place	Morocco
Fourth place	Nigeria
Tournament awards
MVP	Christelle Tchoudjang Nana
Best Setter	Alexandra Erhart
Best OH	Sharon Chepchumba
Best MB	Gladys Ekaru
Best Libero	Yousra Souidi
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Last updated August 25, 2023

The 2021 Women's African Nations Volleyball Championship is the 20th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) with Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB). The tournament is held in Kigali, Rwanda from 12 to 20 September 2021. The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship as the CAVB representatives.^[1]

Qualification

9 teams have registered to participate in the 2021 African Championship.

Means of qualification	Dates	Hosts	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Rwanda
2019 African Championship	9–14 July 2019	Cairo	4	Cameroon Kenya Senegal Morocco
Zone 1 representatives	—	—	1	Tunisia
Zone 3 representatives	—	—	1	Nigeria
Zone 4 representatives	—	—	2	Burundi DR Congo
Total			9

Pools composition

Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–). The host country and the top 8 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system. The 4 remaining teams were drawn in Kigali, Rwanda on 11 September 2021.

Pool A	Pool B
Rwanda (Hosts)	Cameroon (1)
Senegal (3)	Kenya (2)
Morocco (6)	Burundi (–)
Nigeria (–)	Tunisia (–)
	DR Congo (–)

Squads

Venue

Kigali, Rwanda		Kigali Kigali (Rwanda)
Kigali Arena / KGL	Petit Stade / PTS
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: Unknown

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
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.

Group stage

All times are Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Morocco	2	1	1	3	4	3	1.333	168	160	1.050	Semifinals
2	Nigeria	2	1	1	3	3	3	1.000	143	131	1.092	Semifinals
3	Senegal ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	109	150	0.727	Withdrew
4	Rwanda ^{[lower-alpha 2]}(H)	2	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	182	161	1.130	9th place

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(H) Host nation
Notes:

↑ Rwanda was forfeited by FIVB because Rwanda illegally registered four foreigners without due process
↑ Senegal withdrew from the competition

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total
12 Sep	14:00	KGL	Nigeria	3–0	Senegal	25–16	25–18	25–22		75–56
12 Sep	18:00	KGL	Rwanda	3–1	Morocco	25–19	25–18	32–34	25–22	107–93
13 Sep	18:00	KGL	Nigeria	0–3	Rwanda	22–25	23–25	23–25		68–75
15 Sep	14:00	KGL	Senegal	0–3	Morocco	23–25	17–25	13–25		53–75
16 Sep^{[lower-alpha 1]}	18:00	KGL	Rwanda	–	Senegal	–	–	–		0–0
17 Sep^{[lower-alpha 1]}	16:00	KGL	Morocco	–	Nigeria	–	–	–		0–0

Notes

1 2 This match was canceled.

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cameroon	3	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	225	153	1.471	Semifinals
2	Kenya	4	3	1	9	9	3	3.000	285	206	1.383	Semifinals
3	Tunisia	3	1	2	3	3	6	0.500	185	200	0.925	5th place
4	DR Congo	3	1	2	3	3	6	0.500	168	196	0.857	5th place
5	Burundi	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	117	225	0.520	7th place

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total
12 Sep	12:00	KGL	Burundi	0–3	DR Congo	18–25	15–25	13–25	46–75
12 Sep	16:00	KGL	Cameroon	3–0	Kenya	25–20	25–21	25–19	75–60
13 Sep	10:00	KGL	Tunisia	0–3	Cameroon	15–25	18–25	17–25	50–75
13 Sep	12:00	PTS	DR Congo	0–3	Kenya	12–25	12–25	19–25	43–75
15 Sep	12:00	KGL	Cameroon	3–0	Burundi	25–15	25–14	25–14	75–43
15 Sep	16:00	KGL	Kenya	3–0	Tunisia	25–20	25–19	25–21	75–60
16 Sep	14:00	KGL	Burundi	0–3	Kenya	8–25	9–25	11–25	28–75
16 Sep	16:00	KGL	DR Congo	0–3	Tunisia	17–25	16–25	17–25	50–75
17 Sep^{[lower-alpha 1]}	14:00	KGL	Cameroon	–	DR Congo	–	–	–	0–0
17 Sep^{[lower-alpha 1]}	18:00	KGL	Tunisia	–	Burundi	–	–	–	0–0

Notes

1 2 This match was canceled.

Final round

All times are Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00).

5th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	14.00	KGL	Tunisia	3–0	DR Congo	25–17	25–11	25–20			75–48

Final Four

Semifinals		Final

19 September – Kigali

Morocco	0
		19 September – Kigali
Kenya	3
		Kenya	1
19 September – Kigali
		Cameroon	3
Cameroon	3

Nigeria	0
		3rd place match

		19 September – Kigali

		Morocco	3

		Nigeria	0

Semifinals

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	10.00	KGL	Morocco	0–3	Kenya	12–25	21–25	11–25			44–75
19 Sep	12.00	KGL	Cameroon	3–0	Nigeria	25–13	35–33	25–13			85–59

3rd place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	16.00	KGL	Morocco	3–0	Nigeria	25–19	25–17	25–18			75–54

Final

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	18.00	KGL	Kenya	1–3	Cameroon	21–25	23–25	25–15	23–25		92–90

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Cameroon
	Kenya
	Morocco
4	Nigeria
5	Tunisia
6	DR Congo
7	Senegal
8	Burundi
9	Rwanda

	Qualified for the 2022 World Championship

2021 Women's African Nations champions
Cameroon 3rd title

Awards

Most valuable player^[2]
Christelle Tchoudjang Nana
Best spiker
Sharon Chepchumba
Best blocker
Gladys Ekaru
Best server
Laetitia Moma Bassoko
Best setter
Alexandra Erhart
Best receiver
Mercy Moim
Best libero
Yousra Souidi

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References

↑ "2021 Women's CAVB Championship: Nigeria, Cameroon know foe in pool A and B". Uche Dozie. 12 September 2021. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
↑ WoV (19 September 2021). "CAVB W: Cameroon is the African champion for the third time in a row". WorldofVolley. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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[table_note_SEN0.43906743984626-2] Rwanda was forfeited by FIVB because Rwanda illegally registered four foreigners without due process

[table_note_RWA0.43906743984626-3] Senegal withdrew from the competition

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[1] "2021 Women's CAVB Championship: Nigeria, Cameroon know foe in pool A and B". Uche Dozie. 12 September 2021. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.

[6] WoV (19 September 2021). "CAVB W: Cameroon is the African champion for the third time in a row". WorldofVolley. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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