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Jury President and CEV Vice President Jan Hronek as well as Christoph Stern, President of the Swiss Volleyball Federation, welcomed the CEV officials and national and local organizing committee members for the much-awaited 2013 CEV Volleyball European Championship – Women.
The Championship set to run through September 6 – 14 will be the twenty-eighth edition since the premiere in 1949 and will determine the two teams representing Europe at next year’s FIVB Women’s Volleyball World Championship in Italy.
“We are very happy with the progress of preparations”, said Jury President Jan Hronek. “The volleyball family is looking forward to a spectacular competition.”
“5 cities, 2 countries, 1 goal: women’s volleyball at its best”, emphasized Christoph Stern the slogan of the successful joint application be the German and Swiss Volleyball Federation in the autumn of 2010.
“Since then the trans-national Organizing committee has worked countless hours in order to provide something special for the players, coaches, and officials, of course, the volleyball fans from all over Europe. The European Championship should leave its marks on European volleyball far beyond the tournament.”
The Preliminary Phase of the 2013 CEV Volleyball European Championship – Women is split into four pools of four teams with the top three from each pool advancing to the next competition stage.
The first ranked teams of each pool are directly qualified for the quarterfinals, while the second and third ranked teams will fight for the last four quarterfinal tickets.
Pool A in Halle (Westphalia) comprises host and 2011 runner-up Germany, Turkey, Spain as well as the Netherlands.
Pool B in Zurich includes host Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France.
Pool C in Dresden is composed by Russia, Azerbaijan, Croatia as well as Belarus.
Pool D in Schwerin sees titleholder Serbia defending their reputations versus Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
Ticket pre-sales and television coverage flourish beyond expectations. For the first time in history, 127 countries with all five continents involved cover the Women’s EuroVolley.
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