The Women's European Volleyball Championship 2023 starts on Tuesday. 24 nations will compete to become the best women's volleyball team in Europe.
The tournament will be hosted by four countries: Belgium, Italy, Germany and Estonia. The Top Sport Hall in Ghent will host the Group A matches, while the Palais 12 in Brussels will host part of the round of sixteen and the quarter-finals, as well as the semi-finals and the grand final.
For the Yellow Tigers, the Belgian women's volleyball team, the tournament starts on Thursday with a match against Hungary. They will then face Slovenia, Ukraine, Poland and Serbia. The top four teams in each group will advance to the next round.
Belgian coaches
Two other Belgians will be taking part in the tournament. Vital Heynen, who won bronze as the German men's coach at the 2014 World Cup, took over as Germany coach last year. Emile Rousseaux has been coaching France since 2018 and recently won the Challengers Cup.
Italy are the defending champions after winning the final in 2021. Serbia lost the final that year, while Turkey finished third. Belgium will be hoping to do better this year than their 14th place finish in 2021.
source: BELGA
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