Serbia Claims Top Spot Of CEV Rankings Following EuroVolley Win

Following the conclusion of the 2017 CEV European Women’s Championships, Serbia has claimed the top spot in the most recent CEV Rankings after their win over the Netherlands in the finals.

The Serbian team has been a force to be reckoned with this summer, taking third at the FIVB World Grand Prix and now first at the European Championships. The move to #1 in the CEV Rankings dethrones Russia who has sat atop of the rankings for quite some time but struggled at the European Championships late. Russia’s coach was fired just hours before the start of the European championships, to which they finished pool play with an unbeaten record. This propelled them straight to the quarterfinals where they met Turkey, who remains at #5 in the rankings, for a second time, losing in straight sets.

The silver medalist this year, the Netherlands, moved up their ranking to #4, improving four positions following their strong performance at the championships.

Though Georgia didn’t win any matches at the European Championships, they did move up seven spots to #28 after they took a set away from Croatia. That one set loss was enough to throw the Croatian team down two spots to #10 in the rankings. In other big moves, Portugal and Montenegro each moved up five positions to #21 and #22, respectively.

Below are the full CEV Rankings.

Pos.	Team	Total	Movement	2017 CEV ECH W	2015 CEV ECH W	2017 CEV EL W	2017 FIVB WGP	2014 FIVB WCH W
1	SRB	290	+1	100	96		48	46
2	RUS	282	-1	90	100		44	48
3	ITA	280		92	88		50	50
4	NED	278	+3	98	98		46	36
5	TUR	276		96	94		42	44
6	GER	258	-2	86	92		36	44
7	BEL	244	-1	74	90		40	40
8	POL	236	+1	82	86		38	30
9	BUL	232	+2	84	76		32	40
10	CRO	228	-2	80	82		30	36
11	CZE	222	-1	78	80		34	30
12	BLR	214		88	84	16		26
13	HUN	206	+2	72	78		28	28
14	UKR	202		76	66	32		28
15	AZE	200	+1	94	74			32
16	FRA	178	-3	62	64	0*	26	26
17	SVK	176	-1	64	68	16		28
18	ROU	170	+1	68	72			30
19	ESP	164	-1	66	52	18		28
20	FIN	152		52	60	28		12
21	POR	136	+5	56	56	12		12
22	MNE	134	+5	58	48	12		16
23	SUI	132	-2	48	58			26
23	ISR	132	-1	42	62			28
25	SLO	130	-2	60	70
26	AUT	128	-2	54	54	8		12
27	GRE	116	-3	46	50			20
28	GEO	110	+7	70	32	8
28	EST	110	+4	50	34			26
30	LAT	104	-2	44	42			18
31	BIH	98	+2	40	46			12
32	SWE	90	-3	38	44	8
33	DEN	86	-4	36	40			10
34	LTU	82		32	38			12
35	NOR	70	+2	34	36
36	LUX	53	+2	30	13			10
37	CYP	41	-6		15			26
38	SCO	26	-2		14			12
39	ALB	24	+4			12		12
40	LIE	21	-1		11			10
41	ISL	19			9			10
42	NIR	18	+3		8			10
42	MLT	18	-2		10			8
44	SMR	14	-3					14
45	FAR	12	-1		12
46	MKD	10	+1					10
46	MDA	10	+1					10
48	IRL	7	-2		7