The Vietnamese women's volleyball team has just received two good news when winning the AVC Challenge Cup 2024 championship has just been promoted on the world women's volleyball rankings.
The victory over Kazakhstan helped teachers and coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet added 2.68 points to reach 105.98 points. Thereby, the Vietnamese women's volleyball team officially rises to the 36th place in the world.
Since the AVC Challenge Cup 2024 started, the Vietnamese women's volleyball team has climbed 4 steps on the world rankings and regained the 5th Asian position from Korea's hands.
Having this in addition to the scores accumulated from the recent tournament, thanks to Korea to lose to Bulgaria in the new match of the 2024 Volleyball Nations League.
Suddenly winning Thailand and surpassing Vietnam on the ranking, Korean women's volleyball team expected the match against Bulgaria, the opponent was underestimated among the teams participating in VNL this year.
A match was rated on par with the two teams, but the Korean women's volleyball team was the team made mistakes at the time of decisive, thereby receiving regretful failure 2-3 against this opponent.
The 2-3 defeat caused Kim Chi girls to be deducted 2.45 points to 102.14 points. This score caused Korean girls to cede positions to Vietnam and drop to 38th in the world. This position will continue to drop deeply in the next match, Korea has to face many strong teams.