The 1991 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 17th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Italy from 28 September to 6 October 1991, with the final round held in Rome.
Participating teams
*Note: As Italy qualified as hosts and for finishing the 1989 tournament as third, Romania gained a qualification place for finishing fourth in 1989.
Format
The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the twelve participants were divided in two groups of six teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of two sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for first to fourth place, group stage thirds and fourths played the fifth to eighth place semifinals and the remaining four teams which finished group stages as fifth and sixth ended all tied in final ranking at ninth place. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (first played against second, third played against fourth).
Pools composition
Venues
Preliminary round
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool A
venue location: Ravenna, Italy
Pool B
venue location: Bari, Italy
Final round
venue location: Rome, Italy
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
5th–8th place
Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final
Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final ranking
Individual awards
MVP: Best spiker: Best setter:
References
Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)