Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2017 – The Iranian Volleyball Federation will stage a snow volleyball tournament for the first time at the Dizin resort in the Alborz mountain range near Tehran.

The historic competition will be held by the IVF in association with Austrian agency Chaka2, the agency responsible for creating and organizing parts of the 2017 CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour. 

Drawing of Lots sets tone for much-anticipated #EuroVolleyU18W Finals
2017 CEV U18 Volleyball European Championship - Women Arnhem, Netherlands, February 10, 2017. All conditions are there for an exciting and memorable Final Round of the 2017 CEV U18 Volleyball European Championship – Women following the Drawing of Lots that took place on Friday late afternoon at Openlucht Museum / Kasteelboerderij in Arnhem, the Dutch city playing host to the tournament scheduled for April 1 to 9. There is a lot to look forward to since this competition will provide Europe’s ‘stars of tomorrow’ with a unique opportunity to shine and achieve the first major success in their still young careers. Following Friday’s Drawing of Lots, the composition of the two preliminary pools reads as follows:

Pool I: Netherlands, Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Italy
Pool II: Poland, Greece, Serbia, Belarus, Romania, Slovenia Next to hosts the Netherlands, 11 more teams secured their participation in the Final Round of the U18 Women’s European Championship following the qualification rounds played in mid-January.