FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification

The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is the process that a national women's volleyball team goes through to qualify for the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship finals.

For the recent qualifying tournament, see 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification.

Qualifying tournaments are held within the five FIVB continental zones (Africa, Asia and Oceania, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Europe), and are organized by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIVB decides beforehand the number of places in the finals allocated to each of the continental zones, based on the numbers or relative strength of the confederations' teams.

The most recent qualification process was the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification which commenced in 2014 and finished in 2017.

History

Summary

Allocations of FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

Allocation	1952 (8)	1956 (17)	1960 (10)	1962 (14)	1967 (4)	1970 (16)	1974 (23)	1978 (23)	1982 (23)	1986 (16)	1990 (16)	1994 (16)	1998 (16)	2002 (24)	2006 (24)	2010 (24)	2014 (24)	2018 (24)
Africa								1	2-1	1	1		1	2	3	2	2	2
Asia						2	3	1	5	1	1	3	3	5	4	4	4	4
Europe						7	2	7	7	1	1	1	6	8	7	8	8	8
North America						2	4	1	3+1	1	1	1	3	5	6	6	6	6
South America						2		1	3	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Host nation(s)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Defending champions									1			1		1	1	1	1	1
World Qualifiers										3	3	8
World Cup	0	0	0	0	0	2	13	11		7		7
Olympic champions									1
Wild cards	7	16	9	13	3
Total	8	17	10	14	4	16	23	23	23	16	16	16	16	24	24	24	24	24

Graphical

• Gray=Africa
• Gold=Asia
• Blue=Europe
• Red=North America
• Green=South America

Tournament	H	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
1952		1	6
1956		2		12												1	1
1960		1	4				1	3
1962		3			9									1
1967		1	1	1
1970		3			7							3			2
1974		4				10										6						2
1978		1	3			11											5					2
1982		1	5					8								5					3
1986		1	4				5					3			2
1990		1	3			5					3			3
1994		1	3			8								2		1
1998		1	3			6						3			2
2002		2		5					8								5					2
2006		3			4				7							6							2
2010		2		4				8								6							2
2014		2		4				8								6							2
2018		2		4				8								6							2

Participation

These are the number of teams that participated in all levels of qualification in the last world championship:

Year	Teams entered						Map
	Africa	Asia and Oceania	Europe	North America	South America	Total
2018	16	12+1	42	38+1	7	115+2

Key to map

  Team qualified for World Championship

  Team failed to qualify for World Championship

  Team withdrew for World Championship

  Team expelled from the tournament by FIVB prior to playing a match

Current format

Summary

Confederation	Slots
CAVB (Africa)	2
AVC (Asia and Oceania)	4
CEV (Europe)	8
NORCECA (North America)	6
CSV (South America)	2
Total	24 (22+H+C)

Africa

• First round: The bottom ranked tean of Africa were divided into seven groups of seven zonal association, later six groups of six zonal association. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification and CAVB Championship.
• Second round (CAVB Championship): A total of 13 teams (hosts, teams ranked 1–2 of Africa, nine first round winners and two wildcard teams), later 9 teams were divided into two groups. The top two teams of each group advanced to the play-offs. The winners of play-offs will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.

Asia and Oceania

• First round: The bottom ranked teams of Asia were divided into three groups of three zonal association. The group winners advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification.
• Second round: A total of 10 teams (teams ranked 1–7 and three first round winners) were divided into two groups of five teams. The top two teams of each group qualified for the FIVB World Championship.

Europe

• First round: The 8 bottom ranked teams of Asia were divided into two groups of small association. The group winners advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification. The first round will also act as the European Championship Small Countries Division qualification round.
• Second round: A total of 36 teams (teams ranked 1–34 and two first round winners) were divided into six groups of six teams. The winner team of each group qualified for the FIVB World Championship, whereas the runners-up in each pool will qualify for the third round.
• Third round: A total of 6 teams (runners-up of second round winners) played in round robin format. The top two teams qualified for the FIVB World Championship.

North America

• First round: The bottom ranked teams of North America were divided into three (CAZOVA), two (ECVA), a (AFECAVOL) group(s) of three zonal association. The best two teams of each group advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification.
• Second round (CAZOVA Championship and ECVA Championship): A total of 10 (CAZOVA), 6 (ECVA) teams (the best two teams in first round) were divided into two groups of 5 (CAZOVA), 3 (ECVA) teams. The winners teams of two tournaments qualified for the 2018 FIVB World Championship.
• Third round (NORCECA Continental Championship):

South America

• First round (CSV Championship): A total of 6 teams played in round robin format. The winners will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
• Second round: A total of 4 teams played in round robin format. The winners will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.

First appearance in qualification (1986-2018)

Note: Only teams that played at least one match are considered for the purposes of first appearance. Teams that withdrew prior to the qualification, or that qualified to the World Cup by walkover due to other teams' withdrawals, are not considered.

Edition	Africa	Asia and Oceania	Europe	North, Central America and Caribbean	South America	Total
1998	Algeria  Egypt  Kenya  Nigeria  Tunisia	Australia  China  Indonesia  Japan  Kazakhstan  Philippines  South Korea  Chinese Taipei  Thailand  Uzbekistan	Austria  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Belgium  Bulgaria  Croatia  Czech Republic  France  Germany  Greece  Hungary  Italy  Latvia  Netherlands  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  Spain  Slovakia  Turkey  Ukraine  FR Yugoslavia[upper-alpha 1]	Barbados  Canada  Cuba  Dominican Republic  Mexico  Puerto Rico  United States	Argentina  Brazil  Peru  Venezuela	49+H
2002	Cameroon  Morocco  Namibia	Sri Lanka	Denmark  Finland  Israel  Norway  Slovenia   Switzerland	Aruba  Costa Rica  Jamaica  Netherlands Antilles	N/A	14
2006	Botswana  Congo  DR Congo  Eritrea  Mauritius  South Africa  Uganda	Jordan  Tonga	Albania  Bosnia and Herzegovina  England  Scotland	Anguilla  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Dominica  Guatemala  Honduras  Netherlands Antilles  Nicaragua  Panama  Saint Kitts and Nevis	Ecuador  Uruguay	25
2010	Mozambique  Senegal  Eswatini  Zimbabwe	Bangladesh  Fiji  New Zealand  Samoa	Estonia  Georgia  Great Britain  Moldova  Montenegro  Serbia	Antigua and Barbuda  Bahamas  Belize  Bermuda  El Salvador  Grenada  Haiti  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago	Bolivia  Chile  Colombia	28
2014	Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cape Verde  Gabon  Gambia  Ghana  Guinea  Ivory Coast  Lesotho  Malawi  Niger  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Tanzania  Togo  Zambia	Hong Kong  India  Myanmar  Vietnam	Cyprus  Iceland  Liechtenstein  Lithuania  Luxembourg  North Macedonia  Malta  Northern Ireland  San Marino  Sweden	Bonaire  Curaçao  Guadeloupe  Martinique  Saint Martin  Sint Eustatius  Sint Maarten	N/A	37
2018	Rwanda	Iran  Maldives    Nepal  North Korea	Faroe Islands  Ireland  Kosovo	Turks and Caicos Islands  Saba	N/A	10

Notes

1. The  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was later renamed as  Serbia and Montenegro (first appearance: 2006), which in turn was succeeded by  Serbia (first appearance: 2010).

See also

• National team appearances in the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

References