2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification

The 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship featured 24 teams. One place was allocated to the hosts, Poland, but no automatic place is given to the defending champions, Brazil. The remaining 23 places were determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations competed.[1][2]

Qualified teams

Team Qualified as Qualification date Appearance
in finals
 PolandHosts8 September 200816th
 Argentina2013 CSV Runners-up9 August 201311th
 Brazil2013 CSV Champions9 August 201316th
 AustraliaAVC Pool A Winners8 September 20136th
 South KoreaAVC Pool D Winners8 September 20139th
 IranAVC Pool B Winners13 September 20135th
 VenezuelaCSV Qualifier Winners15 September 201311th
 ChinaAVC Pool C Winners22 September 201313th
 Russia2013 CEV Champions28 September 201318th1
 Italy2013 CEV Runners-up28 September 201316th
 GermanyCEV Pool K Winners5 January 20146th2
 SerbiaCEV Pool J Winners5 January 20149th3
 BulgariaCEV Pool I Winners5 January 201417th
 BelgiumCEV Pool L Winners5 January 20148th
 FranceCEV Third Round Best Runners-up5 January 201415th
 FinlandCEV Pool M Winners5 January 20147th
 EgyptCAVB Pool U Winners10 February 20148th
 CameroonCAVB Pool T Winners17 February 20143rd
 TunisiaCAVB Pool V Winners7 March 20149th
 United StatesNORCECA Pool O Winners18 May 201415th
 CanadaNORCECA Pool Q Winners19 May 201410th
 CubaNORCECA Pool P Winners24 May 201414th
 MexicoNORCECA Pool R Winners25 May 20145th
 Puerto RicoNORCECA Playoff Winners20 July 20144th
1.^ Competed as Soviet Union from 1949 to 1990; 6th appearance as Russia.
2.^ Competed as West Germany from 1956 to 1966; 4th appearance as Germany.
3.^ Competed as SFR Yugoslavia from 1956 to 1970 and Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia) from 1998 to 2006; 2nd appearance as Serbia.

Confederation qualification processes

The distribution by confederation for the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was:[1]

  • Asia and Oceania (AVC): 4 places
  • Africa (CAVB): 3 places
  • Europe (CEV): 8 places (+ Poland qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 9 places)
  • South America (CSV): 3 places
  • North America (NORCECA): 5 places

AVC

CAVB

CEV

CSV

NORCECA

References

  1. 1 2 "2014 World Championships – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Playoff Round Tournaments" (PDF). FIVB. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  2. "Record registration for FIVB Volleyball World Championships". FIVB. 1 February 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.