2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification

The 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship featured 24 teams. Three places were allocated to the hosts, the Netherlands and Poland the titleholder, Serbia. Eleven places were allocated to top twelves not yet qualified teams of FIVB World Rankings. The remaining 10 places were determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations competed.[1]

Qualification summary

Qualified teams

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances
Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Total	First	Last
Netherlands	CEV	Host Country	12 January 2019	14	1956	2018
Poland	CEV	Host Country	12 January 2019	11	1952	2010

Timelines

Confederation	Tournament		Date	Venue	Teams
FIVB (Intercontinental)	2021 Intercontinental Qualification	Pool A	TBD	TBD	4
		Pool B	TBD	TBD	4
		Pool C	TBD	TBD	4
		Pool D	TBD	TBD	4
		Pool E	TBD	TBD	4
		Pool F	TBD	TBD	4
AVC (Asia and Oceania)	2019 Asian Championship		17–25 August	Seoul	13
	2021 Asian Championship qualification		TBD	TBD	TBD
	2021 Asian Championship		TBD	TBD	TBD
CEV (Europe)	2019 EuroVolley		23 August–8 September	Budapest Łódź Bratislava Ankara	21+3
	2020–21 EuroVolley qualification	Pool A	TBD	Home–away	4
		Pool B	TBD	Home–away	4
		Pool C	TBD	Home–away	4
		Pool D	TBD	Home–away	4
		Pool E	TBD	Home–away	4
		Pool F	TBD	Home–away	4
	2021 EuroVolley		TBD	Belgrade	21+3

Asian Qualification Tournaments

Qualified teams

Of the 61 AVC member associations, a total of 13 AVC member national teams entered the qualifying stage.

Direct qualification round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their previous edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the previous ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same zonal association. The draw was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
South Korea (H)	Japan	Thailand	China
Iran	Kazakhstan	Chinese Taipei	Sri Lanka
Hong Kong	Australia	New Zealand	Indonesia
	India

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the next phase and final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts

Direct qualification round

Of the 13 qualified teams, top ten teams will be qualified to the next round.

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	South Korea (H, Q)	2	6
2	Iran (Q)	2	3
3	Hong Kong	2	0

Source: AVC
(H) Host; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Japan (Q)	3	9
2	Kazakhstan (Q)	3	6
3	Australia	3	3
4	India	3	0

Source: AVC
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Thailand (Q)	2	6
2	Chinese Taipei (Q)	2	3
3	New Zealand	2	0

Source: AVC
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	China (Q)	2	6
2	Indonesia (Q)	2	3
3	Sri Lanka	2	0

Source: AVC
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool G

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Hong Kong	1	3
2	New Zealand	1	0

Source: AVC

Pool H

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Australia	2	6
2	India	2	2
3	Sri Lanka	2	1

Source: AVC

Play offs

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	11:00	Hong Kong	0–3	India (Q)	19–25	14–25	22–25			55–75	P2
24 Aug	13:30	(Q) Australia	3–2	New Zealand	25–13	25–20	24–26	26–28	15–9	115–96	P2

Final round

Of the 16 qualified teams, winner and runner-up will be qualified to the next round.

European Qualification Tournaments

Qualified teams

Of the 56 CEV member associations, a total of 48 CEV member national teams entered the qualifying stage.

Direct qualification round

The drawing of lots is combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:[2]

The four Organisers are seeded in Preliminary pools. Turkey in Pool A, Poland in Pool B, Hungary in Pool C and Slovakia in Pool D.
The first and second best ranked from the previous edition of the CEV competition are drawn in different Preliminary pools,
According to the CEV National Team ranking list as per 2 October 2017, National Federations are seeded by descending order in a number of cups that equals the number of Preliminary pools.

The drawing of lots was held on 23 January 2019 at the Basketmakers' Kiosk in Istanbul.[3]

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Turkey	Poland	Hungary	Slovakia
Serbia	Italy	Netherlands	Russia
Bulgaria	Belgium	Croatia	Germany
France	Ukraine	Azerbaijan	Belarus
Finland	Portugal	Romania	Spain
Greece	Slovenia	Estonia	Switzerland

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the next phase and final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts

Direct qualification round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Serbia (Q)	5	15
2	Turkey (H)	5	11
3	Bulgaria (Q)	5	7
4	Greece (Q)	5	6
5	Finland	5	4
6	France	5	2

Source: CEV EuroVolley
(H) Host; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Italy	5	13
2	Poland (H)	5	12
3	Belgium	5	11
4	Slovenia	5	5
5	Ukraine	5	4
6	Portugal	5	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley
(H) Host.

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Netherlands	5	15
2	Azerbaijan	5	10
3	Croatia	5	10
4	Romania (Q)	5	6
5	Hungary (H)	5	3
6	Estonia	5	1

Source: CEV EuroVolley
(H) Host; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Germany	5	14
2	Russia	5	13
3	Slovakia (H)	5	8
4	Spain	5	5
5	Switzerland	5	4
6	Belarus	5	1

Source: CEV EuroVolley
(H) Host.

Play offs

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
1 Sep	15:30	(Q) Russia	3–1	Belgium	25–22	25–15	21–25	25–22		96–84	Report
1 Sep	16:00	(Q) Netherlands	3–0	Greece	25–21	25–23	25–12			75–56	Report
1 Sep	17:00	Serbia	3–0	Romania	25–20	25–17	25–23			75–60	Report
1 Sep	18:00	(Q) Germany	3–0	Slovenia	25–21	25–15	25–20			75–56	Report
1 Sep	18:00	(Q) Italy	3–0	Slovakia	25–20	25–23	25–20			75–63	Report
1 Sep	18:30	Azerbaijan	0–3	Bulgaria	12–25	16–25	23–25			51–75	Report
1 Sep	19:30	(Q) Turkey	3–2	Croatia	26–24	18–25	31–33	25–22	16–14	116–118	Report
1 Sep	20:30	(Q) Poland	3–0	Spain	25–20	25–20	25–19			75–59	Report

Head to head

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Belgium (Q)	5	11
2	Azerbaijan (Q)	5	10
3	Croatia	5	10
4	Slovakia	5	8
5	Spain	5	5
6	Slovenia	5	5

Source: CEV EuroVolley
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Qualification round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	A1	0	0
2	A2	0	0
3	A3	0	0
4	A4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	B1	0	0
2	B2	0	0
3	B3	0	0
4	B4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	C1	0	0
2	C2	0	0
3	C3	0	0
4	C4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	D1	0	0
2	D2	0	0
3	D3	0	0
4	D4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	E1	0	0
2	E2	0	0
3	E3	0	0
4	E4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	F1	0	0
2	F2	0	0
3	F3	0	0
4	F4	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Final round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	A1	0	0
2	A2	0	0
3	A3	0	0
4	A4	0	0
5	A5	0	0
6	A6	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	B1	0	0
2	B2	0	0
3	B3	0	0
4	B4	0	0
5	B5	0	0
6	B6	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	C1	0	0
2	C2	0	0
3	C3	0	0
4	C4	0	0
5	C5	0	0
6	C6	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	D1	0	0
2	D2	0	0
3	D3	0	0
4	D4	0	0
5	D5	0	0
6	D6	0	0

Source: CEV EuroVolley

Final round

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gold medal

Bronze medal

North American Qualification Tournaments

Caribbean qualification round

Central American qualification round

Eastern Caribbean qualification round

Intercontinental Qualification Tournaments

Qualified teams

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E	Pool F

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	A1	0	0
2	A2	0	0
3	A3	0	0
4	A4	0	0

Source: FIVB

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	B1	0	0
2	B2	0	0
3	B3	0	0
4	B4	0	0

Source: FIVB

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	C1	0	0
2	C2	0	0
3	C3	0	0
4	C4	0	0

Source: FIVB

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	D1	0	0
2	D2	0	0
3	D3	0	0
4	D4	0	0

Source: FIVB

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	E1	0	0
2	E2	0	0
3	E3	0	0
4	E4	0	0

Source: FIVB

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	F1	0	0
2	F2	0	0
3	F3	0	0
4	F4	0	0

Source: FIVB

References

"FIVB ANNOUNCES DATES AND HOST CITIES FOR MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022 IN RUSSIA". asianvolleyball.net. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
https://ebook.cev.eu/competitions/2018_ECH/OC/2018_ECH_OC.pdf
https://www.cev.eu/News.aspx?NewsID=28402&ID=5

External links

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website

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[WCH2022-1] "FIVB ANNOUNCES DATES AND HOST CITIES FOR MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022 IN RUSSIA". asianvolleyball.net. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.

[2] ttps://ebook.cev.eu/competitions/2018_ECH/OC/2018_ECH_OC.pdf

[3] ttps://www.cev.eu/News.aspx?NewsID=28402&ID=5