Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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The men's qualification for the Olympic volleyball tournament took place between September 2023 and June 2024, allocating twelve teams for the final tournament. As the host nation and the reigning Olympic champions, France reserved a direct spot each for the men's team.[2]

The remainder of the twelve-team field endured a dual qualification pathway to secure the quota places for Paris 2024. First, the winners and runners-up from each of the three Olympic qualification tournaments qualified directly for the Games. Second, the last five berths were attributed to the eligible NOCs based on the FIVB World Rankings in June 2024, abiding by the universality principle, that was, prioritizing those from the continents without a qualified team yet in the Paris 2024 tournament.[2][3]

Qualification summary

Qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified team
Host nation — 1  France
FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments[4] Pool A 30 September – 8 October 2023 Brazil Rio de Janeiro 2  Germany
 Brazil
Pool B Japan Tokyo 2  United States
 Japan
Pool C China Xi'an 2  Poland
 Canada
World Ranking qualification pathway 24 June 2024 — 5  Slovenia
 Italy
 Argentina
 Serbia
 Egypt
Total 12

Host country

FIVB reserved a berth for the 2024 Summer Olympics host country to participate in the tournament.[2]

  •  France – 2020 Summer Olympic champion

FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournament

Main article: 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments

As a principal route for the tournament, the winners and runners-up in each of the three qualification pools secured the quota places for Paris 2024.[2]

Qualified teams

FIVB released the names of the twenty-four teams eligible to compete in the men's Olympic qualification tournaments for Paris 2024 through the federation's world rankings of 12 September 2022 (except France — qualified for the Games as the host nation; and Russia — ineligible because of the country's instigation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine).[5][6]

Qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament
Qualified as hosts for the 2024 Summer Olympics
Ineligible for international competition[6]
Seed Team Points
1  Poland 389
2  Italy 369
—  France 368
3  Brazil 361
—  Russia 352
4  United States 333
5  Japan 277
6  Argentina 273
7  Slovenia 268
8  Iran 267
9  Serbia 253
10  Cuba 230
11  Netherlands 228
12  Turkey 200
13  Canada 189
14  Ukraine 187
15  Germany 184
16  Mexico 175
17  Tunisia 172
18  Egypt 157
19  Belgium 153
21  Bulgaria 152
22  Finland 152
23  Qatar 152
24  China 151

Pool draw

Pool A Pool B Pool C
 Brazil  Japan  China
 Italy  United States  Poland
 Iran  Slovenia  Argentina
 Cuba  Serbia  Netherlands
 Ukraine  Turkey  Canada
 Germany  Tunisia  Mexico
 Czech Republic  Egypt  Belgium
 Qatar  Finland  Bulgaria

Pool A (Brazil)

Pos Team
 Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Germany 7 7 0 21 21 4 5.250 611 493 1.239 Qualified for the
2024 Olympics
2  Brazil (H) 7 6 1 15 19 10 1.900 672 616 1.091
3  Cuba 7 5 2 14 17 9 1.889 598 562 1.064
4  Italy 7 4 3 13 16 10 1.600 616 564 1.092
5  Ukraine 7 3 4 10 11 14 0.786 539 580 0.929
6  Czech Republic 7 2 5 7 10 17 0.588 587 638 0.920
7  Iran 7 1 6 4 7 19 0.368 545 617 0.883
8  Qatar 7 0 7 0 3 21 0.143 507 605 0.838
Source: Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Men's standings
(H) Host

Pool B (Japan)

Pos Team
 Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  United States 7 7 0 20 21 4 5.250 610 474 1.287 Qualified for the
2024 Olympics
2  Japan (H) 7 5 2 16 19 8 2.375 622 504 1.234
3  Slovenia 7 5 2 15 16 8 2.000 566 532 1.064
4  Turkey 7 4 3 11 13 13 1.000 605 599 1.010
5  Serbia 7 3 4 9 10 13 0.769 496 517 0.959
6  Finland 7 2 5 7 11 17 0.647 575 617 0.932
7  Egypt 7 2 5 5 11 19 0.579 577 682 0.846
8  Tunisia 7 0 7 1 2 21 0.095 425 551 0.771
Source: Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Men's standings
(H) Host

Pool C (China)

Pos Team
 Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Poland 7 7 0 18 21 8 2.625 682 603 1.131 Qualified for the
2024 Olympics
2  Canada 7 5 2 15 18 9 2.000 626 576 1.087
3  Argentina 7 5 2 13 17 10 1.700 627 607 1.033
4  Belgium 7 4 3 15 18 11 1.636 664 598 1.110
5  Bulgaria 7 4 3 11 12 11 1.091 535 527 1.015
6  Netherlands 7 2 5 6 9 17 0.529 568 591 0.961
7  China (H) 7 1 6 6 10 18 0.556 559 623 0.897
8  Mexico 7 0 7 0 0 21 0.000 389 525 0.741
Source: Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Men's standings
(H) Host

World ranking qualification

The remaining five berths were attributed to the highest-ranked eligible NOCs based on the FIVB world rankings at the end of the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Nations League preliminary phase.[3] Under the universality principle, the teams were selected according to the order of priority: 1) those from the continent without a qualified team; and 2) highest-ranked eligible NOCs irrespective of the continent.

Qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics via Olympic Qualification Tournament
Qualified as hosts for the 2024 Summer Olympics
Classifying via be the best ranked team from a continent without a qualified team in 2024 Summer Olympics (Africa)
Classifying via remaining spots for Top World Ranking teams not qualified via Olympic Qualification Tournament
Top 25 rankings as of 23 June 2024[7]
Seed Team Points
1  Poland 424.50
2  Japan 354.75
3  Slovenia 354.46
4  Italy 352.33
5  United States 325.89
6  Brazil 318.52
7  France 317.34
8  Argentina 298.34
9  Canada 279.67
10  Serbia 259.97
11  Germany 250.28
12  Cuba 249.34
13  Netherlands 204.81
14  Ukraine 200.61
15  Iran 185.07
16  Belgium 180.15
17  Turkey 179.58
18  Czech Republic 165.11
19  Egypt 164.05
20  Bulgaria 161.06
21  Qatar 153.67
22  Croatia 148.48
23  Portugal 147.16
24  Finland 146.72
25  Tunisia 145.09

See also

References

  1. ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Volleyball" (PDF). FIVB. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "The Road to Paris 2024: Olympic qualification system for volleyball at Paris 2024". FIVB. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b Vieira, Sheila (13 December 2022). "How to qualify for volleyball at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Impressive Line-Up Of Hosts Confirmed For Volleyball's Olympic Qualification Tournaments". FIVB. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Teams invited for men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments as volleyball's road to Paris 2024 gets underway". International Olympic Committee. 12 September 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  6. ^ a b "FIVB declares Russia and Belarus not eligible for international and continental competitions". FIVB. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  7. ^ "FIVB Men's Volleyball World Ranking". Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. 23 June 2024. Archived from the original on 23 June 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.