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2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments

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Tournament details
Host nations	Brazil  Japan  China
City	Rio de Janeiro Tokyo Xi'an
Dates	30 September – 8 October
Teams	24
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	84
Attendance	263,079 (3,132 per match)
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The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments, alternatively the 2023 Volleyball Men's World Cup (for the tournament held in Japan) and also known as FIVB Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier, were the three volleyball tournaments contested by 24 men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), where the top two teams in each pool earned a place in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Hosts selection

On 16 October 2022, FIVB announced that Japan will host one of three tournaments for both men's and women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments (OQTs). The men's and women's OQTs held in Japan will traditionally known as World Cup in Japan. Later, on 8 March 2023, FIVB confirmed that Brazil and China will host the remaining two tournaments for men's OQTs. China will also host the women's OQTs.

Qualification

The FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments (OQTs) include the 24 best-placed non-qualified teams (except Russia who is ineligible to compete in the OQTs due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine) from the FIVB World Rankings as of 12 September 2022.

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
POL	CEV	01 1st World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
ITA	CEV	02 2nd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
BRA	CSV	03 4th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
USA	NORCECA	04 6th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
JPN	AVC	05 7th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
ARG	CSV	06 8th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
SLO	CEV	07 9th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
IRI	AVC	08 10th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
SRB	CEV	09 11th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
CUB	NORCECA	10 12th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
NED	CEV	11 13th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
TUR	CEV	12 14th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
CAN	NORCECA	13 15th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
UKR	CEV	14 16th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
GER	CEV	15 17th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
MEX	NORCECA	16 18th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
TUN	CAVB	17 19th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
EGY	CAVB	18 20th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
BEL	CEV	19 21st World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
CZE	CEV	20 22nd World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
BUL	CEV	21 23rd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
FIN	CEV	22 24th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
QAT	AVC	23 25th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
CHN	AVC	24 26th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)

Pools composition

According to the qualification system, the twenty-four teams were placed into three pools of eight teams. For the first position of each pool, FIVB reserved the right to the three hosts with the top-ranked hosted team allocated to pool A, the middle-ranked hosted team allocated to pool B, and the last-ranked hosted team allocated to pool C. The remaining twenty-one teams were allocated into seven pots of three teams based on the FIVB Men's World Rankings of 1 January 2023. The order of drawing was applied with the serpentine system. The teams for the even-number position (Pot 1, Pot 3, Pot 5, Pot 7) were drawn and then placed starting from pool C to pool A. The teams for the odd-number position (Pot 2, Pot 4, Pot 6) were drawn and then placed starting from pool A to pool C.

The drawing of lots ceremony was held at the FIVB headquarters "Château Les Tourelles" in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 17 March 2023, 13:00 CET.

Hosts	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
BRA (4)  JPN (7)  CHN (26)	POL (1)  ITA (2)  USA (6)	ARG (8)  SLO (9)  IRI (10)	SRB (11)  CUB (12)  NED (13)

Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6	Pot 7
TUR (14)  CAN (15)  UKR (16)	GER (17)  MEX (18)  TUN (19)	EGY (20)  BEL (21)  CZE (22)	BUL (23)  FIN (24)  QAT (25)

Final draw

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
BRA	JPN	CHN
ITA	USA	POL
IRI	SLO	ARG
CUB	SRB	NED
UKR	TUR	CAN
GER	TUN	MEX
CZE	EGY	BEL
QAT	FIN	BUL

Venues

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Tokyo, Japan	Xi'an, China
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Qujiang Sports Complex
Capacity: 11,800	Capacity: 13,291	Capacity: 10,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
   • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
   • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
   • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
   • Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
   • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
   • If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

Result

Pool A (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

• All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
• The top two teams in this pool qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics volleyball tournament.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	GER	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	611	493	1.239	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	BRA (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	672	616	1.091
3	CUB	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	598	562	1.064
4	ITA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	616	564	1.092
5	UKR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	539	580	0.929
6	CZE	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	587	638	0.920
7	IRI	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	545	617	0.883
8	QAT	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	507	605	0.838

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Sep	10:00	Brazil	3–0	QAT	25–16	25–19	26–24			76–59	P2 Report
30 Sep	13:30	Italy	3–1	CZE	24–26	25–18	25–22	25–19		99–85	P2 Report
30 Sep	17:00	Iran	1–3	GER	22–25	25–22	16–25	21–25		84–97	P2 Report
30 Sep	20:30	Cuba	3–0	UKR	25–16	25–19	25–18			75–53	P2 Report
1 Oct	10:00	Brazil	3–2	CZE	22–25	25–16	25–20	21–25	16–14	109–100	P2 Report
1 Oct	13:30	Cuba	1–3	GER	25–21	14–25	22–25	15–25		76–96	P2 Report
1 Oct	17:00	Italy	3–0	QAT	25–19	25–20	25–19			75–58	P2 Report
1 Oct	20:30	Iran	0–3	UKR	19–25	22–25	17–25			58–75	P2 Report
3 Oct	10:00	Iran	3–1	QAT	25–23	23–25	25–17	25–23		98–88	P2 Report
3 Oct	13:30	Cuba	3–0	CZE	26–24	25–21	25–21			76–66	P2 Report
3 Oct	17:00	Italy	3–0	UKR	25–23	25–16	25–16			75–55	P2 Report
3 Oct	20:30	Brazil	1–3	GER	25–21	19–25	19–25	26–28		89–99	P2 Report
4 Oct	10:00	Iran	1–3	CZE	17–25	22–25	25–21	20–25		84–96	P2 Report
4 Oct	13:30	Italy	1–3	GER	24–26	25–18	20–25	23–25		92–94	P2 Report
4 Oct	17:00	Cuba	3–0	QAT	25–21	25–21	25–16			75–58	P2 Report
4 Oct	20:30	Brazil	3–2	UKR	36–38	25–20	21–25	25–18	15–11	122–112	P2 Report
6 Oct	10:00	Brazil	3–1	CUB	23–25	25–18	25–20	25–20		98–83	P2 Report
6 Oct	13:30	Italy	3–0	IRI	25–22	25–22	25–23			75–67	P2 Report
6 Oct	17:00	Ukraine	3–1	QAT	25–22	27–29	26–24	25–21		103–96	P2 Report
6 Oct	20:30	Germany	3–0	CZE	25–23	25–18	25–17			75–58	P2 Report
7 Oct	10:00	Brazil	3–0	IRI	25–19	25–20	25–23			75–62	P2 Report
7 Oct	13:30	Italy	1–3	CUB	22–25	25–21	25–27	27–29		99–102	P2 Report
7 Oct	17:00	Ukraine	3–1	CZE	25–19	25–15	23–25	25–20		98–79	P2 Report
7 Oct	20:30	Germany	3–0	QAT	25–15	25–20	25–16			75–51	P2 Report
8 Oct	10:00	Brazil	3–2	ITA	25–23	23–25	15–25	25–17	15–11	103–101	P2 Report
8 Oct	13:30	Iran	2–3	CUB	20–25	25–23	25–23	13–25	9–15	92–111	P2 Report
8 Oct	17:00	Ukraine	0–3	GER	17–25	12–25	14–25			43–75	P2 Report
8 Oct	20:30	Czech Republic	3–1	QAT	25–27	28–26	25–23	25–21		103–97	P2 Report

Pool B (Tokyo, Japan)

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
• The top two teams in this pool qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics volleyball tournament.
• The top team in this pool reigns over the 2023 Men's Japan World Cup.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	USA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	610	474	1.287	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	JPN (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	622	504	1.234
3	SLO	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	566	532	1.064
4	TUR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	605	599	1.010
5	SRB	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	496	517	0.959
6	FIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	575	617	0.932
7	EGY	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	577	682	0.846
8	TUN	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	425	551	0.771

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Sep	10:00	Slovenia	3–0	TUN	25–20	25–18	25–21			75–59	P2 Report
30 Sep	13:00	Serbia	1–3	TUR	22–25	25–20	14–25	20–25		81–95	P2 Report
30 Sep	16:00	United States	3–0	EGY	25–20	25–16	25–19			75–55	P2 Report
30 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–2	FIN	25–17	25–15	25–27	19–25	15–12	109–96	P2 Report
1 Oct	10:00	Slovenia	3–0	TUR	28–26	30–28	25–22			83–76	P2 Report
1 Oct	13:00	Serbia	3–0	TUN	25–21	25–16	25–21			75–58	P2 Report
1 Oct	16:00	United States	3–0	FIN	25–17	25–15	25–17			75–49	P2 Report
1 Oct	19:25	Japan	2–3	EGY	25–14	25–10	23–25	23–25	13–15	109–89	P2 Report
3 Oct	10:00	Slovenia	3–1	FIN	25–19	18–25	25–20	25–18		93–82	P2 Report
3 Oct	13:00	Serbia	3–1	EGY	18–25	25–19	25–14	25–16		93–74	P2 Report
3 Oct	16:00	United States	3–1	TUR	25–17	26–28	32–30	25–20		108–95	P2 Report
3 Oct	19:25	Japan	3–0	TUN	25–14	25–16	25–15			75–45	P2 Report
4 Oct	10:00	Slovenia	3–1	EGY	23–25	25–22	25–17	25–14		98–78	P2 Report
4 Oct	13:00	Serbia	3–0	FIN	25–21	25–22	25–22			75–65	P2 Report
4 Oct	16:00	United States	3–0	TUN	25–11	25–12	25–14			75–37	P2 Report
4 Oct	19:25	Japan	3–0	TUR	25–15	25–20	25–19			75–54	P2 Report
6 Oct	10:00	Turkey	3–2	FIN	25–22	25–23	23–25	23–25	15–8	111–103	P2 Report
6 Oct	13:00	Tunisia	2–3	EGY	25–15	25–13	21–25	27–29	9–15	107–97	P2 Report
6 Oct	16:00	United States	3–1	SLO	25–18	21–25	25–20	25–18		96–81	P2 Report
6 Oct	19:25	Japan	3–0	SRB	25–17	25–14	25–22			75–53	P2 Report
7 Oct	10:00	Turkey	3–1	EGY	25–21	25–18	20–25	25–23		95–87	P2 Report
7 Oct	13:00	Tunisia	0–3	FIN	19–25	23–25	15–25			57–75	P2 Report
7 Oct	16:00	United States	3–0	SRB	25–18	25–18	25–17			75–53	P2 Report
7 Oct	19:25	Japan	3–0	SLO	25–21	25–22	25–18			75–61	P2 Report
8 Oct	10:00	Egypt	2–3	FIN	12–25	25–20	25–20	22–25	13–15	97–105	P2 Report
8 Oct	13:00	Turkey	3–0	TUN	25–13	25–22	29–27			79–62	P2 Report
8 Oct	16:00	Slovenia	3–0	SRB	25–22	25–23	25–21			75–66	P2 Report
8 Oct	19:25	Japan	2–3	USA	19–25	25–22	25–19	23–25	12–15	104–106	P2 Report

2023 Men's Japan World Cup champions
United States

Pool C (Xi'an, China)

• All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
• The top two teams in this pool qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics volleyball tournament.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	POL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	682	603	1.131	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	CAN	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	626	576	1.087
3	ARG	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	627	607	1.033
4	BEL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	664	598	1.110
5	BUL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	535	527	1.015
6	NED	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	568	591	0.961
7	CHN (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	559	623	0.897
8	MEX	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	389	525	0.741

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Sep	10:00	Argentina	3–0	MEX	25–20	25–17	25–19			75–56	P2 Report
30 Sep	13:00	Netherlands	2–3	CAN	21–25	25–23	26–24	18–25	12–15	102–112	P2 Report
30 Sep	16:00	Poland	3–2	BEL	23–25	25–20	25–16	21–25	17–15	111–101	P2 Report
30 Sep	19:30	China	0–3	BUL	18–25	19–25	14–25			51–75	P2 Report
1 Oct	10:00	Argentina	1–3	CAN	25–27	22–25	25–23	15–25		87–100	P2 Report
1 Oct	13:00	Netherlands	3–0	MEX	25–19	25–19	25–16			75–54	P2 Report
1 Oct	16:00	Poland	3–0	BUL	26–24	25–20	25–21			76–65	P2 Report
1 Oct	19:30	China	1–3	BEL	18–25	25–22	19–25	17–25		79–97	P2 Report
3 Oct	10:00	Argentina	3–0	BUL	27–25	25–21	31–29			83–75	P2 Report
3 Oct	13:00	Netherlands	0–3	BEL	22–25	19–25	15–25			56–75	P2 Report
3 Oct	16:00	Poland	3–2	CAN	21–25	25–20	25–20	20–25	17–15	108–105	P2 Report
3 Oct	19:30	China	3–0	MEX	25–21	25–9	25–19			75–49	P2 Report
4 Oct	10:00	Netherlands	0–3	BUL	23–25	21–25	28–30			72–80	P2 Report
4 Oct	13:00	Argentina	3–2	BEL	25–22	25–23	18–25	21–25	15–13	104–108	P2 Report
4 Oct	16:00	Poland	3–0	MEX	25–21	25–19	25–14			75–54	P2 Report
4 Oct	19:30	China	0–3	CAN	19–25	22–25	24–26			65–76	P2 Report
6 Oct	10:00	Canada	3–0	BUL	25–21	25–17	25–18			75–56	P2 Report
6 Oct	13:00	Mexico	0–3	BEL	18–25	21–25	17–25			56–75	P2 Report
6 Oct	16:00	Poland	3–1	ARG	25–23	23–25	28–26	25–20		101–94	P2 Report
6 Oct	19:30	China	2–3	NED	25–22	16–25	16–25	25–21	11–15	93–108	P2 Report
7 Oct	10:00	Canada	1–3	BEL	14–25	25–22	28–30	16–25		83–102	P2 Report
7 Oct	13:00	Mexico	0–3	BUL	23–25	19–25	22–25			64–75	P2 Report
7 Oct	16:00	Poland	3–1	NED	21–25	25–17	25–22	29–27		100–91	P2 Report
7 Oct	19:30	China	2–3	ARG	25–22	22–25	19–25	25–20	12–15	103–107	P2 Report
8 Oct	10:00	Belgium	2–3	BUL	21–25	25–23	25–21	22–25	13–15	106–109	P2Report
8 Oct	13:00	Argentina	3–0	NED	25–17	27–25	25–22			77–64	P2 Report
8 Oct	16:00	Canada	3–0	MEX	25–20	25–21	25–15			75–56	P2 Report
8 Oct	19:30	China	2–3	POL	20–25	25–23	25–22	9–25	14–16	93–111	P2 Report

Qualifying teams for the Summer Olympics

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics
USA	7 October 2023	12 (1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
POL	7 October 2023	10 (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
JPN	7 October 2023	9 (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2008, 2020)
GER	7 October 2023	4 (1968, 1972, 2008, 2012)
CAN	8 October 2023	5 (1976, 1984, 1992, 2016, 2020)
BRA	8 October 2023	15 (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

See also

• 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments