The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments, alternatively the 2023 Volleyball Women's World Cup (for the tournament held in Japan) and also known as FIVB Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier, was the three volleyball tournaments contested by 24 women's national teams of the (FIVB), where the top two teams 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 use the title of World Cup Japan 2023. Later, on 8 March 2023, FIVB confirmed that China and Poland will host the remaining two tournaments for women's OQTs. China will also host the men'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 17 October 2022.

CountryConfederationQualified asPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastCEV 1st World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 2nd World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CSV 3rd World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)NORCECA 4th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)AVC 5th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)AVC 6th World ranked non-qualified team0NoneNoneCEV 7th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)NORCECA 9th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 10th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 11th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 12th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 13th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)NORCECA 14th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)AVC 15th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 16th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)NORCECA 17th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 18th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CSV 19th World ranked non-qualified team0NoneNoneNORCECA 20th World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CSV 22nd World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)AVC 23rd World ranked non-qualified team120192019 (2019)CEV 24th World ranked non-qualified team0NoneNoneCEV 25th World ranked non-qualified team0NoneNoneCSV 26th World ranked non-qualified team0NoneNone

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 Women'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 (5) (6) (10) (1) (2) (3) (4) (7) (9) (11) (12) (13)

Pot 4 Pot 5 Pot 6 Pot 7 (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26)

Final draw

Pool APool BPool C

Venues Pool APool BPool C Ningbo, China Tokyo, Japan Łódź, PolandBeilun GymnasiumYoyogi National GymnasiumAtlas ArenaCapacity: 8,000Capacity: 13,291Capacity: 13,805

Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) 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 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 (Ningbo, 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.

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 Volleyball Women's World Cup.

Pool C (Łódź, Poland) All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The top two teams in this pool qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics volleyball tournament.

Qualifying teams for the Summer Olympics + Team Qualified on Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics 2 (2012, 2020) 4 (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) 3 (2004, 2012, 2020) 11 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) 12 (1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) 3 (1964, 1968, 2008)

See also 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments

References

External links Fédération Internationale de Volleyball Official website Competition formula Qualification process