2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship

The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship will be the 21st edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament will be held in Belgium and Netherlands, the first time that the tournament will be jointly-hosted by more than one country.

2021 FIVB Volleyball
Women's U20 World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Belgium
 Netherlands
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)

Japan are the defending champions, having won their first title in Mexico.

Qualification

A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Belgium and Netherlands, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams will qualify via five separate continental tournaments which must be held by 31 December 2020 at the latest. However, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent impact on some Confederations’ ability to organise the events within the given deadline, the FIVB has decided to postpone the deadline for continental qualifications to 28 February 2021. Additionally, in the case of no Continental Confederations being able to hold qualifying event, teams will qualify according to the respective Continental Rankings. The remaining 4 teams will qualify via the FIVB Junior World Ranking.[1][2][3][4]

Means of qualificationDateVenueVacanciesQualifier
Host Countries13 October 2020 Lausanne2 Belgium
 Netherlands
2020 European Championship22–30 August 2020 Zenica
Osijek		2 Turkey
 Serbia
2018 Asian Championship10–17 June 2018 Bac Ninh and Tu Son2 China
 Japan
2020 NORCECA Championship14–22 February 20212 Dominican Republic
 Cuba
2020 African Championship18–26 February 2021 Kampala2TBD
TBD
2020 South American ChampionshipTBDTBD2TBD
TBD
FIVB Junior World RankingAs per 1 March 2021 Lausanne4TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Total16

See also

References
  1. "Qualification process for 2021 FIVB Volleyball Age Group World Championships updated". fivb.com. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. "FIVB announces hosts for 2021 FIVB Volleyball Age Group World Championships". cev.eu. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  3. "Dates and venues for 2020 African Age Group Nations Championships announced". cavb.org. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  4. "NORCECA Age-group Continental Championships will not be held". norceca.info. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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