Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The qualification for the 2020 men's Olympic volleyball tournament allocated twelve teams quota spots: the hosts, the winners in each of the six pools of Intercontinental Qualifying Tournament, and five continental Olympic qualification tournament winners. Teams already qualified for the event are not eligible to play in the following qualification tournaments. The 2020 Olympics was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Qualification summary

Event		Dates	Venue(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host Country[2]		7 September 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan
Intercontinental Qualifier	Pool A	9–11 August 2019	Varna	1	Brazil
	Pool B		Rotterdam	1	United States
	Pool C		Bari	1	Italy
	Pool D		Gdańsk–Sopot	1	Poland
	Pool E		Saint Petersburg	1	Russia
	Pool F		Ningbo	1	Argentina
European Qualifier		5–10 January 2020	Berlin	1	France
Asian Qualifier		7–12 January 2020	Jiangmen	1	Iran
African Qualifier		7–11 January 2020	Cairo	1	Tunisia
South American Qualifier		10–12 January 2020	Mostazal	1	Venezuela
North American Qualifier		10–12 January 2020	Vancouver	1	Canada
Total				12

Timeline

Confederation	Tournament		Date	Venue	Teams
FIVB (Intercontinental)	FIVB Tokyo Volleyball Qualification	Pool A	9–11 August 2019	Varna	4
		Pool B	9–11 August 2019	Rotterdam	4
		Pool C	9–11 August 2019	Bari	4
		Pool D	9–11 August 2019	Gdańsk–Sopot	4
		Pool E	9–11 August 2019	Saint Petersburg	4
		Pool F	9–11 August 2019	Ningbo	4
CAVB (Africa)	CAVB Tokyo Volleyball Qualification		7–11 January 2020	Cairo	4
AVC (Asia and Oceania)	Asian Championship Western Asia Qualification		17–21 July 2019	Muscat	3
	Asian Championship		13–21 September 2019	Tehran	15+1
	AVC Tokyo Volleyball Qualification		7–12 January 2020	Jiangmen	8
CEV (Europe)	CEV Tokyo Volleyball Qualification		5–10 January 2020	Berlin	8
NORCECA (North America)	NORCECA Champions Cup		22–24 August 2019	Colorado Springs	4
	NORCECA Championship		2–7 September 2019	Winnipeg	6+1
	NORCECA Tokyo Volleyball Qualification		10–12 January 2020	Vancouver	4
CSV (South America)	South American Championship		10–14 September 2019	Mostazal	6+2
CSV (South America)	CSV Tokyo Volleyball Qualification		10–12 January 2020	Mostazal	4

Pool standing procedure

For all qualification tournaments except North American qualification tournament

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 points 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:
- Sets 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 sets won by the number of all sets lost.
- Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets 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 points 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 points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

For North American qualification tournament only

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 points gained per match as follows:
- Match won 3–0: 5 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
- Match won 3–1: 4 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
- Match won 3–2: 3 points for the winner, 2 point for the loser
- Match forfeited: 5 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 NORCECA will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
- Points 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 all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
- Sets quotient: if the tie persists based on the points quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all sets won by the number of all sets lost.
- If the tie persists based on the sets 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 sets quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Host country

FIVB reserved a berth for the 2020 Summer Olympics host country to participate in the tournament.

Japan

Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournament

The winners in each pool qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Qualified teams

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 1 October 2018.[3] Rankings are shown in brackets.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Brazil (1)	United States (2)	Italy (3) (H)	Poland (4) (H)	Russia (5) (H)	Canada (6)
Egypt (13)	Belgium (12)	Serbia (10)	France (9)	Iran (8)	Argentina (7)
Bulgaria (14) (H)	Netherlands (15) (H)	Australia (16)	Slovenia (17)	Cuba (18)	Finland (19)
Puerto Rico (24)	South Korea (24)	Cameroon (23)	Tunisia (22)	Mexico (21)	China (20) (H)

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
(H): Qualification group hosts

Qualification round

Twenty-four teams qualified for the competition as the top twenty-four teams of FIVB World Ranking on 1 October 2018[4] (except Japan who qualified as hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics.).[3][5]

	Qualified to 2019 IOQT
	2020 Summer Olympics host country

Seeding	Team	WC 2015	OG 2016	WL 2017	WCH 2018	Total
1	Brazil	80	100	45	90	315
2	United States	100	80	40	80	300
3	Italy	90	90	24	62	266
4	Poland	80	50	32	100	262
5	Russia	70	70	38	56	234
6	Canada	30	50	42	45	167
7	Argentina	50	50	28	33	161
8	Iran	25	50	26	36	137
9	France	0	30	50	50	130
10	Serbia	0	2	38	70	110
–	Japan	40	2	20	30	92
11	Belgium	0	1	34	45	80
12	Egypt	5	30	10	30	75
13	Bulgaria	0	2	30	40	72
14	Netherlands	0	0	18	50	68
15	Australia	5	3	19	36	63
16	Slovenia	0	0	22	40	62
17	Cuba	0	20	0	30	50
18	Finland	0	1	13	33	47
19	China	0	2	17	25	44
20	Mexico	0	20	6	14	40
21	Tunisia	5	3	5	25	38
22	Cameroon	0	2	0	30	32
23	South Korea	0	0	16	12	28
23	Puerto Rico	0	3	0	25	28

Final round

Means of qualification

	Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Brazil (Q)	3	8
2	Bulgaria (H)	3	7
3	Egypt	3	3
4	Puerto Rico	3	0

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

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	United States (Q)	3	9
2	Netherlands (H)	3	5
3	Belgium	3	3
4	South Korea	3	1

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

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Italy (H, Q)	3	8
2	Serbia	3	6
3	Australia	3	4
4	Cameroon	3	0

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

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Poland (H, Q)	3	9
2	France	3	6
3	Slovenia	3	3
4	Tunisia	3	0

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

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Russia (H, Q)	3	9
2	Iran	3	5
3	Cuba	3	4
4	Mexico	3	0

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

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Argentina (Q)	3	8
2	Canada	3	5
3	China (H)	3	5
4	Finland	3	0

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

Continental Olympic Qualification Tournaments