Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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	Rio de Janeiro	2	Germany
					Brazil
	Pool B		Tokyo	2	United States
					Japan
	Pool C		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 v t e	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 v t e	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 v t e	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

• Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League

References

1. "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Volleyball" (PDF). FIVB. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
2. "The Road to Paris 2024: Olympic qualification system for volleyball at Paris 2024". FIVB. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
3. 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. "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.