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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 2, 2016 – The FIVB Sports Events
Council approved on Tuesday the concept of the qualification
process for each continent for the FIVB Volleyball World
Championships in 2018, which will take place in Japan (women)
and Italy and Bulgaria (men) in 2018, being confirmed by
respective confederations.
Each Continental Confederation will be responsible for their
qualification process and the Confederations will inform the
FIVB on their agreed system by April 1, 2016.
The qualification system will be played between May 15, 2016 and
October 15, 2017.
Number of participating teams and vacancies by continent
The Drawing of Lots for the FIVB Volleyball World Championships
2018 will take place by December 2017 using the FIVB World
Ranking as of September 30, 2017.
World champions USA (women) and Poland (men) are automatically
qualified and are joined by the host counties Japan (women) and
Italy and Bulgaria (men) in not having to participate in the
qualification process.
A proposal for the competition formula will be made to the FIVB
Board of Administration meeting in April however the Sports
Events Council did confirm the following points:
- same formula for men and women’s competition
- simple formula / easy to communicate to audience
- minimum number of matches guaranteed → 5 matches
- number of matches for the winning team → 11 to 13 matches
- maximum of 21 days of competition (2 or 3 matches per day)
- Since it is the first time that two countries host an FIVB
World Championship, Italy and Bulgaria will be kept separate for
the first two phases during the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World
Championship 2018.
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