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2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments

2023年女排奥运资格赛 FIVBパリ五輪予選/ワールドカップバレー2023 Turniej Kwalifikacyjny do Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2023
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Tournament details
Host nations	China  Japan  Poland
City	Ningbo Tokyo Łódź
Dates	16–24 September
Teams	24
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	84
Attendance	307,932 (3,666 per match)
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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, were the three volleyball tournaments contested by 24 women's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (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.

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
SRB	CEV	01 1st World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
ITA	CEV	02 2nd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
BRA	CSV	03 3rd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
USA	NORCECA	04 4th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
CHN	AVC	05 5th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	01 Qualified (2019)
JPN	AVC	06 6th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
TUR	CEV	07 7th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
DOM	NORCECA	08 9th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
POL	CEV	09 10th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
BEL	CEV	10 11th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
NED	CEV	11 12th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
GER	CEV	12 13th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
CAN	NORCECA	13 14th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
THA	AVC	14 15th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
BUL	CEV	15 16th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
PUR	NORCECA	16 17th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
CZE	CEV	17 18th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
COL	CSV	18 19th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
MEX	NORCECA	19 20th World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	04 19th place (2019)
ARG	CSV	20 22nd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	03 13th place (2019)
KOR	AVC	21 23rd World ranked non-qualified team	1	2019	2019	02 7th place (2019)
UKR	CEV	22 24th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
SLO	CEV	23 25th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None
PER	CSV	24 26th World ranked non-qualified team	0	None		None

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
CHN (5)  JPN (6)  POL (10)	SRB (1)  ITA (2)  BRA (3)	USA (4)  TUR (7)  DOM (9)	BEL (11)  NED (12)  GER (13)

Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6	Pot 7
CAN (14)  THA (15)  BUL (16)	PUR (17)  CZE (18)  COL (19)	MEX (20)  ARG (22)  KOR (23)	UKR (24)  SLO (25)  PER (26)

Final draw

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
CHN	JPN	POL
SRB	BRA	ITA
DOM	TUR	USA
NED	BEL	GER
CAN	BUL	THA
CZE	PUR	COL
MEX	ARG	KOR
UKR	PER	SLO

Venues

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
Ningbo, China	Tokyo, Japan	Łódź, Poland
Beilun Gymnasium	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Atlas Arena
Capacity: 8,000	Capacity: 13,291	Capacity: 13,805

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. 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
3. 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	DOM	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	670	597	1.122	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	SRB	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	576	507	1.136
3	CAN	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	615	600	1.025
4	CHN (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	620	544	1.140
5	NED	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	599	561	1.068
6	UKR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	493	563	0.876
7	CZE	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	545	610	0.893
8	MEX	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	435	571	0.762

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
16 Sep	10:00	Serbia	3–0	MEX	25–16	25–19	25–23			75–58	P2 Report
16 Sep	13:00	Dominican Republic	2–3	CZE	21–25	25–21	21–25	26–24	12–15	105–110	P2 Report
16 Sep	16:00	Netherlands	2–3	CAN	30–32	25–19	25–15	17–25	13–15	110–106	P2 Report
16 Sep	19:30	China	3–0	UKR	25–21	25–18	25–21			75–60	P2 Report
17 Sep	10:00	Netherlands	3–0	CZE	25–13	25–18	25–21			75–52	P2 Report
17 Sep	13:00	Dominican Republic	3–2	CAN	25–17	22–25	23–25	25–18	15–12	110–97	P2 Report
17 Sep	16:00	Serbia	3–0	UKR	25–18	25–18	25–16			75–52	P2 Report
17 Sep	19:30	China	3–0	MEX	25–14	25–18	25–7			75–39	P2 Report
19 Sep	10:00	Serbia	3–0	CAN	25–19	25–17	25–21			75–57	P2 Report
19 Sep	13:00	Dominican Republic	3–0	UKR	25–17	25–21	31–29			81–67	P2 Report
19 Sep	16:00	Netherlands	3–0	MEX	25–18	25–18	25–17			75–53	P2 Report
19 Sep	19:30	China	3–0	CZE	25–12	25–16	25–23			75–51	P2 Report
20 Sep	10:00	Netherlands	3–0	UKR	25–23	25–21	25–16			75–60	P2 Report
20 Sep	13:00	Dominican Republic	3–0	MEX	25–17	27–25	25–16			77–58	P2 Report
20 Sep	16:00	Serbia	3–1	CZE	25–20	25–22	30–32	25–20		105–94	P2 Report
20 Sep	19:30	China	2–3	CAN	26–28	25–15	23–25	25–22	15–17	114–107	P2 Report
22 Sep	10:00	Serbia	1–3	DOM	23–25	25–18	23–25	17–25		88–93	P2 Report
22 Sep	13:00	Canada	3–1	UKR	25–22	23–25	25–12	25–11		98–70	P2 Report
22 Sep	16:00	Czech Republic	3–1	MEX	25–17	25–19	18–25	29–27		97–88	P2 Report
22 Sep	19:30	China	2–3	NED	25–18	26–24	19–25	24–26	13–15	107–108	P2 Report
23 Sep	10:00	Czech Republic	1–3	UKR	25–12	23–25	18–25	15–25		81–87	P2 Report
23 Sep	13:00	Canada	3–0	MEX	25–22	25–22	25–17			75–61	P2 Report
23 Sep	16:00	Serbia	3–0	NED	25–19	25–16	25–20			75–55	P2 Report
23 Sep	19:30	China	1–3	DOM	23–25	25–21	14–25	14–25		76–96	P2 Report
24 Sep	10:00	Mexico	1–3	UKR	12–25	22–25	25–22	19–25		78–97	P2 Report
24 Sep	13:00	Canada	3–0	CZE	25–20	25–19	25–21			75–60	P2 Report
24 Sep	16:00	Dominican Republic	3–2	NED	25–20	20–25	25–19	23–25	15–12	108–101	P2 Report
24 Sep	19:30	China	3–1	SRB	23–25	25–22	25–14	25–22		98–83	P2 Report

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 Women's Japan World Cup.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	TUR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	603	468	1.288	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	BRA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	585	479	1.221
3	JPN (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	567	463	1.225
4	PUR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	529	552	0.958
5	ARG	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	565	608	0.929
6	BEL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	461	508	0.907
7	BUL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	502	583	0.861
8	PER	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	424	575	0.737

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
16 Sep	10:00	Belgium	3–0	BUL	25–19	26–24	25–21			76–64	P2 Report
16 Sep	13:00	Turkey	3–0	PUR	25–19	25–16	25–14			75–49	P2 Report
16 Sep	16:00	Brazil	3–0	ARG	25–17	25–20	25–22			75–59	P2 Report
16 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–0	PER	25–9	25–19	25–15			75–43	P2 Report
17 Sep	10:00	Belgium	1–3	PUR	25–20	23–25	19–25	19–25		86–95	P2 Report
17 Sep	13:00	Turkey	3–0	BUL	25–20	25–19	25–15			75–54	P2 Report
17 Sep	16:00	Brazil	3–0	PER	25–14	25–13	25–15			75–42	P2 Report
17 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–0	ARG	25–18	25–18	25–23			75–59	P2 Report
19 Sep	10:00	Belgium	0–3	ARG	21–25	20–25	18–25			59–75	P2 Report
19 Sep	13:00	Turkey	3–1	PER	25–18	25–27	25–17	29–27		104–89	P2 Report
19 Sep	16:00	Brazil	3–2	BUL	25–13	22–25	27–29	25–21	15–8	114–96	P2 Report
19 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–0	PUR	25–23	25–21	25–13			75–57	P2 Report
20 Sep	10:00	Belgium	3–0	PER	25–12	25–13	25–21			75–46	P2 Report
20 Sep	13:00	Turkey	3–1	ARG	25–16	22–25	25–15	25–15		97–71	P2 Report
20 Sep	16:00	Brazil	3–0	PUR	25–21	25–15	25–9			75–45	P2 Report
20 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–0	BUL	25–20	25–13	25–11			75–44	P2 Report
22 Sep	10:00	Puerto Rico	3–2	ARG	28–30	19–25	25–19	25–23	15–8	112–105	P2 Report
22 Sep	13:00	Bulgaria	3–0	PER	25–13	25–18	25–16			75–47	P2 Report
22 Sep	16:00	Brazil	0–3	TUR	21–25	27–29	19–25			67–79	P2 Report
22 Sep	19:25	Japan	3–0	BEL	28–26	25–18	25–14			78–58	P2 Report
23 Sep	10:00	Puerto Rico	3–0	PER	26–24	25–22	25–21			76–67	P2 Report
23 Sep	13:00	Bulgaria	2–3	ARG	14–25	25–14	20–25	25–19	16–18	100–101	P2 Report
23 Sep	16:00	Brazil	3–0	BEL	25–18	25–14	25–20			75–52	P2 Report
23 Sep	19:25	Japan	1–3	TUR	25–22	22–25	24–26	12–25		83–98	P2 Report
24 Sep	10:00	Bulgaria	1–3	PUR	14–25	25–20	18–25	12–25		69–95	P2 Report
24 Sep	13:00	Argentina	3–2	PER	20–25	25–12	10–25	25–18	15–10	95–90	P2 Report
24 Sep	16:00	Turkey	3–0	BEL	25–14	25–20	25–21			75–55	P2 Report
24 Sep	19:25	Japan	2–3	BRA	21–25	25–22	25–27	25–15	10–15	106–104	P2 Report

2023 Women's Japan World Cup champions
Turkey

14-woman roster

Gizem Örge, Simge Aköz, Cansu Özbay, Melissa Vargas, Ayça Aykaç, Kübra Akman, Hande Baladın, Derya Cebecioğlu, Elif Şahin, Eda Erdem (c), Zehra Güneş, Aslı Kalaç, İlkin Aydın, Ebrar Karakurt

Head coach

Daniele Santarelli

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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	USA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	626	474	1.321	Qualified for the 2024 Olympics
2	POL (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	644	573	1.124
3	ITA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	572	480	1.192
4	THA	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	538	549	0.980
5	GER	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	624	621	1.005
6	SLO	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	510	574	0.889
7	COL	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	520	623	0.835
8	KOR	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	488	628	0.777

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
16 Sep	11:30	United States	3–0	COL	25–12	25–12	25–13			75–37	P2 Report
16 Sep	14:30	Germany	3–0	THA	25–22	25–22	25–20			75–64	P2 Report
16 Sep	17:30	Poland	3–0	SLO	25–18	25–15	25–22			75–55	P2 Report
16 Sep	20:45	Italy	3–0	KOR	25–11	25–20	25–17			75–48	P2 Report
17 Sep	11:30	Germany	3–1	COL	23–25	28–26	25–19	25–14		101–84	P2 Report
17 Sep	14:30	United States	3–0	THA	25–13	25–16	25–18			75–47	P2 Report
17 Sep	17:30	Poland	3–1	KOR	25–22	24–26	25–21	25–9		99–78	P2 Report
17 Sep	20:45	Italy	3–0	SLO	25–15	25–15	25–17			75–47	P2 Report
19 Sep	11:30	Germany	3–2	KOR	25–13	25–21	23–25	22–25	15–7	110–91	P2 Report
19 Sep	14:30	Italy	3–1	THA	25–19	21–25	25–22	25–18		96–84	P2 Report
19 Sep	17:30	Poland	3–0	COL	25–21	25–21	25–13			75–55	P2 Report
19 Sep	20:30	United States	3–1	SLO	25–13	25–13	20–25	25–13		95–64	P2 Report
20 Sep	11:30	Italy	3–0	COL	25–15	25–20	25–20			75–55	P2 Report
20 Sep	14:30	United States	3–1	KOR	20–25	25–17	25–19	25–17		95–78	P2 Report
20 Sep	17:30	Poland	2–3	THA	18–25	25–7	22–25	25–23	12–15	102–95	P2 Report
20 Sep	20:30	Germany	3–2	SLO	17–25	25–21	19–25	25–16	15–12	101–99	P2 Report
22 Sep	11:30	Colombia	3–2	KOR	25–12	14–25	20–25	25–20	15–9	99–91	P2 Report
22 Sep	14:30	Thailand	3–0	SLO	25–21	25–23	25–18			75–62	P2 Report
22 Sep	17:30	Poland	3–2	GER	20–25	27–25	25–21	22–25	15–12	109–108	P2 Report
22 Sep	20:45	Italy	1–3	USA	19–25	25–23	21–25	18–25		83–98	P2 Report
23 Sep	11:30	Colombia	2–3	SLO	17–25	25–19	26–24	18–25	11–15	97–108	P2 Report
23 Sep	14:30	Thailand	3–0	KOR	25–14	25–16	25–16			75–46	P2 Report
23 Sep	17:30	Poland	3–1	USA	27–25	16–25	25–23	25–16		93–89	P2 Report
23 Sep	20:45	Italy	3–0	GER	25–20	25–22	25–15			75–57	P2 Report
24 Sep	11:30	South Korea	0–3	SLO	13–25	20–25	23–25			56–75	P2 Report
24 Sep	14:30	Thailand	3–1	COL	25–19	20–25	25–23	28–26		98–93	P2 Report
24 Sep	17:30	United States	3–1	GER	24–26	25–21	25–9	25–16		99–72	P2 Report
24 Sep	20:30	Poland	3–1	ITA	15–25	26–24	25–23	25–21		91–93	P2 Report

Qualifying teams for the Summer Olympics

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics
TUR	23 September 2023	2 (2012, 2020)
SRB	23 September 2023	4 (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
DOM	24 September 2023	3 (2004, 2012, 2020)
BRA	24 September 2023	11 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
USA	24 September 2023	12 (1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
POL	24 September 2023	3 (1964, 1968, 2008)

See also

• 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments