FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is the process that a national women's volleyball team goes through to qualify for the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship finals.
Qualifying tournaments are held within the five FIVB continental zones, and are organized by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIVB decides beforehand the number of places in the finals allocated to each of the continental zones, based on the numbers or relative strength of the confederations' teams.
The most recent qualification process was the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification which commenced in 2014 and finished in 2017.
History
Summary
Graphical
- Gray=Africa
- Gold=Asia
- Blue=Europe
- Red=North America
- Green=South America
Participation
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Current format
Summary
Africa
- First round: The bottom ranked tean of Africa were divided into seven groups of seven zonal association, later six groups of six zonal association. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification and CAVB Championship.
- Second round : A total of 13 teams, later 9 teams were divided into two groups. The top two teams of each group advanced to the play-offs. The winners of play-offs will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
Asia and Oceania
- First round: The bottom ranked teams of Asia were divided into three groups of three zonal association. The group winners advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification.
- Second round: A total of 10 teams were divided into two groups of five teams. The top two teams of each group qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
Europe
- First round: The 8 bottom ranked teams of Asia were divided into two groups of small association. The group winners advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification. The first round will also act as the European Championship Small Countries Division qualification round.
- Second round: A total of 36 teams were divided into six groups of six teams. The winner team of each group qualified for the FIVB World Championship, whereas the runners-up in each pool will qualify for the third round.
- Third round: A total of 6 teams played in round robin format. The top two teams qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
North America
- First round: The bottom ranked teams of North America were divided into three, two, a group of three zonal association. The best two teams of each group advanced to the second round of FIVB World Championship qualification.
- Second round : A total of 10, 6 teams were divided into two groups of 5, 3 teams. The winners teams of two tournaments qualified for the 2018 FIVB World Championship.
- Third round :
South America
- First round : A total of 6 teams played in round robin format. The winners will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
- Second round: A total of 4 teams played in round robin format. The winners will qualified for the FIVB World Championship.
First appearance in qualification (1986-2018)
| Edition | Africa | Asia and Oceania | Europe | North, Central America and Caribbean | South America | Total |
 1998 | 49+H | |||||
 2002 | 14 | |||||
| 2006 | 25 | |||||
| 2010 | 28 | |||||
 2014 | 37 | |||||
| 2018 | 10 |
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