FIVB Senior Continental Rankings

The FIVB Senior Continental Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. Divided to five continental confederations, the teams of the member nations of FIVB, volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIVB-recognised full international matches. The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula, but the method usually employed is the serpentine system.

Calculation method

In 2019, FIVB collaborated with Hypercube Business Innovation of the Netherlands to design a new world ranking platform. The previous calculation method have a problem of circularity in the international volleyball calendar: only countries who participate in the major volleyball events can earn ranking points, whilst the number of ranking points of countries also determines seeding and access of teams for major events. This unfair principle does not contribute to the sporting and commercial quality of volleyball.[1]

On 1 February 2020, the new ranking system will be implemented and will take into account all results from 1 January 2019.[2] The system will be consistently updated to reflect the latest results and performances. The new World Ranking considers the match results between teams in the same continental confederations from all official competitions:

TournamentCategoryOrganizerNote
Olympic Games finalsIntercontinental FIVB45only matches between teams in same confederations
Intercontinental Olympic QualifyingIntercontinental 25only matches between teams in same confederations
Continental Olympic QualifyingAsiaContinental 25co-sanctioned with AVC
Africaco-sanctioned with CAVB
Europeco-sanctioned with CEV
S Americaco-sanctioned with CSV
N Americaco-sanctioned with NORCECA
World Championship finalsIntercontinental FIVB45only matches between teams in same confederations
World Championship Qualifying 22.5only matches between teams in same confederations
Nations LeagueIntercontinental FIVB40only matches between teams in same confederations
Challenger Cup 20only matches between teams in same confederations
World CupIntercontinental FIVB35only matches between teams in same confederations
African Championship finalsContinental CAVB35
African Zonal ChampionshipNorth 17.5
West A
West B
Central
East
South A
South B
Asian Championship finalsContinental AVC35
Asian Championship Qualifying 17.5
Asian CupContinental AVC10
Asian Challenge Cup 10
Asian Zonal ChampionshipWestContinental AVC10
Central
East
ASEAN
Oceania
EuroVolley finalsContinental CEV35
EuroVolley Qualifying 17.5
European LeagueContinental CEV10
NORCECA Championship finalsContinental NORCECA35
NORCECA Zonal ChampionshipN Central 17.5
Central
E Caribbean
Caribbean
NORCECA Champions CupContinental NORCECA10
Pan-American Volleyball CupContinental NORCECA10co-sanctioned with CSV
South American ChampionshipContinental CSV35

AVC Continental Rankings

CAVB Continental Rankings

CEV Continental Rankings

CSV Continental Rankings

NORCECA Continental Rankings

References

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