| Sport: | Volleyball |
| Date: | 09 Sep, 2018 - 30 Sep, 2018 |
| Venue: | Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
| Link: | http://www.fivb.com |
For the first time ever, Italy and Bulgaria will have the honour of jointly hosting the FIVB’s premier volleyball event – the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship, which will take place from September 9 to 30, 2018 with matches being held in Italian cities Florence, Milan, Rome, Bari, and Bologna, and Bulgarian cities Ruse, Sofia and Varna, while the finals will be held in Turin, Italy. The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship will be the 19th edition of the International Volleyball Federation’s signature event for men’s national teams. It will come after the record-breaking FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship Poland 2014, which saw over half a million fans attend the 103 matches in the competition.
The qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the five FIVB confederations to decide 21 of the 24 teams which would play in the final tournament, with Italy and Bulgaria qualifying automatically as hosts and Poland also qualifying automatically as the defending champions. All remaining FIVB member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process.At first, 150 associations registered teams to compete in the qualification process, but 19 associations withdrew from the qualifying process after they registered and India were suspended and then expelled from taking part in the process as a punishment for internal problem in the India Volleyball Federation
| Country | Confederation | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | First | Last | ||||
 Poland |
CEV | Defending Champions | 21 September 2014 | 16 | 1949 | 2014 |
 Italy |
CEV | Host Country | 9 December 2015 | 16 | 1949 | 2014 |
 Bulgaria |
CEV | Host Country | 9 December 2015 | 17 | 1949 | 2014 |
 Serbia |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool E Winners | 27 May 2017 | 9 | 1956 | 2014 |
 Netherlands |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool B Winners | 28 May 2017 | 11 | 1949 | 2002 |
 Slovenia |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool C Winners | 28 May 2017 | 0 | – | – |
 Finland |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool F Winners | 28 May 2017 | 7 | 1952 | 2014 |
 Russia |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool D Winners | 28 May 2017 | 18 | 1949 | 2014 |
 France |
CEV | CEV Second Round Pool A Winners | 28 May 2017 | 15 | 1949 | 2014 |
 Japan |
AVC | AVC Final Round Pool B Winners | 15 July 2017 | 14 | 1960 | 2010 |
 Australia |
AVC | AVC Final Round Pool B Runners-up | 16 July 2017 | 6 | 1982 | 2014 |
 Belgium |
CEV | CEV Third Round Pool G Winners | 23 July 2017 | 8 | 1949 | 2014 |
 Brazil |
CSV | CSV Championship Winners | 11 August 2017 | 16 | 1956 | 2014 |
 China |
AVC | AVC Final Round Pool A Runners-up | 13 August 2017 | 13 | 1956 | 2014 |
 Iran |
AVC | AVC Final Round Pool A Winners | 13 August 2017 | 5 | 1970 | 2014 |
 Argentina |
CSV | CSV Qualifier Winners | 2 September 2017 | 11 | 1960 | 2014 |
 Dominican |
NORCECA | NORCECA Championship Runners-up | 30 September 2017 | 1 | 1974 | 1974 |
 U.S |
NORCECA | NORCECA Championship Winners | 30 September 2017 | 15 | 1956 | 2014 |
 Canada |
NORCECA | NORCECA Championship 3rd place | 1 October 2017 | 10 | 1974 | 2014 |
 Tunisia |
CAVB | CAVB Championship Winners | 27 October 2017 | 9 | 1962 | 2014 |
 Egypt |
CAVB | CAVB Championship Runners-up | 27 October 2017 | 8 | 1974 | 2014 |
 Cameroon |
CAVB | CAVB Championship 3rd place | 29 October 2017 | 3 | 1990 | 2014 |
 Puerto Rico |
NORCECA | NORCECA Final Four Winners | 12 November 2017 | 4 | 1974 | 2014 |
 Cuba |
NORCECA | NORCECA Final Four Runners-up | 12 November 2017 | 14 | 1956 | 2014 |
