Volleyball Men's World Championship 2018

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.

Qualification

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

Qualified teams

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