FIVB Senior World Ranking system (until 2020)

The FIVB world ranking system (until 2020) is a calculation technique previously used by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for ranking men's and women's national teams in football. The ranking system was introduced by FIVB until 31 January 2020 as using for seeding teams participating 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan before an update to an earlier system, and was replaced during the 2020 FIVB Volleyball Nations League with a revised Elo-based system.

The system is still used in FIVB World Junior and Youth Rankings.

Calculation method

The system of point attribution for the selected FIVB World and Official Competitions below is as follows:^[1]

Olympic Games final and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams.
World Championship final and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams.
World Cup: included for 4 years
World Grand Prix: included for 1 year
World League: included for 1 year

Points for final qualifiers

Place	OG	WMCH	WWCH	WC	WL	WGP
1	100	100	100	100	50	50
2	90	90	90	90	45	45
3	80	80	80	80	42	42
4	70	70	70	70	40	40
5	62	62	58	50	38	38
6	56	56		40
7	50	50	50	30	34	32
8	44			25	32	30
9	38	45	45	20	30	28
10	32			15	28	26
11	26	40	40	10	26	24
12	20			5	24	22
13		36	36		22	20
14					20	18
15		33	33		19	17
16					18	16
17		30	30		17	15
18					16	14
19					15	13
20					14	12
21		25	25		13	10
22					12	8
23					11	7
24					10	6
25					9	5
26					8	4
27					7	3
28					6	2
29					5
30
31					4
32
33					3
34
35					2
36					1

Points for teams eliminated

Men's World Championship

Place	AF	AS	EU	NO	SA
Q	0	0	0	0	0
PO-3				15
PO-4				14
R3-2			18		10
R3-3		14	15		9
R3-4	10	12	10
R3-5	9	10	9
R3-6	8		9	10
R3-7	7			10
R3-8	6
R3-9	6
R3-10	6
R3-11	6
R3-12	6
R3-13	6
R3-14	6
R2-2		7
R2-3		7	8
R2-4			8
R2-5			7		8
R2-6			7		7
R2-7					6
CA-3				8
CA-4				8
CA-5				7
CA-6				7
CA-7				6
CA-8				6
EC-2				8
EC-3				7
EC-4				6
R1-2	5
R1-3	5		6	5
R1-4	5		5	5
R1-5				5
R1-6				5
R1-7				5

Women's World Championship

Place	AF	AS	EU	NO	SA
Q	0	0	0	0	0
R3-2					10
R3-3	10	14	18	10	9
R3-4	9	12	15	10
R3-5	8	10	10
R3-6	7		9
R3-7	6
R3-8	6
R3-9	6
R2-2		7
R2-3		7	8
R2-4			8
R2-5			7		7
R2-6			7		6
CA-3				8
CA-4				8
CA-5				7
CA-6				7
CA-7				6
CA-8				6
EC-2				8
EC-3				7
EC-4				6
R1-2	5
R1-3	5		6	5
R1-4	5		5	5
R1-5				5
R1-6				5
R1-7				5

Olympic Games

Place	IOQT	COQT
Q	0	0
1	10	10
2	8	8
3	8	8
4		5
5		5
4		5
6		5
7		5
8		5

Examples

These are example how world ranking works.

Team	Round	OG 2016		WGP 2017		WCH 2018		WC 2019		Total
Team	Round	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Total
China	Final	1	100	4	40	3	80	1	100	320
	Qualification	Q	0			Q	0			0
	Total	1	100	4	40	3	80	1	100	320
Team	Round	OG 2016		WGP 2017		WCH 2018		WC 2019		Total
Team	Round	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Total
Thailand	Final	DNQ	0	10	26	13	36	DNQ	0	62
	Qualification	WQ-1	3			Q	0			3
	Total	WQ-1	3	10	26	13	36	DNQ	0	65

Notes and references

^ "FIVB World Ranking system". FIVB. Retrieved 21 December 2019.

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). "FIVB World Rankings". Retrieved 2011-05-30.

[FIVBPR-1] "FIVB World Ranking system". FIVB. Retrieved 21 December 2019.

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