Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be the 16th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It will be held in Paris, France from 27 July to 10 August 2024.^[1] This is the first time in the history of the Olympic volleyball competition, each team participating in the Games will be entitled to include one non-competing (AP) athlete to replace an athlete for medical reasons. As such, team rosters will increase from 12 to 13 athletes.^[2]

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	South Paris Arena
Date	27 July – 10 August 2024
Competitors	from 12 nations
← 2020 2028 →

Competition schedule

P

Preliminary round

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Final

Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Mon 4	Tue 5	Wed 6	Thu 7	Fri 8	Sat 9	Fri 10
P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P		¼		½		B	F

Qualification

Main article: Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Qualification		Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified team
Host nation		—		1	France
FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments	Pool A	16–24 September 2023	Ningbo	2	Dominican Republic
					Serbia
	Pool B		Tokyo	2	Turkey
					Brazil
	Pool C		Łódź	2	United States
					Poland
World Ranking qualification pathway		17 June 2024	—	5
Total				12

Format

In a change of format compared to the previous 9 editions of the Olympic Games, this tournament will feature 3 groups with 4 teams each during the preliminary round (between 1972 Summer Olympics to 2020 Summer Olympics the teams were placed in two groups). At this round, the teams will compete in a single round-robin format. The two highest ranked teams in each pool and the best two third-placed teams advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals).

The knockout stage will follow the single-elimination format. The match-ups will determine by teams combined ranking system, #1 vs #8 (QF1), #2 vs #7 (QF2), #3 vs #6 (QF3), #4 vs #5 (QF4). The winners will advance to quarterfinals, QF1 vs QF4, QF3 vs QF2. The losers will compete for bronze medals and the winners will compete for gold medals ^[3]

Pools composition

The twelve qualified teams will be seeded according to their position in the FIVB World Ranking as of 17 June 2024. As the host team, France is seeded 1st and will be placed in the top position of Pool A. The two top ranked teams seeded 2nd and 3rd will be placed at the top of Pools B and C respectively. The remaining nine teams will be distributed across three bowls of three teams each based on their position in the World Ranking and drawn for their seed line by line applying the serpentine system.^[2]

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
France (Hosts)

Pool standing procedure and teams combined ranking system

Pool standing procedure
In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:^[4]

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Teams combined ranking system
In order to determine teams playing in quarterfinals and their match-ups:^[2]

1. Pool Position
2. Number of matches won
3. Match points
4. Sets ratio
5. Points ratio
6. Head-to-head
7. World ranking

Preliminary round

• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR

Source:^{[citation needed]}

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Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR

Source:^{[citation needed]}

		v

		v

		v

		v

		v

		v

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR

Source:^{[citation needed]}

		v

		v

		v

		v

		v

		v

Knockout stage

• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
									Bronze medal match

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

		v

		v

Bronze medal match

		v

Gold medal match

		v

See also

• Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

References

1. "Paris Olympic Schedule". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
2. "2024 In Focus: Excitement Builds For Olympic Games Paris 2024". Retrieved 10 January 2024.
3. "NEW VOLLEYBALL FORMAT FOR PARIS 2024". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
4. "Pools Ranking Criteria". FIVB. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

External links

• Official website