Starting from this staging, the World Championship will be expanded to include 32 teams, increasing from 24 teams.[1] The tournament will thus also be held biannually instead of quadrennially.[2]
Around 31 countries expressed interest to host the tournament.[3] This figure was reduced to a three final candidates; Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.[4]
The host country Philippines qualified for the competition as well as the defending champions Italy. The top three teams from each of the 2023 Continental Championships secured qualification. The final 15 places belonged to top 15 teams as per FIVB World Ranking who had not yet qualified.[8]
In the pool phase, the 32 teams will spread across eight pools of four teams playing in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each pool then advance to the direct elimination phase.
In the direct elimination phase, the 16 teams will be matched-up into knock-out stage: the winners will advance to the next stage, and the losers will be eliminated from the competition.
The 32 team will be distributed to eight pools of four teams. The draw of lots is scheduled to take place at Solaire Hotel in Metro Manila[specify] on 14 September 2024.[9][10] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 64th.
The host and the top seven teams are automatically seeded as the first teams of the eight pools.[10]
Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Both the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City and the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay were the first two confirmed locations for the championship. There are possibilities for the finals to be held at the Mall of Asia Arena due to its capacity and the technical reasons. Other host cities will be confirmed later.[11][12] The latter will be used for matches of the final round.[13]
Philippines
Italy
Japan
Iran
Qatar
Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
United States
Canada
Cuba
Egypt
Algeria
Poland
Slovenia
France
Libya
Germany
Serbia
Netherlands
Ukraine
Belgium
Turkey
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Portugal
Finland
Tunisia
China
Romania
Chile
South Korea
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