The qualification for the 2020 women's Olympic volleyball tournament allocated twelve teams quota spots: the host, the winners of each of six Intercontinental Qualifying Tournaments, and five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions.[1] Teams already qualified for the event were not eligible to play in the following qualification tournaments. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
For all qualification tournaments except North American qualification tournament
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.
For North American qualification tournament only
Number of matches won
Match points
Points ratio
Sets ratio
Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Match won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser
Host country[]
FIVB reserved a vacancy for the 2020 Olympic Games host country to participate in the tournament.
Twenty-four teams qualified for the competition as the top twenty-four teams of FIVB World Rankings on 1 January 2019 (except Japan who qualified as host.).[4][5]
Eight teams qualified for the competition as the top eight teams of CEV European Rankings on 1 October 2019 (except Serbia , Russia and Italy who qualified as Intercontinental Qualifier winners).
The champions and the top three teams from the 2019 NORCECA Championship which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics will compete in the North American Olympic Qualification Tournament.
The top four teams from the 2019 South American Championship which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Olympic Games will compete in the South American Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Buenos Aires
Japan
Wrocław
Serbia
Ningbo
Bossier City
Uberlândia
Kaliningrad
ROC
Catania
Yaoundé
Kenya
Bogotá
Nakhon Ratchasima
South Korea
Apeldoorn
Turkey
Santo Domingo
San Juan
Cajamarca
Germany
Bulgaria
Canada
Belgium
Mexico
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Czech Republic
Cuba
Egypt
Nigeria
Botswana
Hong Kong
India (Q)
Australia 
New Zealand
