| Competition: | FIVB World Championship |
| Gender: | Men |
| Continent: | World |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Size: | 140px |
| Dates: | 17 November – 3 December |
| Opened: | Akihito |
| Teams: | 24 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Venues: | 7 |
| Cities: | 6 |
| Champions: | BRA |
| Title Number: | 2 |
| Second: | POL |
| Third: | BUL |
| Fourth: | SCG |
| Mvp: |  Gilberto Godoy Filho |
| Matches: | 104 |
| Attendance: | 298352 |
| Website: | FIVB |
| Last: | 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship |
| Next: | 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship |
The 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was held in Japan from 17 November to 3 December 2006. Like the previous edition, 24 teams participated in the tournament. Brazil won the Tournament (retaining their championship title), defeating Poland 3:0 in the final match. Bulgaria placed 3rd, defeating Serbia and Montenegro 3:1 in the 3rd place match. The Polish team dedicated this achievement to the deceased Polish volleyball player Arkadiusz Gołaś. The team honored him at the award ceremony, when they wore T-shirts with the number 16 and the words "Golas".
Finals hosts Japan. The tournament was held in six Japan cities.
| SaitamaFile:Fukuoka Tower and Muromigawa River.jpg | FukuokaFile:In front of Nagano Station Zenkoji side2.jpg | NaganoFile:The miyagi museum of art01s3872.jpg | SendaiFile:Shibaura img01.jpg | TokyoFile:Hiroshima Shukkei-en Pond.jpg | Hiroshima |
See main article: 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification.
| Africa (CAVB) | Asia and Oceania (AVC) | Europe (CEV) | North America (NORCECA) | South America (CSV) | |
| Pool C Winners
| Host Country: Pool D Winners: Pool E Winners: Pool F Winners: Playoff Winners: Playoff Runners-up: | Pool I Winners
| Pool D Winners
| Defending Champions
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Teams were seeded in the first three positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 September 2005. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. The draw was held in Tokyo, Japan on 29 November 2005. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 16th.
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| (18) | (12) | (16) | (13) | ||||
| (21) | (20) | (22) | (19) | ||||
| (27) | (24) | (23) | (26) |
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See main article: 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads.
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D and E |
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| Saitama, Japan | Fukuoka, Japan | Nagano, Japan | Sendai, Japan | ||||
| Saitama Super Arena | Marine Messe Fukuoka | White Ring | Sendai Gymnasium | ||||
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 8,500 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 5,705 | ||||
| Pool F | Final round | ||||||
| Hiroshima, Japan | Tokyo, Japan | ||||||
| Hiroshima Green Arena | Yoyogi National Gymnasium | Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium | |||||
| Capacity: 4,750 | Capacity: 13,291 | Capacity: 10,000 | |||||
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| 12–man Roster | |
| Marcelo Elgarten, André Heller, Giba, Murilo Endres, André Nascimento, Sérgio Santos, Anderson Rodrigues, Samuel Fuchs, Gustavo Endres, Rodrigão, Ricardo Garcia (c), Dante Amaral | |
| Head coach | |
| Bernardo Rezende |
The competition's official opening song was "Ready Go!" by Morning Musume .
