2023 Men's European Volleyball Championship qualification explained

This article describes the qualification for the 2023 Men's European Volleyball Championship.^{[1] [2]}

Qualification

Italy, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Israel as host countries were directly qualified. The eight best placed teams at the 2021 edition also gained direct entries into the tournament. 24 teams compete for the remaining 12 places at the final tournament.

Means of qualification	Qualifier	Means of qualification		Qualifier
Host Countries		Qualification	Pool A
			Pool B
			Pool C
			Pool D
2021 European Championship			Pool E
			Pool F
			Pool G
			Best runners-up
Reallocation
Total 24

Direct qualification

All of the hosted countries' teams directly qualified for the tournament. Then, the top eight teams from previous edition also automatically qualified.

• 2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship final standing

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc		Qualified for the 2023 European Championship
width=10px bgcolor=#87ceeb		Qualified as hosts for the 2023 European Championship

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Format

There being seven pools of either three or four teams each, the winners of each pool and the 5 best runners-up qualified for the 2023 European Championship. The pools were played in a double round-robin tournaments format officially from 3 to 21 August 2022, according to the CEV web site. Since there was a different number of teams across the seven pools, the results of the matches played with the teams finishing last in the pools of four were discarded in order to determine the five best runners-up across all pools.

Pools composition

The pools were set following the Serpentine system according to their European Ranking for national teams as of January 2022. Rankings are shown in brackets.^[4]

width=180	Pool A	width=165	Pool B	width=210	Pool C	width=175	Pool D	width=165	Pool E	width=165	Pool F	width=320	Pool G
(9)	(12)	(13)	(14)	(15)	(18)	(19)
(28)	(26)	(25)	(24)	(22)	(21)	(20)
(29)	(30)	(31)	(32)	(33)	(34)	(35)
		(43)	(39)	(38)	(37)	(36)

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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

Results

• The winners in each pool and the top five of the second ranked teams qualified for the 2023 European Championship.

Ranking of the second placed teams

• Matches against the fourth placed team in each pool were not included in this ranking.
• The top five of the second placed teams qualified for the 2023 European Championship.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Qualifiers Area | EuroVolley .
2. Book: CEV EuroVolley 2023 Official Communications No. 1. CEV. 4 November 2021.
3. Web site: FIVB declares Russia and Belarus not eligible for international and continental competitions . 1 March 2022 . . 11 August 2022.
4. Web site: Rankings; CEV .