The boys' beach volleyball tournament at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, took place between 17 and 27 August at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.
Thirty-Six pairs were competing, the host country China withdrew their pair. Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified. The remaining were Wild Cards.[1]
To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.[2]
| Event | Location | Date | Total Teams | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Nation | - | - | 0 | ||
| EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament[3] | 18–20 October 2013 | 1 | |||
| CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament[4] | 26–28 November 2013 | 1 | |||
| Central Zone Qualification Tournament[5] | 6–8 December 2013 | 1 | |||
| AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament[6] | 1–2 February 2014 | 1 | |||
| AVC Qualification Tournament[7] | 4–6 April 2014 | 6 | |||
| CAVB Qualification Tournament[8] | 11–13 April 2014 | 6 | |||
| NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament[9] | 12–13 April 2014 | 2 | |||
| 2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final[10] [11] | 15–17 May 2014 | 6 | |||
| CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings[12] | - | 19 May 2014 | 6 | ||
| Tripartite Invitation[13] | - | - | 3 | ||
| Reallocation | - | - | 3 | ||
| TOTAL | 36 |
Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw:
| width=20 | Rank | width=250 | Team | width=140 | NOC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||||
| 2 | Nate Moore – Kahurangi Robinson | ||||
| 3 | Arnaud Gauthier-Rat – Arnaud Loiseau | ||||
| 4 | Surin Jongklang – Banlue Nakprakhong | ||||
| 5 | Renato Bogarin – Elioth Frutos | ||||
| 6 | Dominik Kmiecik – Jakub Macura | ||||
| 7 | Elias Ndagano – Sylvestre Ndayisabye | ||||
| 8 | Anders Berntsen Mol – Mathias Berntsen | ||||
| 9 | Santiago Aulisi – Leo Aveiro | ||||
| 10 | Lumi Bramont – Jimy Heredia | ||||
| 11 | Niklas Rudolf – Eric Stadie | ||||
| 12 | Miro Määttänen – Santeri Siren | ||||
| 13 | Samiei Alhammadi – Ahid Alsahi | ||||
| 14 | Bryan Shavar – Rojey Hutchinson | ||||
| 15 | Sergio Luis Figueroa – Daniel Rivera | ||||
| 16 | Illia Kovalov – Oleh Plotnytskyi | ||||
| 17 | Bosco Ndayishimiye – Fiston Niyongabo | ||||
| 18 | Rendy Licardo – Mohammad Ashfiya | ||||
| 19 | Louis Richard – Torey DeFalco | ||||
| 20 | Oleg Stoyanovskiy – Artem Yarzutkin | ||||
| 21 | |||||
| 22 | Mohammadreza Shobeiri – Keyvan Sahneh | ||||
| 23 | Arthur Lanci – George Wanderley | ||||
| 24 | Mauricio Vieyto – Marco Cairus | ||||
| 25 | Delshun Welcome – Rodall Fraser | ||||
| 26 | Edvinas Vaškelis – Matas Navickas | ||||
| 27 | Carlos Rosa – Ajai Sweeney | ||||
| 28 | Andrew Richards – Jake MacNeil | ||||
| 29 | Erik Flores – Mark Álvarez | ||||
| 30 | Tigrito Gómez – Rolando Hernández | ||||
| 31 | Johannes Kratz – Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg | ||||
| 32 | |||||
| 33 | Aloisio De Souza – Alex Quaresma Marques | ||||
| 34 | Philip Amissah – Nicholas Tetteh | ||||
| 35 | Moussa Botouli Ilombola – Johfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo | ||||
| 36 | Yegor Dmitriyev – Sergey Polichshuk |
The competition formula consist of two rounds, the first a pool round where the 36 teams have been divided into six pools of six, each pool will play round robin. After the pool round is completed, the best team from each pool plus the two best second place teams will advance to the eight-finals; the rest of the second place teams plus the third and fourth place teams from each pool will advance to the Round of 24. The Round of 24 is a single elimination round, the winning teams will play against the eight-finalists in another single elimination round; next the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches.[15]
On August 17, it was announced that two pools will only consist of five teams due to two pairings being restricted from competition due to an Ebola outbreak in their countries. The results of the matches against these two teams will be a direct forfeit.[14]