Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games explained

Event:	Volleyball
Games:	2021 Summer
Venue:	various
Dates:	29 July–7 August 2023
Teams:	16 (men) & 12 (women)
Prev:	2019
Next:	2025

Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu was played between July 29 and August 7, 2023. 28 volleyball teams will participate in the tournament. ^[1]

Qualification

Following the FISU regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in 2 volleyball events where the number of entries is larger than the authorised participation level will be selected by ^[2]

• The entry and the payment of guarantee.
• Those 8 (in men's tournament) or 5 (in women's tournament) teams finishing top rankings of the previous edition will be automatically qualified.If any country gives up, the next in line is called up.
• Those 4 teams finishing bottom rankings of the previous edition will be replaced by new applying teams.If they are among the 4 relegated in the previous edition, the fifth worst team is the one that is eliminated.This rule did not need to be applied in this edition due to the high number of withdrawals from the tournament.
• The host country is always automatically qualified.
• The remaining teams could will be selected by wild card system according to geographical, continental representation, FISU ranking and FIVB rankings.

Qualified teams

Men's competition

width=25%	Means of qualification	width=27%	Date!	width=20%	Venue!	width=6%	Vacancies!	width=22%	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1
Top eight of previous edition	5–13 July 2019	Naples	8
Continental Quotas	—	—	2
Wild Card	—	—	1
Invitation	—	—	5
Total			16

Women's competition

width=25%	Means of qualification	width=27%	Date!	width=20%	Venue!	width=6%	Vacancies!	width=22%	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1
Top five of previous edition	5–13 July 2019	Naples	5
Continental Quotas	—	—	2
Invitations or Late commits	—	—	4
Total			12

Draw

Men's competition

See main article: Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games – Men's tournament.

Women's competition

See main article: Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games – Women's tournament.

Medal events

Men	Paolo Porro Tim Held Alberto Pol Francesco Recine (c) Davide Gardini Lorenzo Cortesia Nicola Salsi Damiano Catania Marco Vitelli Edoardo Caneschi Giulio Magalini Lorenzo Sala	Jakub Czyżowski Łukasz Kozub (c) Kewin Sasak Michał Gierżot Damian Kogut Mariusz Magnuszewski Jakub Abramowicz Dawid Woch Maciej Krysiak Dawid Dulski Kamil Szymura Mateusz Poręba	Chen Leiyang Wang Hebin Zhang Jingyin (c) Yu Yuantai Wang Bin Deng Xinpeng Peng Shikun Li Yongzhen Wang Dongchen Zhang Guanhua Yang Yiming Hu Zhenzhuo
Women	Zhang Shiqi Ma Wanyue Xie Shengyu Xu Jianan Wu Mengjie Gao Yi Zhong Hui Xu Xiaoting Zhuang Yushan (c) Wang Wenhan Zhou Yetong Miao Yiwen	Sayaka Yokota (c) Sae Nakajima Saki Ishikura Angelina Kobayashi Kurumi Takama Hiroyo Yamanaka Haruna Kawabata Tsukasa Nakagawa Yoshino Sato Haruka Oyama Furi Kosa Ameze Miyabe	Kornelia Moskwa Marta Orzyłowska Małgorzata Lisiak Aleksandra Rasińska Pola Nowakowska Julita Piasecka Kinga Drabek Karolina Drużkowska Marta Łyczakowska Justyna Łysiak Alicja Grabka (c) Weronika Szlagowska

Notes and References

1. Web site: Volleyball. chengdu2021.com. 3 August 2023.
2. Web site: REGULATIONS–Volleyball. FISU.