2018 FIVB World Championship - Japan

    Really?! That would be amazing! :dance6:I hope some players of the Dutch team will decide to keep playing a few years longer, so they can play the WCH in their own country.

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    Really?! That would be amazing! :dance6:I hope some players of the Dutch team will decide to keep playing a few years longer, so they can play the WCH in their own country.

    Yes, on behalf of FIVB president it was announced by FIVB General Director Fabio Azevedo. It was some kind of gift to Poland which celebrate 90 years of volleyball and right now there is some special event.

    With the Netherlands and Poland hosting in 2022, here is a quick breakdown of the 24 team editions of the Women's World Championships from 1998-2018.




    I think that it will breakdown the following way for number of teams in 2022.

    Africa 2

    Asia 5

    Europe 7+2 (hosts)

    NORCECA 6

    South America 2

    Six berths for Norceca is just too much :whistle:

    But I really dont think FIVB will change the distribution of the tickets.

    I think that they should keep it like in the previous editions when the number of places for each confederation was practically the same. It varied only because of the organizer and previous World Champion. So it should be like this:

    Africa 2

    Asia 4

    Europe 7 + 2 (hosts) + 1 (Serbia, don't you forget that Serbia as WCH 2018 is already qualified to WCH 2022 ;)

    NORCECA 6

    South America 2

    Europe actually has 3 spots at the moment, Serbia as the defending champion is directly in.

    So, if Europe gets 9 berths in total, it means they get to qualify 6 teams, just as many as NORCECA, and that is obviously ridiculous.


    Europe should have 10 spots and NORCECA 5. I'm not holding my breath on that, though.

    Norceca had the second most teams reach the second round with 4. For the FIVB, they can't really go more in Asia. Japan and China can hold their own, but below that it is a dropoff. Outside of Brazil, South America just cannot have 2 more teams. Africa barely holds water at 2 teams.


    9 or 10 for Europe is at most what they can do. That other slot would have to come from somewhere, but I do not think it will come from NORCECA. May Asia only gets 4.