The qualification for the 2020 women's Olympic volleyball tournament allocated twelve teams quota spots: the host, the winners of each of six Intercontinental Qualifying Tournaments, and five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions. Teams already qualified for the event were not eligible to play in the following qualification tournaments.
Qualification summary
Timeline
Pool standing procedure
For all qualification tournaments except North American qualification tournament
Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
For North American qualification tournament only
Number of matches won
Match points
Points ratio
Sets ratio
Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Match won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser
Host country
FIVB reserved a vacancy for the 2020 Olympic Games host country to participate in the tournament.
Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournaments
The winners in each pool will qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Qualification round
Twenty-four teams qualified for the competition as the top twenty-four teams of FIVB World Rankings on 1 January 2019 (except Japan who qualified as host.).
Qualified teams
Final round
Means of qualification
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Continental Olympic Qualification Tournaments
Africa
Of the 5 entered teams, only winner of this round was qualified to the 2020 Olympics.
Means of qualification
Round robin
Asia and Oceania
The winners in final round will qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Qualified teams
Of the 61 AVC and IOC member associations, a total of 13 AVC member national teams entered the qualifying stage
Qualification round
Final round
Notes
Teams in bold qualified for the next phase and final tournament. (H): Qualification group hosts
Qualification round
Of the 13 qualified teams, top eight teams (excluding Japan, and 2019 IOQT pool B winners China) will be qualified to the next round.
Means of qualification
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool G
Pool H
9th–12th Classification round
Final round
Of the 8 qualified teams, only winner of this round will be qualified to the 2020 Olympics.
Means of qualification
Pool A
Pool B
Final four
Europe
The winners in final round will qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Qualification round
Eight teams qualified for the competition as the top eight teams of CEV European Rankings on 1 October 2019 (except Serbia , Russia and Italy who qualified as Intercontinental Qualifier winners).
Final round
Of the 8 qualified teams, only winner of this round will be qualified to the 2020 Olympics.
Means of qualification
Pool A
Pool B
Final four
North America
The winners in final round will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics.