The winner won the right to participate in the 2022 Nations League replacing Bulgaria, the last placed challenger team after the 2019 edition and the title holder.
^a No team from African Volleyball Confederation participated in qualification process. So, the team from South American Volleyball Confederation automatically qualified for the tournament.
Teams will be seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 21 October 2018.[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 27th.
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