FIVB World Rankings

The FIVB World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with points being awarded based on the importance of each FIVB International competitions and Continental competitions also. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance, with more recent results and more significant competitions being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team.

The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World League (for men) and 2006 Grand Prix (for women).

The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula, but the method usually employed is the serpentine system.

Senior World Rankings

Men

Top 30 Rankings as of January 4, 2012
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		Brazil	252.50
2		Russia	234.50
3		Italy	191.00
4		Poland	182.00
5	1	Cuba	160.25
6	1	United States	148.00
7		Serbia	136.25
8		Argentina	121.75
9		Bulgaria	88.75
10		China	57.25
11		Egypt	55.00
12	1	Iran	50.25
13	1	Germany	46.50
14		Cameroon	45.25
15	1	Japan	41.00
16	1	Venezuela	40.75
17		Puerto Rico	38.50
18	1	Canada	37.25
		Tunisia
20		South Korea	36.50
21	3	France	35.75
22		Australia	33.50
23		Mexico	33.00
		Czech Republic
25	1	Algeria	29.50
26		Slovakia	25.25
27		Finland	24.75
	2	Colombia
29	4	Spain	24.25
30		India	19.75

Women

Top 30 Rankings as of January 4, 2012
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		United States	247.00
2		Brazil	217.50
3		Japan	197.25
4		Italy	190.75
5		China	169.00
6		Serbia	145.00
7	1	Russia	131.25
8	1	Germany	108.25
9	2	Dominican Republic	72.75
10	1	Cuba	69.00
11		Turkey	64.25
12	1	Thailand	62.00
13		South Korea	56.25
14	2	Poland	55.75
15		Kenya	50.75
16		Algeria	47.25
17		Peru	42.50
18		Argentina	40.00
19		Puerto Rico	33.50
20	1	Netherlands	30.25
21	2	Egypt	28.00
22		Canada	25.75
23	2	Kazakhstan	23.75
		Czech Republic
25	1	Senegal	23.50
26	2	Colombia	22.50
27	2	Mexico	20.25
28	1	Costa Rica	20.00
	1	Chinese Taipei	20.00
30		Cameroon	19.00

^{^[a]} Change from previous ranking, December 5, 2011 for men and November 18, 2011 for women.

Junior and Youth World Rankings

Boys

Boys' Volleyball Top 30 Rankings as of August 29 2011
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1	4	Serbia	252
2	1	Argentina	246
3		Russia	190
4		Cuba	178
5	6	Spain	158
6		Brazil	141
	3	United States
8	4	Iran	136
9	6	Bulgaria	102
10	5	France	99
11	1	China	74
12	4	Tunisia	71
13	6	India	70
14	4	Egypt	65
15	2	Japan	54
16	21	Greece	51
17	3	Puerto Rico	50
18	1	Canada	46
19	4	Venezuela	44
		Morocco
		South Korea
22	1	Belgium	35
23	13	Germany	33
24	2	Chile	32
		Colombia
26		Mexico	28
		South Africa
28	1	Dominican Republic	24
29		Chinese Taipei	20
30		Guatemala	19
		Netherlands

Girls

Girls' Volleyball Top 30 Rankings as of January 4 2012
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		China	211
2		Brazil	185
2		United States	170
4		Italy	156
5		Turkey	137
6		Serbia	123
7	1	Japan	111
8	1	Poland	110.5
9	1	Peru	107.5
10		Dominican Republic	91
11		Germany	87
12	2	Slovakia	75
13	1	Belgium	72
14	1	Argentina	63
15	2	Egypt	60.5
16		Mexico	45
17	3	Thailand	39
18		Algeria	38
19	2	South Korea	36
	1	Tunisia
21		Puerto Rico	32
22	5	Russia	23.5
23	1	Colombia	23
	2	Chile
25	3	Cuba	21
		Chinese Taipei
	3	Venezuela
28	2	Costa Rica	16.5
29	0	Kazakhstan	15
30	2	Czech Republic	14

Points Given by Tournament Finish

World Tournaments

FIVB Tournaments
Finish	World Championship	Olympic Games	World Cup	World League (Men) World Grand Prix (Women)	Continental Championship
1st	100	100	100	50	30
2nd	90	90	90	45	26
3rd	80	80	80	40	22
4th	70	70	70	35	18
5th	62	45	50	30	14
6th	56		40	25	10
7th	50		30	15	5
8th	45		25	12
9th	40	15	5	10	3
10th	36			8
11th	33	5		7
12th	30			6
13th	25			4	2
14th				3
15th				2
16th				1
17th-24th	20

FIVB Tournaments' Qualifying Rounds

World Championship Qualifying Tournament
Finish	Points
Playoffs	10-15
Third Round	12
Second Round	8-11
First Round	5-8

Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Finish	Points
Continental/World 1st	3
Continental/World 2nd	2
Continental/World 3rd	1
World 4th-5th	1

Continental Qualifying Tournament (NORCECA and Europe only)
Finish	Points
Preliminary Round	1

The points obtained by a team in the World Championship, World Cup, Olympic Games and their qualifying tournaments will be reduced 50% after two years the tournament was played.

The points obtained by a team in the Continetal Championship will be reduced 50% one year after the tournament was played.

References

• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). "FIVB World Rankings". http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/Rankings.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-30.