The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship will be the 21st edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 21 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament will be held in Italy and Bulgaria from 22 September to 3 October 2021.[1] For the first time, the tournament will be jointly-hosted by more than one country.
Iran is the defending champions, having won their first title in Bahrain.
Players must be born on or after 1 January 2001.
Qualification
A total of 16 teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Italy and Bulgaria who qualified automatically as hosts, another 10 teams will qualify via five separate continental tournaments while the remaining 4 teams will qualify via the FIVB U21 World Ranking.[2]
1.^ On 4 December 2020, the AVC announced that the 2020 Asian Championship which was originally the AVC qualifier for the tournament was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic, and the top two teams of the 2018 Asian Championship qualified for the tournament as the AVC representatives.[3]
2.^ On 30 November 2020, the NORCECA announced that the 2020 NORCECA Championship which was originally the NORCECA qualifier for the tournament was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic, and the top two teams of the NORCECA Ranking as of January 2020[4] qualified for the tournament as the NORCECA representatives.[5]
3.^ With European runners-up Italy hosting the tournament together with Bulgaria, European 3rd place Belgium joined the field for the tournament as well.[6]
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Pool standing procedure
Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
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