FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in beach volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, beach volleyball and volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.

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.

Rankings

Men

Top 30 Rankings as of May 2, 2016.
Rank	Pair	Points
1	Alison Cerutti & Bruno Oscar Schmidt	4,700
2	Jake Gibb & Casey Patterson	3,320
3	Nicholas Lucena & Phil Dalhausser	3,220
4	Pedro Solberg Salgado & Evandro Oliveira Júnior	3,170
5	Reinder Nummerdor & Christiaan Varenhorst	3,160
6	Alexander Brouwer & Robert Meeuwsen	3,090
7	Clemens Doppler & Alexander Horst	2,920
8	Nicholas Lucena & Theo Brunner	2,850
9	Ben Saxton & Chaim Schalk	2,840
10	Pablo Herrera & Adrián Gavira	2,780
11	John Hyden & Tri Bourne	2,770
12	Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Jānis Šmēdiņš	2,740
13	Alex Ranghieri & Adrian Carambula	2,730
14	Grzegorz Fijałek & Mariusz Prudel	2,680
14	Bartosz Łosiak & Piotr Kantor	2,680
16	Paolo Nicolai & Daniele Lupo	2,660
17	Juan Virgen & Lombardo Ontiveros	2,630
18	Konstantin Semenov & Viacheslav Krasilnikov	2,620
19	Jonathan Erdmann & Kay Matysik	2,590
20	Markus Böckermann & Lars Flüggen	2,580
21	Josh Binstock & Sam Schachter	2,480
22	Álvaro Morais Filho & Vitor Felipe	2,390
23	Esteban Grimalt & Marco Grimalt	2,330
23	Phil Dalhausser & Sean Rosenthal	2,330
25	Youssef Krou & Édouard Rowlandson	2,310
26	Isaac Kapa & Christopher McHugh	2,292
27	Ricardo Santos & Álvaro Morais Filho	2,285
27	Mārtiņš Pļaviņš & Jānis Šmēdiņš	2,285
27	Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Mārtiņš Pļaviņš	2,285
30	Alex Ranghieri & Marco Caminati	2,231

Women

Top 30 Rankings as of May 2, 2016.
Rank	Pair	Points
1	Bárbara Seixas & Ágatha Bednarczuk	3,960
2	Larissa França & Talita Antunes	3,900
3	April Ross & Kerri Walsh Jennings	3,600
4	Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst	3,400
5	Taiana Lima & Fernanda Alves	3,325
6	Heather Bansley & Sarah Pavan	3,320
7	Juliana Silva & Taiana Lima	3,300
8	Madelein Meppelink & Marleen van Iersel	3,190
9	Maria Antonelli & Juliana Silva	3,125
10	Louise Bawden & Taliqua Clancy	2,980
11	Karla Borger & Britta Büthe	2,920
12	Kinga Kołosińska & Monika Brzostek	2,880
13	April Ross & Jennifer Fopma	2,790
14	Lauren Fendrick & Brooke Sweat	2,730
15	Isabelle Forrer & Anouk Vergé-Dépré	2,630
16	Laura Ludwig & Victoria Bieneck	2,544
17	Eduarda Lisboa & Elize Maia	2,515
18	Maria Antonelli & Liliane Maestrini	2,490
18	Marta Menegatti & Viktoria Orsi Toth	2,490
20	Jamie Broder & Kristina Valjas	2,460
21	Nadine Zumkehr & Joana Heidrich	2,340
22	Ana Gallay & Georgina Klug	2,330
23	Liliana Fernández & Elsa Baquerizo	2,300
24	Miller Pata & Linline Matauatu	2,280
25	Whitney Pavlik & April Ross	2,213
26	Katrin Holtwick & Ilka Semmler	2,190
27	Emily Day & Jennifer Kessy	2,180
28	Chantal Laboureur & Julia Sude	2,120
29	Mariafe Artacho & Nicole Laird	2,090
30	Maria Clara Salgado & Carolina Solberg Salgado	2,040
30	Melissa Humana-Paredes & Taylor Pischke	2,040

See also

• Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification for the rankings going into the 2008 Summer Olympics