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Before the FIVB was founded volleyball was part of the International Amateur Handball Federation.The FIVB was founded in France in April 1947. [4] In the late 1940s, some of the European national federations began to address the issue of creating an international governing body for the sport of volleyball.
Since volleyball was to be added to the Olympic Program in 1964, the 4-cycles were advanced in 2 years after the fourth edition (1960), so that the World Championship may alternate with the Summer Olympics. As of 1970, teams from Africa also took part in the competition, and the original goal of having members from all five continental ...
Until the 2024 edition, the FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup is a competition for national teams which will run in concurrence with the Volleyball Nations League. The Challenger Cup consist of the best non-participating in the current edition of the Volleyball Nations League and featured feature one host team and five to seven teams from the five ...
The FIVB announced that the 2019 Volleyball Nations League (both men's and women's) attracted a cumulative global audience of more than 1.5 billion. This number was an increase of 200 million from the 2018 VNL.
Year Debutants Total 1949 Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union 10 1952 Finland, India, Israel, Lebanon
The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League will be the seventh edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. The competition will be held from 11 June to 3 August 2025.
Team Titles Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place Total 1 Soviet Union 5 (1952, 1956, 1960, 1970, 1990) 2 (1962, 1974) 1 () 8 2 Japan 3 (1962, 1967, 1974) 3 (1960, 1970, 1978)
For each tournament, FIVB decides beforehand the number of places in the finals allocated to each of the continental zones, based on the numbers or relative strength of the confederations' teams. The most recent qualification process was the 2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship qualification which commenced in 2018 and finished in 2021.