2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship

The 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship will be the 22nd edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It will be held in Mexico from 17 to 26 August 2023.[1]

2021 FIVB Volleyball
Women's U21 World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Mexico
CityLeón
Aguascalientes
Dates17–26 August 2023
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)

This will be the first edition with under-21 national teams after FIVB decided, in March 2022, to move the age category of the women's U20 championship to U21 in order to align it with the Men's U21 World Championship.[2][3]

Italy are the defending champions.

Host selection

On 2 June 2022, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2023 (i.e., U19 Boys' and Girls' World Championships and U21 Men's and Women's World Championships).[4] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 29 July 2022, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).[5]

FIVB announced the hosts for its four Age Group World Championship on 24 January 2023,[1] with Mexico being selected to host the 2023 Women's U21 World Championship.[6] This will be the fifth time that Mexico hosts the FIVB Women's U21 World Championship having previously done so in 1981, 2009, 2017 and 2019.[7]

Qualification

A total of 16 national teams qualified for the final tournament.[5] In addition to Mexico who qualified automatically as the host, 10 other teams qualified through five separate continental competitions which were required to be held by 31 December 2022 at the latest. The remaining 5 teams entered via the Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking among the teams not yet qualified.

The slot allocation was setted as follow:[5]

  • AVC (Asia & Oceania): 2
  • CAVB (Africa): 2
  • CEV (Europe): 2
  • CSV (South America): 2
  • NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean): 2
  • Host: 1
  • Top teams not yet qualified as per Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking: 5
Confederation Qualifying tournament Team qualified Appearances Previous best performance
Total First Last
AVC
(Asia & Oceania)		 2022 Asian Women's U20 Championship
(Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan, 4–11 July)		  Japan 18th 1977 2019 Champions (2019)
 China 21st 1977 2019 Champions (1995, 2013, 2017)
Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking  Thailand 7th 1995 2021 Eight place (2007)
CAVB
(Africa)		 2022 Women's U21 African Nations Championship
(Tunisia Tunis, 26 August–4 September)		  Egypt 9th 2005 2021 Eleventh place (2005)
 Tunisia 3rd 1995 2011 Thirteenth place (1995)
CEV
(Europe)		 2022 Women's U19 European Championship
(North Macedonia Skopje, 27 August–4 September)		  Italy 17th 1985 2021 Champions (2011, 2021)
 Serbia 10th 1997 2021 Runners-up (2005, 2021)
Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking  Netherlands 5th 1995 2021 Fourth place (2003, 2021)
 Poland 12th 1991 2021 Third place (2003)
 Turkey 11th 1999 2021 Fourth place (2017, 2019)
CSV
(South America)		 2022 Women's U21 South American Championship
(Peru Cajamarca, 17–21 August)		  Brazil 22nd (all) 1977 2021 Champions (1987, 1989, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007)
 Argentina 13th 1977 2021 Seventh (2001)
NORCECA
(North, Central America and Caribbean)		 2022 Women's Junior Pan-American Cup
(Mexico La Paz, 7–12 July)		  United States 12th 1977 2021 Fourth place (2007, 2011)
 Cuba 15th 1981 2019 Champions (1985, 1993)
Host nation  Mexico 12th 1977 2019 Fourth place (1981)
Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking  Dominican Republic 13th 1995 2021 Champions (2015)

See also

References
  1. "Hosts And Dates For The FIVB Volleyball Age Group World Championships 2023 Confirmed". FIVB. 24 January 2023.
  2. "New regulations for age group categories adopted by FIVB". NORCECA. 30 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022.
  3. "AVC GOES AHEAD WITH ADJUSTMENT OF 2022 AVC AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS NAKHON PATHOM TO HOST 2 AVC EVENTS IN JUNE". asianvolleyball.net. Asian Volleyball Confederation. 14 April 2022. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022.
  4. "FIVB Opens Bidding Process For 2023 International Age-Group Events". FIVB. 2 June 2022.
  5. "FIVB VOLLEYBALL AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023 Expression of Interest and Organisational Conditions for Future Organisers" (PDF). FIVB. 2 June 2022.
  6. Yépez, Regina (25 January 2023). "León compartirá con Aguascalientes la sede del Mundial de Voleibol Femenil Sub-21". am (in Spanish).
  7. Villalpando, Jesse (9 January 2023). "León y Aguascalientes compartirán el Mundial de Voleibol Sub-21 Femenil". esto.com.mx (in Spanish). Esto.
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