France is the reigning champion of the World League
Major changes in World League! FIVB has announced the new format of competition, and the most important thing is that there will be 12 teams in Group 1 in the 2016 edition! The new World League Group 1 will include all 8 teams from the 2015 edition (which means that Russia will remain in top rank despite finishing as the last placed in 2015), while four more national teams were added to the main competition – France as the reigning champion, and Belgium, Argentina and Bulgaria which received wild cards.
These are the teams which will participate in World League 2016 Group 1:
France, Italy, Australia, Russia, USA, Brazil, Iran, Argentina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland.
They will all be put in the same Pool, while the main stage will last for three weeks. The format is the same like in the Grand Prix – Every weekend there will be 3 tournaments with 4 participants. Here you can see the hosts of the tournaments.
After the third weekend, the top 5 teams will advance to the Final Six, together with the host of the final tournament.
World League 2016 will last from June 17 to July 17.
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