Tokyo-Olympics-2020
As przegladsportowy.pl revealed, compared to the previous format, the FIVB has changed the order of qualification tournaments by the importance for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The most important will be the World Qualification Tournament which will be played at the beginning of 2019 (three best teams will secure their berth). Then, comes the Intercontinental Qualification Tournament in the summer of 2019 (three spots) and finally, five continental championships. In addition to the hosts Japan, we have a total number of 12 national teams to compete in Tokyo 2020. The new FIVB qualification system still needs to be approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) but it is only a matter of formality.
So far, the order of the Olympic qualification system was this: the FIVB World Cup (two spots), five continental qualifiers (winners), the 1st World Qualifier (three spots) and 2nd World Qualifier (one spot). One spot was for the Olympic Games hosts.
The biggest change in the new qualification system is giving the importance to the continental championships (which European Volleyball Confederation – CEV requested from the FIVB in March 2016), expansion of the entire qualification process which will bring even more matches in the international calendar and marginalization of the World Cup.
The FIVB ranking also becomes highly important because it will determine the participants in the qualification tournaments – the World Qualification Tournament will consist of 12 teams (hosts who are yet to be determined, the 2018 FIVB World Championship winners and best 10 teams from each continental federation), while the Intercontinental Qualification Tournament will consist of the best 12 teams from the FIVB ranking (without teams that secured their berth in the previous tournament).
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