CEV announces 2018 World Championships qualification formula

Luxembourg, May 3, 2016 – The CEV Board of Administration has approved the formula of the European qualification process for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championships which will take place in Italy and Bulgaria (men) and Japan (women). Italy will host their third successive World Championship – they hosted the men’s competition in 2010 and the women’s tournament in 2014 – and also hosted the men’s World Championship in 1978. It will be the first time a World Championship is co-hosted by two countries. Japan, on the other hand, will play host to the women’s Worlds for the fifth time after events in 1967, 1998, 2006 and 2010.With 2014 gold medallists Poland and hosts Italy and Bulgaria already qualified for the 2018 Men’s World Championship, an additional 39 men’s teams have registered to participate in the qualification process which will deliver another seven …

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