Volleyball world ranking

The volleyball world ranking list is a ranking list for the national teams of men and women. The members of the world association FIVB receive points according to their results in international competitions.

Scoring system

With the ranking list, which was published at the beginning of February 2020, the FIVB introduced a new rating system that should better reflect the team's current level of performance. Results since January 1, 2019 are taken into account. Individual games are considered in the following competitions. The importance of the competitions is expressed by a factor; half the value applies to qualifying matches.

• Olympic Games (50)
• World Championship (45)
• Volleyball Nations League (40)
• Challenger Cup (20)
• World Cup (35)
• European Championship and Other Continental Competitions (35)
• other tournaments recognized by the FIVB with at least four teams (10)

The respective results are compared with probabilities that an algorithm has determined based on historical results. Teams that do better than calculated win points; those who achieve worse results lose points. The greater the difference between the real and the forecast result, the more points are awarded. Teams that only take part in a few competitions slide down the ranking list.

Current ranking lists

The following tables show the best 25 nations and the positions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the current world rankings. The information in the +/- column shows the change in ranking compared to the previous edition of the world rankings.

Top 25 men as of February 3, 2020
space	team	Points	modification
1	Brazil	427	=
2	Poland	384	=
3	United States	365	=
4th	Russia	317	=
5	Argentina	291	=
6th	France	291	=
7th	Italy	288	=
8th	Iran	279	=
9	Japan	269	=
10	Canada	255	=
11	Serbia	248	=
12	Slovenia	218	=
13	Cuba	212	=
14th	Bulgaria	193	=
15th	Australia	174	=
16	Netherlands	169	=
17th	Tunisia	168	=
18th	Egypt	167	=
19th	Belgium	164	=
20th	South Korea	161	=
21st	Germany	155	=
22nd	Ukraine	140	=
23	Qatar	138	↑
24	Cameroon	137	↑
25th	Mexico	136	↓
...
48	Switzerland	108	=
...
63	Austria	99	=

Top 25 women as of February 3, 2020
space	team	Points	modification
1	People's Republic of China	391	=
2	United States	382	=
3	Brazil	328	=
4th	Italy	300	=
5	Turkey	285	↑
6th	Serbia	280	↓
7th	Japan	277	=
8th	Russia	275	=
9	Dominican Republic	272	=
10	South Korea	261	=
11	Netherlands	253	=
12	Germany	240	=
13	Poland	231	=
14th	Belgium	207	=
15th	Thailand	198	=
16	Puerto Rico	176	=
17th	Argentina	174	=
18th	Canada	173	=
19th	Colombia	168	=
20th	Bulgaria	160	=
21st	Kazakhstan	157	=
22nd	Czech Republic	146	=
23	Kenya	141	=
24	Cameroon	134	=
25th	Croatia	131	=
...
42	Austria	109	=
...
61	Switzerland	92	=

Scoring system until the end of 2019

The number of points awarded was based on the importance of a competition until the end of 2019. More important competitions and more recent results were weighted more heavily in order to show the current performance of a team.

According to the resolution of the Board of Administration of the FIVB, the points were distributed as follows.

• Olympics results have been taken into account for four years and reduced by 25% each year. The Olympic winner received 100 points, the next-placed teams 90, 80 and 70 points. For fifth to eighth place there were 50 points each, for ninth and tenth places 30 points and for eleventh and twelfth places 20 points each.
• The results of the World Cup were also taken into account for four years with an annual reduction of 25%. The best four teams received 100 to 70 points, for fifth to twelfth place there were 62, 56, 50, 45, 40, 36, 33 and 30 points. The following teams received 25 points (13th to 16th place for women; 13th to 18th place for men) and 20 points (17th to 24th place for women; 19th to 24th place for men).
• At the World Cup , the results were taken into account for four years and reduced by 25% from the second year onwards. The best four teams received 100 to 70 points, for fifth to eighth place there were 50, 40, 30 and 25 points, for the teams in ninth to twelfth place there were five points each.
• The results of continental championships, for example a European championship , were taken into account for two years and reduced by 50% in the second year. There was no uniform scoring for this.
• The results of the World League and the World Grand Prix were taken into account for a year. The eight best teams receive 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 15 and 12 points. The other nine teams received from ten to one points, at the World Grand Prix 17th and 18th place received two points and 19th and 20th place one point.
• There were also points for the best non-qualified teams, namely three for the best, two for the second best and one each for the next four teams.

Web links

• Men current world ranking (English)
• current world ranking of women (English)
• Watch the video explaining the new mode (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB introduces new system for world rankings. Volleyball Magazine, December 30, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .