The 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the sixth edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held from 14 May to 23 June 2024 and the final round took place at Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, Thailand.

Following the results of the 2023 Nations League and the 2023 Challenger Cup, Croatia were replaced by debutants France in this edition.

Italy claimed their second VNL title after defeating Japan in a four-set final. Japan took the silver medal, which is their best result in this tournament. Poland retained the bronze medal after defeating Brazil in a five-set 3rd place match. Paola Egonu of Italy named as the MVP of the tournament.

Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Eleven of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other five teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament. France replaced Croatia after winning the 2023 Challenger Cup. In a change of format for the next edition, none of current teams will be relegated and from the year 2025 onwards, the competition will consist from 18 teams. The two extra spots will be from the team that wins the 2024 Challenger Cup and the best FIVB ranked team who are not in this year event.

Format

Preliminary round

The format of play is the same as edition 2022's. The new format will see 16 women's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. The participating teams were ranked from 1st to 16th in the FIVB world rankings after the end of the last edition, and each team will play a total of 12 matches during the preliminary round over 3 weeks, against equally strong opponents – 3 matches against teams ranked 1st to 4th, 3 matches against teams ranked 5th to 8th, 3 matches against teams ranked 9th to 12th, and 3 matches against teams ranked 13th to 16th. The eight best teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition. However, this rule is only applied if the finals host country advances as part of this group. In this does not happen, the 7 best teams advance.

Final round

The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches.

Final 8 direct elimination formula:

• The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team.
• The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation does not finish in the top eight in Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.

Pool composition

The overview of pools was released on 8 December 2023.

Venues

Preliminary round

Final round

Competition schedule

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most points gained per match as follows:
   • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
   • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
   • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
   • Sets quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all sets won by the number of all sets lost.
   • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
   • If the tie persists based on the points quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

Preliminary round

Ranking

Week 1

Pool 1

• All times are Turkey Standard Time (UTC+03:00).

Pool 2

• All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).

Week 2

Pool 3

• All times are Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Pool 4

• All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).

Week 3

Pool 5

• All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00).

Pool 6

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Final round

• All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+07:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Statistics leaders correct as of Week 3 of preliminary round.

Final round

Statistics leaders correct as of final round.

See also

• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup
• Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball FIVB