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FIVB Senior World Rankings

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The FIVB Senior World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIVB-recognised full international matches. The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula, but the method usually employed is the serpentine system.

The ranking system has been revamped in 2020, responding to criticism that the preceding calculation method did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams. The old version of the ranking system was finally used on 31 January 2020.

As of 23 July 2023, the highest ranked team in the men's category is Poland, while in the women's category is Turkey.

Previous calculation method

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The system of point attribution for the selected FIVB World and Official Competitions below is as follows:[1]

  • Olympic Games and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams.
  • World Championship and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams.
  • World Cup: included for 4 years
  • World Grand Prix: included for 1 year
  • World League: included for 1 year

Current calculation method

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In 2019, FIVB collaborated with Hypercube Business Innovation of the Netherlands to design a new world ranking platform. The previous calculation method had a problem of circularity in the international volleyball calendar: only countries who participate in the major volleyball events can earn ranking points, whilst the number of ranking points of countries also determines seeding and access of teams for major events. This unfair principle does not contribute to the sporting and commercial quality of volleyball.[2]

On 1 February 2020, the new ranking system will be implemented and will take into account all results from 1 January 2019.[3] The system will be consistently updated to reflect the latest results and performances. The new World Ranking considers the match results from all official competitions:

The rankings outcome of each match depends on two main factors:

  • The playing strength of the teams competing
  • The actual match performance or final result of the match

Ranking Procedure

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It is based on the zero-sum system, like CONCACAF Ranking Index or FIFA World ranking, where, after each game, points will be added to or subtracted from a team's rating according to the formula:[4]

where:

  • – the team's number of World Ranking scores after the game
  • – the team's number of World Ranking scores before the game
  • – the match importance:
    • 10.0 – Other annual official events organized by Continental Confederations
    • 17.5 – Confederations' Championship qualifying
    • 20.0 – FIVB Challenger Cup
    • 35.0 – Olympic Games qualifying, FIVB World Cup and Confederations' Championship
    • 40.0 – FIVB Nations League
    • 45.0 – FIVB World Championship
    • 50.0 – Olympic Games
  • – the result of the game depended on match and sets won (3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 2-3, 1-3 or 0-3); see below
  • – the expected result of the game has the value between -2 and +2. If the match is completely balanced, the expected result is 0. The bigger the surprise, the more points are transferred; see below for calculation details.

Match result

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Expected match result

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The expected results is then calculated as where is the probability of the outcome obtained using the following model (known as Ordered probit):

Team A win 3–0
Team A win 3–1
Team A win 3–2
Team A lose 2–3
Team A lose 1–3
Team A lose 0–3

where is the Cumulative distribution function of the Normal distribution, and are the cut-points

set so that is the probability of the outcome between two equal strength opponents (that is when ), which is derived from the actual match results of the past decade.

The parameter represents the scaled difference of the teams rankings

where:

  • – the team A's number of World Ranking scores before the game
  • – the team B's number of World Ranking scores before the game

Examples

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Before the match at the FIVB Volleyball World Championship (K = 45), Brazil (Team A) is ranked number 1 with a 415 WR score and Japan (Team B) is ranked number 11 with a 192 WR score.

Strength difference between Brazil and Japan
Expected match result



Expected match result for Brazil:

Expected match result for Japan:

World and Continental Rankings

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The five Continental Rankings filter the World Ranking points won and lost in matches played between teams from the same Continental Confederation.

  • Intercontinental Tournaments – calculated in World Rankings, but some matches can be calculated in Continental Rankings
Examples

Japan (Asian Volleyball Confederation) vs Italy (Confédération Européenne de Volleyball)
The points calculated in FIVB World Rankings.

Japan (Asian Volleyball Confederation) vs South Korea (Asian Volleyball Confederation)
The points calculated in FIVB World Rankings, and AVC Continental Rankings.

FIVB World Rankings

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Current men's top teams

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Top 30 rankings as of 30 August 2024[5]
Rank Change Team Points
1 Steady  Poland 401.31
2 Increase 2  France 378.07
3 Increase 3  United States 365.87
4 Increase 1  Slovenia 352.5
5 Decrease 2  Italy 346.23
6 Decrease 3  Japan 338.12
7 Steady  Brazil 305.87
8 Increase 3  Germany 274.38
9 Decrease 1  Argentina 266.94
10 Steady  Serbia 259.28
11 Decrease 2  Canada 254.46
12 Steady  Cuba 249.34
13 Steady  Netherlands 204.81
14 Steady  Ukraine 196
15 Steady  Iran 185.07
16 Steady  Belgium 183.24
17 Steady  Turkey 175.28
18 Steady  Czech Republic 168.95
19 Steady  Bulgaria 161.06
20 Steady  Egypt 156.94
21 Steady  Qatar 151.46
22 Steady  Portugal 147.16
23 Increase 1  Finland 146.72
24 Increase 1  Tunisia 145.09
25 Increase 1  China 144.02
26 Increase 1  Romania 143.07
27 Increase 2  Chile 139.14
28 Steady  South Korea 138.48
29 Decrease 6  Croatia 136.4
30 Steady  Puerto Rico 135.23
*Change from 10 July 2024
Complete rankings at volleyballworld.com

Current women's top teams

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Top 30 rankings as of 30 August 2024[6]
Rank Change Team Points
1 Steady  Italy 437.03
2 Steady  Brazil 407.09
3 Steady  United States 362.27
4 Steady  Turkey 352.61
5 Steady  China 350.3
6 Steady  Poland 349.75
7 Steady  Japan 325.18
8 Steady  Canada 284.76
9 Steady  Netherlands 283.99
10 Steady  Serbia 280.42
11 Steady  Dominican Republic 260.54
12 Steady  Germany 222.03
13 Steady  Thailand 194.91
14 Steady  Belgium 190.98
15 Steady  Czech Republic 189.61
16 Steady  Puerto Rico 182.58
17 Steady  Argentina 180.96
18 Steady  Ukraine 172.15
19 Steady  France 157.5
20 Steady  Bulgaria 153.92
21 Steady  Colombia 152.37
22 Steady  Kenya 152.15
23 Steady  Cuba 145.17
24 Steady  Sweden 138.57
25 Steady  Mexico 138.42
26 Steady  Slovenia 137.47
27 Steady  Cameroon 135.69
28 Steady  Slovakia 133.33
29 Steady  Spain 123.31
30 Steady  Greece 117.4
*Change from 10 July 2024
Complete rankings at volleyballworld.com

Historic men's leaders

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For historical men's FIVB rankings from October 2005 to present.[7]

Historic women's leaders

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For historical women's FIVB rankings from September 2005 to present.[8]

See also

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ "FIVB World Ranking system". FIVB. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Ranking FIVB (2019)". Hypercube. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ "FIVB to introduce new World Ranking system for 2020". FIVB. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  4. ^ "HOW IT WORKS" (PDF). FIVB. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  5. ^ "The FIVB World Ranking". FIVB. 30 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  6. ^ "The FIVB Women's World Ranking". FIVB. 30 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Tableau Public". public.tableau.com.
  8. ^ "Tableau Public". public.tableau.com.