FIVB Senior Continental Rankings

The FIVB Senior Continental Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. Divided to five continental confederations, the teams of the member nations of 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.

In 2019, FIVB collaborated with Hypercube Business Innovation of the Netherlands to design a new world ranking platform. The previous calculation method have 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.^[1]

On 1 February 2020, the new ranking system will be implemented and will take into account all results from 1 January 2019.^[2] The system will be consistently updated to reflect the latest results and performances. The new World Ranking considers the match results between teams in the same continental confederations from all official competitions:

Tournament		Category	Organizer	${\displaystyle K}$	Note
Olympic Games finals		Intercontinental	FIVB	45	only matches between teams in same confederations
Intercontinental Olympic Qualifying		Intercontinental		25	only matches between teams in same confederations
Continental Olympic Qualifying	Asia	Continental		25	co-sanctioned with AVC
	Africa				co-sanctioned with CAVB
	Europe				co-sanctioned with CEV
	S America				co-sanctioned with CSV
	N America				co-sanctioned with NORCECA
World Championship finals		Intercontinental	FIVB	45	only matches between teams in same confederations
World Championship Qualifying				22.5	only matches between teams in same confederations
Nations League		Intercontinental	FIVB	40	only matches between teams in same confederations
Challenger Cup				20	only matches between teams in same confederations
World Cup		Intercontinental	FIVB	35	only matches between teams in same confederations
African Championship finals		Continental	CAVB	35
African Zonal Championship	North			17.5
	West A
	West B
	Central
	East
	South A
	South B
Asian Championship finals		Continental	AVC	35
Asian Championship Qualifying				17.5
Asian Challenge Cup		Continental	AVC	10
Asian Zonal Championship	West	Continental	AVC	10
	Central
	East
	ASEAN
	Oceania
EuroVolley finals		Continental	CEV	35
EuroVolley Qualifying				17.5
European League		Continental	CEV	10
NORCECA Championship finals		Continental	NORCECA	35
NORCECA Zonal Championship	N Central			17.5
	Central
	E Caribbean
	Caribbean
NORCECA Champions Cup		Continental	NORCECA	10
Pan-American Volleyball Cup		Continental	NORCECA	10	co-sanctioned with CSV
South American Championship		Continental	CSV	35