2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event

The 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event was the 13th edition of this tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winners secure a ticket to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Iran were the defending champions and successfully defended their title triumphing over Bosnia and Herzegovina in straight sets.

Host selection

 * 🇨🇳, (Hangzhou) (original hosts but withdrew)
 * 🇧🇦 (Sarajevo)

Originally, the tournament was supposed to be in Hangzhou, China on the 18–24 May. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was postponed and China had to withdraw as hosts.

On 1 April 2022, the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, was awarded the hosting rights in the new dates of 4–11 November.

Qualified teams
The teams who were invited to participate are as follows, the numbers next to the countries are their world rankings prior to the tournament:

Africa (2)


 * (5)
 * (14)

Americas (3)


 * (4)
 * (13)
 * (10)

Asia (4)


 * (9)
 * (1)
 * (17)
 * (11)

Europe (7)


 * (H) (2)
 * (12)
 * (8)
 * (15)
 * (16)
 * (21)
 * (7)

Seeding
The seeding and groups were as follows:

Venue
The venue was the Arena Hotel Hills in Sarajevo.

Broadcasting rights
Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT) is the host broadcaster for the 2022 WPV Sitting Volleyball World Championships. The games involving Bosnia and Herzegovina were broadcast on (BHRT), while every game not broadcast is on YouTube.

Format
16 teams are split into four groups of four, where every team advances to the Round of 16. In the Round of 16, teams who finished 1st play the teams that finished fourth, and the teams who finished 2nd play the teams that finished third. The eight winners advance to the Quarter Finals, while the eight losers play in a 9–16 classification bracket.

Pool B


Classification rounds

 * 5–8th place bracket


 * 9–16th place bracket


 * 13–16th place bracket