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Joke only The 2022 VBIC Women's World Championship World Championship will be the 19th staging.

Host selection
The Netherlands, Poland, and Belgium were selected as dual hosts for this event.

Qualification
The host countries Netherlands and Poland will automatically qualify for the competition as well as the current world champions Russia. The top two teams from each of the 2021 Continental Championships will secure qualification. The final 11 places will belong to top 11 teams as per World Ranking who have not yet qualified.

Format
In the first round, the 24 teams will be spread across four pools of six teams playing in a round-robin system. The top four teams from each pool will advance to the second round. featuring four pools of four teams playing in six cities.
 * First round

In the second round, the 16 teams are allocated in two pools of eight teams (top teams from first round pools A and D in one and top teams from pools B and C in the other). Once again a round-robin system is used in each pool, teams coming from the same first round pool (therefore already played each other) only play against opponents from a different first round pool. The second round standings takes into account the points scored by each team in the first and second rounds. The top four teams of each group will access the final round.
 * Second round

The top four teams of each pool play in quarterfinals. The winners advance to semifinals. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the World Championship title. The losers face each other in the third place match.
 * Final round
 * 1) The Best team standing in second round (combining Pool E and Pool F) will be the rank 1 and face against the rank 8 in the standings in second round.
 * 2) The Second Best team standing in second round will face against rank 7.
 * 3) The Third Best team standing in the second round will face against rank 6.
 * 4) The Fourth Best team standing in the second round will face against rank 5.

First round
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their VBIC World Ranking as of 7 July 2021. VBIC reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pools A, B and C regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 30 July 2021. Rankings as of 7 July 2021 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Netherlands, Poland, and Belgium who ranked 10th, 13th, and 15th respectively.


 * Draw

Final round
The rank in the final round is base according to the team standing combined the Pool E & F.

Pool A

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 * Venue:  Rotterdam, Netherlands

Pool B

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 * Venue: Apeldoorn, Netherlands


 * forfeited due gi kapoy na ang players sa Kazakhstan hahaha

Pool C

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 * Venue: 🇧🇪 Bree, Belgium

Pool D

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 * Venue: 🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium

Pool E

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 * Venue: Almere, Netherlands

Pool F

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 * Venue: 🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz, Poland

Final Round

 * All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Awards

 * Most Valuable Player
 * 🇨🇳 Zhu Ting (CHN)


 * Best Setter
 * 🇨🇳 Ding Xia (CHN)


 * Best Outside Spikers
 * 🇺🇸 Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (USA)
 * 🇨🇳 Zhu Ting (CHN)


 * Best Opposite Spiker
 * 🇷🇸 Tijana Bošković (SRB)


 * Best Middle Blockers
 * 🇮🇹 Cristina Chirichella (ITA)
 * 🇨🇳 Yuan Xinyue (CHN)


 * Best Libero
 * 🇮🇹 Monica De Gennaro (ITA)