Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification

The European qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 4 to 9 January 2016 in Ankara, Turkey. Russia won the tournament by beating Netherlands 3–1, and qualified for the Olympic games. Nataliya Obmochaeva was selected the most valuable player.

Qualification
The host country played with the 7 highest CEV ranking teams which had not yet qualified to the Olympic games. Numbers in brackets denoted the European ranking as of 5 October 2015 except the host which ranked 4th.
 * (host)
 * (1)
 * (2)
 * (5)
 * (6)
 * (7)
 * (8)
 * (9)

Pools composition
The pools composition was announced on 23 October 2015 at the headquarters of CEV, Luxembourg. It followed the Serpentine system according to their European ranking as of 5 October 2015. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the European ranking.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

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

Dream team

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇷🇺 Nataliya Obmochaeva
 * Best setter
 * 🇷🇺 Yevgeniya Startseva
 * Best outside spiker
 * 🇮🇹 Paola Egonu
 * 🇹🇷 Neriman Özsoy
 * Best middle blocker
 * Robin de Kruijf
 * 🇹🇷 Kübra Akman
 * Best opposite spiker
 * Lonneke Slöetjes
 * Best libero
 * 🇮🇹 Stefania Sansonna