Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be the 16th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It will be held in Paris, France from 27 July to 11 August 2024. This is the first time in the history competition, each team participating will be entitled to include one non-competing (AP) athlete to replace an athlete for medical reasons. As such, team rosters will increase from 12 to 13 athletes.

Competition schedule
The match schedule was announced on 26 June 2024.

Format
In a change of format compared to the previous nine editions of the Olympic Games, this tournament will feature three groups with four teams each during the preliminary round (between 1972 Summer Olympics to 2020 Summer Olympics the teams were placed in two groups). At this round, the teams will compete in a single round-robin format. The two highest ranked teams in each pool and the best two third-placed teams advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals).

The knockout stage will follow the single-elimination format. The match-ups will determine by teams combined ranking system, #1 vs #8 (QF1), #2 vs #7 (QF2), #3 vs #6 (QF3), #4 vs #5 (QF4). The winners will advance to quarterfinals, QF1 vs QF4, QF3 vs QF2. The losers will compete for bronze medals and the winners will compete for gold medals.

Draw
The twelve qualified teams were seeded according to their position in the FIVB World Ranking as of 17 June 2024. As the host team, France was seeded first and placed in the top position of Pool A. The two top ranked teams seeded second and third were placed at the top of Pools B and C respectively. The remaining nine teams were distributed across three bowls of three teams each based on their position in the World Ranking and drawn for their seed line by line applying the serpentine system. The draw took place on 19 June 2024. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 19th.

Pool standing procedure and teams combined ranking system
Pool standing procedure

In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented: Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
 * 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 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Teams combined ranking system

In order to determine teams playing in quarterfinals and their match-ups:
 * 1) Pool Position
 * 2) Number of matches won
 * 3) Match points
 * 4) Sets ratio
 * 5) Points ratio
 * 6) Head-to-head
 * 7) World ranking

Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.


 * 🇦🇷 Karina Rene
 * 🇧🇷 Angela Grass
 * 🇧🇬 Ivaylo Ivanov
 * 🇨🇦 Scott Dziewirz
 * 🇨🇳 Ziling Wang
 * 🇩🇴 Denny Cespedes
 * 🇪🇬 Wael Kandil
 * 🇫🇷 Fabrice Collados
 * Epaminondas Gerothodoros
 * 🇮🇹 Stefano Cesare
 * 🇯🇵 Sumie Myoi
 * 🇵🇱 Wojciech Maroszek
 * 🇸🇰 Juraj Mokrý
 * Vladimir Simonović
 * 🇹🇷 Nurper Özbar
 * Hamid Al-Rousi

Preliminary round

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

Pool A


 





 

Pool B


<section begin=B1 /><section end=B1 />

<section begin=B2 /><section end=B2 />

<section begin=B3 /><section end=B3 />

<section begin=B4 /><section end=B4 />

<section begin=B5 /><section end=B5 />

<section begin=B6 /><section end=B6 />

Pool C
<section begin=CStandings /><section end=CStandings /> <section begin=C1 /><section end=C1 />

<section begin=C2 /><section end=C2 />

<section begin=C3 /><section end=C3 /> <section begin=C4 /><section end=C4 />

<section begin=C5 /><section end=C5 />

<section begin=C6 /><section end=C6 />

Combined ranking
<section begin=Combined /><section end=Combined />

Quarter-finals
<section begin=D1 /><section end=D1 />

<section begin=D2 /><section end=D2 />

<section begin=D3 /><section end=D3 />

<section begin=D4 /><section end=D4 />

Semi-finals
<section begin=D5 /><section end=D5 />

<section begin=D6 /><section end=D6 />

Bronze medal match
<section begin=D7 /><section end=D7 />

Gold medal match
<section begin=D8 /><section end=D8 />