Format and Event Regulations

Specific Events Regulation: Link (Updated on 01/10 - 10:00 CET Time)

Participating Teams

The FIVB World Tour Finals will be played in Main Draw tournament with 10 teams per gender as follows:

  • Eight (8) teams through the World Ranking over the period of 10th September 2019 until 18th August 2021. The ranking is established based on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Ranking Points earned at the eight (8) best performance as a team in all FIVB sanctioned or homologated Beach Volleyball Events.
  • Two (2) teams per through wild card allocation.

Competition Format

Main Draw of FIVB World Tour Finals will be played into two (2) phases, i.e. Pool Phase and Elimination Phase.

- For the Pool Phase, matches will be played in the competition format of single round

robin, i.e. each team plays every other team in the same pool.

- For the Elimination Phase, matches will be played in the single elimination format by the teams qualified from the Pool Phase, until the semi-finals.

The winners of semifinals will play each other for gold medal while the losers of semi-finals will play each other for bronze medal.