Formula

The 18th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 World Championship will be held in San Juan, Argentina, from August 2-11, and will feature 20 national teams.

The participating teams will be divided into four pools and will play a round-robin tournament. The bottom-ranked team of each pool will play classification matches for 17th-20th place also in a round-robin system.

The other 16 teams will progress to the eighth finals (first of Pool A against fourth of Pool B etc). The winners will advance to the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals to be classified from first to eighth. The losers will participate in playoffs and classification matches for positions 9 to 16.

The Nigerian Volleyball Federation was unable to secure entry visas for its team delegation and therefore all the matches of the competition shall result in the forfeiture with the score 0-3 (0-25 / 0-25 / 0-25).