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.