Volleyball at the Universiade
Venue	various
Dates	29 July–7 August 2023
Teams	16 (men) & 12 (women)
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Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu was played between July 29 and August 7, 2023. 28 volleyball teams participated at the tournament. ^[1]

Following the FISU regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in 2 volleyball events where the number of entries is larger than the authorised participation level will be selected by ^[2]

• The entry and the payment of guarantee.
• Those 8 (in men's tournament) or 5 (in women's tournament) teams finishing top rankings of the previous edition will be automatically qualified.If any country gives up, the next in line is called up.
• Those 4 teams finishing bottom rankings of the previous edition will be replaced by new applying teams.If they are among the 4 relegated in the previous edition, the fifth worst team is the one that is eliminated.This rule did not need to be applied in this edition due to the high number of withdrawals from the tournament.
• The host country is always automatically qualified.
• The remaining teams could will be selected by wild card system according to geographical, continental representation, FISU ranking and FIVB rankings.

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1	China
Top eight of previous edition	5–13 July 2019	Naples	8	Italy  Poland Russia  France  Japan  Czech Republic  Chinese Taipei  Portugal   Switzerland  South Korea
Continental Quotas	—	—	2	Brazil  Ukraine
Wild Card	—	—	1	Argentina  Mexico  United States  Canada
Invitation	—	—	5	Azerbaijan  Germany  India  Iran  Hong Kong  Cyprus  Australia
Total			16

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1	China
Top five of previous edition	5–13 July 2019	Naples	5	Russia  Italy  Japan  Hungary  Germany  Brazil  Czech Republic
Continental Quotas	—	—	2	Mexico United States  Argentina  Chinese Taipei  Australia Ukraine
Invitations or Late commits	—	—	4	Colombia  Hong Kong  Poland  India
Total			12

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	1	0	1	2
2	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
3	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Poland	Argentina	China	Italy
South Korea	Czech Republic	Azerbaijan	Chinese Taipei
Hong Kong	Iran	Japan	Germany
Portugal	India	Ukraine	Brazil

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Brazil	China	Italy	Japan
Poland	Argentina	India	Colombia
Chinese Taipei	Germany	Hong Kong	Czech Republic

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Italy (ITA) Paolo Porro Tim Held Alberto Pol Francesco Recine (c) Davide Gardini Lorenzo Cortesia Nicola Salsi Damiano Catania Marco Vitelli Edoardo Caneschi Giulio Magalini Lorenzo Sala	Poland (POL) Jakub Czyżowski Łukasz Kozub (c) Kewin Sasak Michał Gierżot Damian Kogut Mariusz Magnuszewski Jakub Abramowicz Dawid Woch Maciej Krysiak Dawid Dulski Kamil Szymura Mateusz Poręba	China (CHN) Chen Leiyang Wang Hebin Zhang Jingyin (c) Yu Yuantai Wang Bin Deng Xinpeng Peng Shikun Li Yongzhen Wang Dongchen Zhang Guanhua Yang Yiming Hu Zhenzhuo
Women details	China (CHN) Zhang Shiqi Ma Wanyue Xie Shengyu Xu Jianan Wu Mengjie Gao Yi Zhong Hui Xu Xiaoting Zhuang Yushan (c) Wang Wenhan Zhou Yetong Miao Yiwen	Japan (JPN) Sayaka Yokota (c) Sae Nakajima Saki Ishikura Angelina Kobayashi Kurumi Takama Hiroyo Yamanaka Haruna Kawabata Tsukasa Nakagawa Yoshino Sato Haruka Oyama Furi Kosa Ameze Miyabe	Poland (POL) Kornelia Moskwa Marta Orzyłowska Małgorzata Lisiak Aleksandra Rasińska Pola Nowakowska Julita Piasecka Kinga Drabek Karolina Drużkowska Marta Łyczakowska Justyna Łysiak Alicja Grabka (c) Weronika Szlagowska