# Volleyball at the 2019 Summer Universiade

The Volleyball at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples is being held between July 5 and July 13. 32 volleyball teams is participating in the tournament. The indoor volleyball competition is taking place at PalaCoscioni in Nocera Inferiore, Palazzetto dello Sport in Ariano Irpino, PalaSele in Eboli and PalaTedeschi in Benevento.

## Qualification

Following the FISU regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in volleyball events where the number of entries is larger than the authorised participation level will be selected by
* The entry and the payment of guarantee.
* Those 8 teams finishing top rankings of the previous edition will be automatically qualified.
* Those 4 teams finishing bottom rankings of the previous edition will be replaced by new applying teams.
* The host is automatically qualified
* The remaining teams will be selected by wild card system according to geographical, continental representation, FISU ranking and FIVB ranking.

### Qualified teams
#### Men's competition

| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Country | — | — | 1 | Italy |
| Top eight of previous edition | 21–28 August 2017 | Taipei | 8 | Iran Russia Japan Ukraine Brazil Argentina Czech Republic Portugal |
| Continental Quotas | — | — | 3 | Canada Chinese Taipei Switzerland |
| First Wild Cards | — | — | 3 | Mexico China United States Germany Hungary |
| Invitation/Later Confirmation | — | — | 5 | Chile France Hong Kong Poland South Korea |
| Total | Total | Total | 20 | |

#### Women's competition

| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Country | — | — | 1 | Italy |
| Top five of previous edition | 21–28 August 2017 | Taipei | 5 | Russia Japan Ukraine Chinese Taipei Thailand Finland France |
| Continental Quotas | — | — | 3 | United States China Germany |
| Wild Cards | — | — | 7 | Argentina  Brazil Canada Czech Republic Hungary Mexico Switzerland |
| Total | Total | Total | 16 | |

## Draw

The pool will be drawn in accordance with FISU regulations based on the following criteria:
* Previous Summer Universiade results
* Participation in previous Summer Universiades
* Continental representation
* FIVB rankings

### Men's competition

| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 |
| Iran (1)  Russia (2)  Japan (3)  Ukraine (4) | Brazil (5)  Argentina (6)  Czech Republic (7)  Portugal (8) | France (9)  Switzerland (10)  Canada (11)  Chinese Taipei (12) | South Korea (13)  Mexico (14)  Hong Kong (16)  United States (17) | Chile (21)  Italy  China  Poland |

### Women's competition

| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Russia (1)  Japan (2)  Ukraine (3)  Chinese Taipei (4) | Thailand (6)  Argentina (8)  Brazil (9)  United States (10) | Switzerland (11)  Czech Republic (12)  Mexico (15)  China | Italy  Canada  Germany  Hungary |

## Pools composition
### Men's competition

| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | Pool D |
| Czech Republic | South Korea | Canada | Argentina |
| Chile | United States | Brazil | Mexico |
| Chinese Taipei | Russia | France | Switzerland |
| Ukraine | Portugal | Iran | Italy |
| Hong Kong | China | Poland | Japan |

### Women's competition

| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | Pool D |
| Canada | Brazil | Chinese Taipei | United States |
| Thailand | Germany | Czech Republic | Switzerland |
| Russia | Ukraine | Hungary | Japan |
| Mexico | China | Argentina | Italy |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy (ITA)* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Medal events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Italy (ITA) Fabio Ricci (c) Giulio Pinali Sebastiano Milan Giacomo Raffaelli Alberto Polo Yuri Romanò Paolo Zonca Marco Pierotti Nicola Salsi Alessandro Piccinelli Gianluca Galassi Francesco Zoppellari | Poland (POL) Jan Nowakowski Michał Kędzierski (c) Łukasz Kozub Bartłomiej Lipiński Bartłomiej Lemański Jędrzej Gruszczyński Patryk Niemiec Bartosz Filipiak Kamil Semeniuk Mateusz Masłowski Paweł Halaba Damian Domagała | Russia (RUS) Pavel Pankov (c) Kirill Klets Andrey Surmachevskiy Aleksei Kononov Kirill Ursov Roman Pakshin Denis Bogdan Dmitry Yakovlev Roman Poroshin Maksim Belogortsev Aleksandr Melnikov Semen Krivitchenko |
| Women details | Russia (RUS) Ekaterina Evdokimova Kristina Kurnosova Anna Lazareva Elena Novik Viktroriia Russu Daria Ryseva Kseniia Smirnova Angelina Sperskaite Anastasia Stalnaya Maria Vorobyeva Valeriya Zaytseva Olga Zubareva | Italy (ITA) Beatrice Molinaro Carlotta Cambi Francesca Bosio Francesca Napodano Beatrice Berti Anna Nicoletti Francesca Villani Chiara De Bortoli Giulia Angelina Elena Perinelli Alexandra Botezat Sylvia Nwakalor | Japan (JPN) Arisa Inoue Ayaka Sugi Yuka Sawada Chinami Furuya Riho Sadakane Minami Takaso Mayu Oikawa Saki Tanaka Tamaki Matsui Mami Yokota Mikoto Shima Yuka Ikeya |