2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League
The 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League will be the fourth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. The tournament will be held from May 31 to July 3, 2022, and the finals on July 13 to 17. Qualification. Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which could not face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament. On March 1, 2022, FIVB declared Russia and Belarus ineligible for  international and continental competitions due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. As a result, Russia was out of the Nations League. Later, the FIVB announced Bulgaria replaced Russia for the competition. Format. Preliminary round. In the 2022 tournament, the format of play was changed. The new format will see 16 women's teams competing in pools of 8 teams during the pool phase. Eight teams will then move into the final knockout phase of the competition. Final round. The VNL Finals will see the eight strongest teams moving directly to the knockout phase which will consist of eight matches in  total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches. Pool composition. The overview of pools was released on December 7, 2021.