2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

On 2 June 2022, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2023 (i.e., U19 Boys' and Girls' World Championships and U21 Men's and Women's World Championships).^[2] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 29 July 2022, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).^[3]

FIVB announced the hosts for its four Age Group World Championship on 24 January 2023, with Argentina being selected to host the 2023 Boys' U19 World Championship.^[1] Previously, Argentina had been announced as host country by the Argentine Volleyball Federation on 20 December 2022.^[4] This will be the third time that Argentina hosts the FIVB Boys' U19 World Championship having previously done so in 2011 and 2015.

A total of 20 national teams qualified for the final tournament.^[3] In addition to Argentina who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 19 teams qualified through five separate continental competitions which had to be completed by 31 December 2022 at the latest.^[5]

The slot allocation was set as follows:^[3]

• AVC (Asia & Oceania): 4
• CAVB (Africa): 2
• CEV (Europe): 6
• CSV (South America): 3
• NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean): 4
• Host: 1

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Team qualified	Appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
AVC (Asia & Oceania)	2022 Asian Boys' U18 Championship ( Tehran, 15–22 August)	Japan	12th	1989	2019	Runners-up (1993)
		Iran	14th	1989	2021	Champions (2007, 2017)
		India	6th	2003	2021	Runners-up (2003)
		South Korea	12th	1989	2019	Third place (1991, 1993)
CAVB (Africa)	2022 U19 Boys' African Nations Championship[6] ( El Jadida, 1–11 September)	Nigeria	3rd	2019	2021	Fourteenth place (2019, 2021)
		Egypt	13th	1993	2021	Fourth place (2001, 2019)
CEV (Europe)	2022 Boys' U18 European Championship ( Tbilisi, 9–17 July)	Italy	11th	1995	2021	Champions (1997, 2019)
		France	14th	1989	2017	Third place (2007)
		Bulgaria	8th	1989	2021	Runners-up (2021)
		Serbia	3rd	2009	2011	Champions (2009, 2011)
		Slovenia	1st	Debut		None
		Belgium	5th	2007	2021	Sixth place (2007)
CSV (South America)	2022 Boys' U19 South American Championship[7] ( Araguari, 24–28 August)	Brazil	18th (all)	1989	2021	Champions (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2003)
		Colombia	3rd	2019	2021	Fifteenth place (2021)
		Chile	4th	2013	2017	Thirteenth place (2013)
	Host nation	Argentina	13th	1989	2021	Runners-up (2015)
NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean)	2022 Boys' Youth Pan-American Cup ( Guatemala City, 21–29 May)	United States	9th	1995	2019	Seventh place (1995, 2015)
		Mexico	9th	1999	2019	Twelfth place (2007)
		Puerto Rico	10th	1989	2017	Fourth place (1995)
		Costa Rica	2nd	1993	1993	Ninth place (1993)

The draw for the pools composition was held on 31 March 2023 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[8] The 20 teams were split into four pools of five. The hosts Argentina and the top seven teams of the Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking in force at that time (as of 24 October 2022) were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system. FIVB reserved the right to seed the host team as head of pool A regardless of their position in the World Ranking. The remaining 12 teams were divided into three pots of four, according to their position in the same Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking, in order to be drawn to complete the following three positions in each pool.^[9]

Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking of each team as of 24 October 2022 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Argentina who ranked 4th.^[10]

The draw procedure also followed the serpentine system and was as follows:^[9]

• Teams from pot 1 were drawn first and were placed in line 3 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.
• Teams from pot 2 were then drawn and placed in line 4 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
• Teams from pot 3 were drawn at the end and were placed in line 5 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:^[11]

Pool A Pos Team A1  Argentina A2  Egypt A3  United States A4  Serbia A5  Costa Rica

Pool B Pos Team B1  Bulgaria B2  India B3  Japan B4  France B5  Slovenia

Pool C Pos Team C1  Iran C2  Nigeria C3  Colombia C4  Puerto Rico C5  South Korea

Pool D Pos Team D1  Italy D2  Brazil D3  Belgium D4  Mexico D5  Chile

Twenty teams are divided into 4 pools of five in round-robin system. The best four teams from each pool will qualify for the playoffs, while the rest will participate in the classification for 17th to 20th place.^[11]