Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

A total of 36 teams participated in each gender category. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 2 teams of 2 athletes, 1 per each gender. As hosts, China was initially given the maximum quota, but only field a girls' team. A further 10 teams, 5 in each gender was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission, but only 5 were given. The other spots were reallocated to the top ranked teams not yet qualified. Each of the five volleyball federations hosted qualification events to qualify 12 teams, 6 in each gender.^[2]

Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified.^[3]

Only athletes born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999 were eligible to participate in the 2014 Youth Olympics.^[2]

Boys

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Event	Location	Date	Total Teams	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	0	China
EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament[4]	Pigeon Point	18–20 October 2013	1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament[5]	Maracus Bay	26–28 November 2013	1	Jamaica
Central Zone Qualification Tournament[6]	Fajardo	6–8 December 2013	1	Canada
AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament[7]	Guatemala City	1–2 February 2014	1	Guatemala
AVC Qualification Tournament[8]	Nakhon Si Thammarat	4–6 April 2014	6	Indonesia  Iran  Kazakhstan  New Zealand  Sri Lanka  Thailand
CAVB Qualification Tournament[9]	Accra	11–13 April 2014	6	Burundi  Republic of the Congo  Ghana  Nigeria  Rwanda  Sierra Leone
NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament[10]	Carolina	12–13 April 2014	2	Puerto Rico  United States
2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final[11][12]	Antalya	15–17 May 2014	6	Finland  France  Germany  Poland  Russia  Ukraine
CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings[13]	-	19 May 2014	6	Uruguay  Argentina  Venezuela  Peru  Paraguay  Brazil
Tripartite Invitation[14]	-	-	3	Oman  São Tomé and Príncipe  Virgin Islands
Reallocation[14]	-	-	3	Austria  Lithuania  Norway
TOTAL			36

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Girls

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Event	Location	Date	Total Teams	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament[15]	Pigeon Point	18–20 October 2013	1	Saint Lucia
CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament[16]	Maracus Bay	26–28 November 2013	1	Trinidad and Tobago
Central Zone Qualification Tournament[17]	Fajardo	6–8 December 2013	1	United States
AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament[18]	Guatemala City	1–2 February 2014	1	Guatemala
AVC Qualification Tournament[8]	Nakhon Si Thammarat	4–6 April 2014	6	Australia  Chinese Taipei  Indonesia  Kazakhstan  Thailand  Vietnam
CAVB Qualification Tournament[9]	Accra	11–13 April 2014	6	Republic of the Congo  Ghana  Namibia  Nigeria  Rwanda  Sierra Leone
NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament[19]	Carolina	12–13 April 2014	2	Canada  Puerto Rico
2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final[20][21]	Antalya	15–17 May 2014	6	Czech Republic  France  Germany  Italy  Russia  Turkey
CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings[13]	-	19 May 2014	6	Paraguay  Ecuador  Argentina  Uruguay  Brazil  Bolivia
Tripartite Invitation[14]	-	-	2	Tuvalu  Vanuatu
Reallocation[14]	-	-	3	Austria  Latvia  Switzerland
TOTAL			36

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The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[22] During the group stage there will be three sessions per day in order for all teams to play their match. Likewise the quarterfinals will have two sessions in order for all teams to play on the two main courts.

All times are CST (UTC+8)