Volleyball at the 2021 Summer World University Games

Following the current 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
Americas Wild Cards	—	—	1	Argentina  Mexico  United States  Canada
Last time Invitations	—	—	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
Wildcards or Late Accepts	—	—	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