The women's qualification for the Olympic volleyball tournament occurred between September 2023 and June 2024, allocating twelve teams for the final tournament. As the host nation, France reserved a direct spot each for the women's team, marking the country's maiden participation in the Olympic tournament.
The remainder of the twelve-team field had to endure a dual qualification pathway to secure the quota places for Paris 2024. First, the winners and runners-up from each of the three Olympic qualification tournaments qualified directly for the Games. Second, the last five berths were attributed to the eligible National Olympic Committees (NOCs) based on the FIVB world rankings by June 2024, abiding by the universality principle, that was, prioritizing those from the continents without a qualified team yet in the Paris 2024 tournament.
Qualification summary {| class="wikitable" |- !colspan="2"|Qualification !Date !Venue !Berths !Qualified team |- |colspan="2"|Host nation |colspan="2" |style="text-align:center"|1
|rowspan="6"|FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments|rowspan="2"|Pool A |rowspan="6"|16–24 September 2023 |rowspan="2"| |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2
|rowspan="2"|Pool B |rowspan="2"| Tokyo |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2
|rowspan="2"| |rowspan="2"| Łódź |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2
|rowspan="5" colspan="2"|World Ranking qualification pathway |rowspan="5"|17 June 2024 |rowspan="5" |rowspan="5" style="text-align:center"|5
!colspan="4"|Total !12 !
Host country FIVB reserved a berth for the 2024 Summer Olympics host country to participate in the tournament.
FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournament
As a principal route for the tournament, the winners and runners-up in each of the three qualification pools secured the quota places for Paris 2024.
Qualified teams FIVB released the names of the twenty-four teams eligible to compete in the women's Olympic qualification tournaments for Paris 2024 through the federation's world rankings of 12 September 2022 (except France — qualified for the Games as the host nation; and Russia — ineligible because of the country's invasion of Ukraine).
Qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament Qualified as hosts for the 2024 Summer Olympics Ineligible for international competition
SeedTeamPoints1 3932 3913 3814 3545 3386 3167 299— 2788 2629 25210 24411 24312 21913 21014 20715 19316 17717 16418 16319 160— 15920 15021 14922 14823 14024 136
Pool draw
Pool A (China)
Pool B (Japan)
Pool C (Poland)
World ranking qualification The remaining five berths were attributed to the highest-ranked eligible NOCs based on the FIVB world rankings at the end of the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Nations League preliminary phase. Under the universality principle, the teams were selected according to the order of priority: 1) those from the continent without a qualified team; and 2) highest-ranked eligible NOCs irrespective of the continent.
Qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics via Olympic Qualification Tournament Qualified as hosts for the 2024 Summer Olympics Classifying via be the best ranked team from a continent without a qualified team in 2024 Summer Olympics (Africa and Asia) Classifying via remaining spots for Top World Ranking teams not qualified via Olympic Qualification Tournament
+ Top 25 rankings as of 17 June 2024RankTeamPoints1 399.592 375.453 374.274 361.805 358.116 353.657 322.628 304.489 287.9310 284.7611 254.5812 218.8813 205.3914 196.3815 181.9016 179.5617 177.1718 172.1519 166.9820 162.4221 153.9222 149.2123 144.1924 140.0125 135.69
See also Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
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