The 20 14 World Women's Volleyball Championships will be held in three stages, of which the first stage will be held in Rome, Trieste, Bari and Verona on September 23rd. By then, 24 teams will be divided into four groups, with 6 teams in each group playing round robin.
The draw ceremony for the first stage group match was held in Parma at 16: 30 local time in Italy. The host country, Italy, directly entered Group A 1, and the other teams were ranked according to the latest world ranking in June1April. The highest ranked team 1 1 entered the position of 1-3 in groups A, B, C and D in a serpentine arrangement, and the other teams 1-3.