The 24 teams are divided into four groups: A, B, C and D, with 6 teams in each group. The competition adopts a single round robin system. There will be 60 matches in the first group match. After the first stage of the competition, the top four players in each group were promoted to 16, and the bottom two players in each group were eliminated, with a total of eight teams eliminated.
20 14 the first stage of the women's volleyball world championships is divided into groups a, b, c and d: Italy, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Serbia, Russia, China, Dominica, Turkey, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Tunisia and Cameroon. In the second stage, Mexico and Azerbaijan, grouped into 16, and eliminated: (10,1-10,5).
The advanced 16 teams are divided into two groups, E and F, with 8 teams in each group. Among them, four teams from Group A and D4 merged into Group E, and four teams from Group B and four teams from Group C formed Group F to compete for the single round robin, but the teams that met in the first stage no longer played, and the results were counted as the results of the first stage. The top three in groups E and F advanced to the round robin of the top six groups. At this stage, 10 team was eliminated.
20 14 World Women's Volleyball Championship: Group E, Group F, A1B1A2B2A3A4B4 D1C/D2C2D3 D4, eliminated in the third stage: (108-/D4.
The six teams will be divided into two groups, among which the top names of Group E and Group F will enter Group G and Group H respectively, and the remaining four teams will be redistributed according to the lottery results. Three teams in each group play a single round robin, and the top two teams in the group advance to the semi-finals. At this stage, two teams will be eliminated, resulting in a rematch.
The third stage of the 20 14 Women's Volleyball World Championships is divided into three semi-finals: Group G, Group H, E1F1E2/F2e2/F2e3/F3. The winning team competed for the championship, while the loser competed for the bronze medal. The final was held in Milan on 10/2.