| Most recent season or competition: 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup | |
| Sport | Volleyball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1965 |
| First season | 1965 |
| CEO |  Ary Graça |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Continent | International (FIVB) |
| Most recent champion(s) | Brazil (2019) |
| Most titles |  Soviet Union(4 titles) |
| Streaming partner(s) | Volleyball TV |
The FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Initially, the tournament was played in the year following the Olympic Games, except for 1973 when no tournament was held, but since 1991 the World Cup has been awarded in the year preceding the Olympic Games. The 2023 edition, however, did not take place as the qualification tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics was not officially recognized by the FIVB as a World Cup.[1]
The most recent champions are Brazil, who won their third title at the 2019 tournament. The most recent edition of the competition involved twelve teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation Japan, competing in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about two weeks. The World Cup (with the exception of the 2019 edition) acts as the first qualification event for the following year's Olympic Games with the top two teams qualifying.
The 14 World Cup tournaments have been won by six different national teams. Russia is the most successful team, having won the title six times (four as Soviet Union). The other World Cup winners are Brazil with three titles, the United States with two titles, followed by Cuba, Italy and East Germany with one title each.
- ^ "FIVB Competitions – FIVB". Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. Retrieved 11 June 2024.