The 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship featured 24 teams. One place was allocated to the hosts, Italy, but no automatic place is given to the defending champions, Russia. The remaining 23 places were determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations will compete.
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Qualified teams
1.^ Competed as Soviet Union from 1952 to 1990; 6th appearance as Russia. 2.^ Competed as West Germany from 1956 to 1990; 6th appearance as Germany. 3.^ Competed as Yugoslavia for 1978 and Serbia and Montenegro for 2006; 2nd appearance as Serbia.Confederation qualification processes
The distribution by confederation for the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will be:
References
2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA