The teams for the odd-number position (Pot 2, Pot 4, Pot 6) were drawn and then placed starting from pool A to pool C. The teams for the even-number position (Pot 1, Pot 3, Pot 5, Pot 7) were drawn and then placed starting from pool C to pool A. The order of drawing was applied with the serpentine system. The remaining twenty-one teams were allocated into seven pots of three teams based on the FIVB Women's World Rankings of 1 January 2023.
For the first position of each pool, FIVB reserved the right to the three hosts with the top-ranked hosted team allocated to pool A, the middle-ranked hosted team allocated to pool B, and the last-ranked hosted team allocated to pool C. CountryĪccording to the qualification system, the twenty-four teams were placed into three pools of eight teams. The FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments (OQTs) include the 24 best-placed non-qualified teams (except Russia who is ineligible to compete in the OQTs due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ) from the FIVB World Rankings as of 17 October 2022.
