Volleyball - Men's World Championship - Statistics

• Summary by team since 1949

  Team	Victories	First Victory	Last Victory
  U.S.S.R.	6	1949	1982
  Italy	5	1990	2025
  Brazil	3	2002	2010
  Poland	3	1974	2018
  Czechoslovakia	2	1956	1966
  United States	1	1986	1986
  East Germany	1	1970	1970

• Winners and finalists since 1949

  Team	Winners	Finalists
  U.S.S.R.	6	2
  Italy	5	1
  Brazil	3	3
  Poland	3	2
  Czechoslovakia	2	4
  United States	1	0
  East Germany	1	0
  Bulgaria		2
  Cuba		2
  Romania		2
  Netherlands		1
  Russia		1
  Yougoslavia		1
  Japan
  Argentina
  Germany
  France
  Serbia

• Various statistics since 1949
  
  

  Number of appearances

  1	Bulgaria	20
  2	Italy	19
  3	Poland	19
  4	Brazil	18
  5	France	18
  6	United States	18
  7	Cuba	17
  8	Japan	16
  9	China	15
  10	Argentina	14

  Number of matches

  1	Brazil	177
  2	Italy	166
  3	Bulgaria	163
  4	Poland	160
  5	United States	149
  6	France	147
  7	Cuba	132
  8	Japan	130
  9	Netherlands	116
  10	China	114

  Games per appearance

  1	North Korea	11
  2	Panama	11
  3	Serbia and Montenegro	11
  4	Yougoslavia	10.8
  5	Austria	10.5
  6	East Germany	10.1
  7	Libya	10
  8	Mongolia	10
  9	Russia	10
  10	Brazil	9.8

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  Wins

  1	Brazil	120
  2	Poland	110
  3	Italy	104
  4	Bulgaria	100
  5	U.S.S.R.	97
  6	United States	91
  7	Czechoslovakia	82
  8	Cuba	76
  9	France	75
  10	Japan	65

  Number of wins in games played

  1	U.S.S.R.	85 %
  2	Czechoslovakia	75 %
  3	Serbia and Montenegro	73 %
  4	Russia	71 %
  5	Poland	69 %
  6	Brazil	68 %
  7	North Korea	68 %
  8	East Germany	65 %
  9	Italy	63 %
  10	Romania	62 %

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  Losses

  1	France	72
  2	China	67
  3	Japan	65
  4	Bulgaria	63
  5	Italy	62
  6	United States	58
  7	Brazil	57
  8	Tunisia	57
  9	Cuba	56
  10	Venezuela	55

  Number of losses in games played

  1	Algeria	100 %
  2	Austria	100 %
  3	Croatia	100 %
  4	Denmark	100 %
  5	Kazakhstan	100 %
  6	Libya	100 %
  7	Panama	100 %
  8	Peru	100 %
  9	Qatar	100 %
  10	Thailand	100 %

• All time table since 1949

  (Based on W=2 pts and D=1 pts)

  	Team	S	Firs	Best	Pts	MP	W	L	GF	GA	diff
  1	Brazil	18	1956	1st	297	177	120	57	415	224	+191
  2	Poland	19	1949	1st	270	160	110	50	373	223	+150
  3	Italy	19	1949	1st	270	166	104	62	361	243	+118
  4	Bulgaria	20	1949	2nd	263	163	100	63	359	257	+102
  5	United States	18	1956	1st	240	149	91	58	323	235	+88
  6	France	18	1949	3rd	222	147	75	72	274	272	+2
  7	U.S.S.R.	12	1949	1st	211	114	97	17	313	80	+233
  8	Cuba	17	1956	1st	208	132	76	56	267	232	+35
  9	Japan	16	1960	3rd	195	130	65	65	243	248	-5
  10	Czechoslovakia	12	1949	1st	192	110	82	28	269	137	+132
  11	Netherlands	14	1949	-	180	116	64	52	219	202	+17
  12	China	15	1956	8th	161	114	47	67	175	233	-58
  13	Romania	11	1949	2nd	159	98	61	37	220	154	+66
  14	Argentina	14	1960	1st	153	102	51	51	196	197	-1
  15	Canada	13	1974	-	125	88	37	51	138	185	-47
  16	Russia	7	1994	2nd	120	70	50	20	172	84	+88
  17	Hungary	8	1949	5th	120	77	43	34	163	134	+29
  18	East Germany	7	1956	1st	117	71	46	25	153	96	+57
  19	Republic of Korea	10	1956	4th	103	73	30	43	119	148	-29
  20	Yougoslavia	6	1956	2nd	101	65	36	29	133	106	+27
  21	Belgium	10	1949	8th	96	74	22	52	93	171	-78
  22	Finland	9	1952	-	93	71	22	49	99	162	-63
  23	Venezuela	11	1960	10th	89	72	17	55	67	181	-114
  24	Tunisia	12	1962	-	79	68	11	57	55	182	-127
  25	Egypt	11	1974	-	64	55	9	46	57	145	-88
  26	Germany	6	1994	3rd	61	41	20	21	70	72	-2
  27	Mexico	6	1974	-	58	42	16	26	62	92	-30
  28	Greece	6	1970	2nd	57	42	15	27	56	94	-38
  29	Serbia	5	2010	3rd	55	34	21	13	72	52	+20
  30	Iran	8	1970	-	54	40	14	26	56	92	-36
  31	Israel	4	1952	-	47	34	13	21	48	69	-21
  32	Puerto Rico	6	1974	-	47	40	7	33	38	104	-66
  33	Australia	7	1982	-	46	39	7	32	37	105	-68
  34	Spain	3	1998	-	39	27	12	15	57	59	-2
  35	North Korea	2	1962	-	37	22	15	7	51	29	+22
  36	Czech Republic	5	1998	4th	36	27	9	18	42	59	-17
  37	Mongolia	3	1962	-	35	30	5	25	20	80	-60
  38	Turkey	6	1956	-	33	27	6	21	25	65	-40
  39	Portugal	3	1956	-	30	20	10	10	34	38	-4
  40	Cameroon	5	1990	-	27	24	3	21	16	64	-48
  41	Ukraine	3	1998	-	24	17	7	10	24	34	-10
  42	Slovenia	3	2018	4th	23	15	8	7	32	26	+6
  43	Albania	2	1962	-	23	16	7	9	29	28	+1
  44	West Germany	3	1956	-	23	19	4	15	17	46	-29
  45	Austria	2	1956	-	21	21	0	21	2	63	-61
  46	Serbia and Montenegro	1	2006	4th	19	11	8	3	26	13	+13
  47	Dominican Republic	2	1974	-	19	16	3	13	16	40	-24
  48	India	2	1952	-	17	11	6	5	21	15	+6
  49	Chile	2	1982	1st	13	10	3	7	12	23	-11
  50	Sweden	2	1990	-	12	9	3	6	14	21	-7
  51	Iraq	1	1982	-	11	9	2	7	9	23	-14
  52	Panama	1	1974	-	11	11	0	11	3	33	-30
  53	Libya	1	1982	2nd	10	10	0	10	5	30	-25
  54	Lebanon	1	1952	-	9	7	2	5	6	18	-12
  55	Denmark	1	1966	-	9	9	0	9	2	27	-25
  56	Kazakhstan	2	2002	-	8	8	0	8	4	24	-20
  57	Paraguay	1	1960	-	7	5	2	3	9	10	-1
  58	Taiwan	1	1986	-	7	6	1	5	4	16	-12
  59	Uruguay	1	1960	-	6	5	1	4	7	12	-5
  60	Luxemburg	1	1956	-	6	5	1	4	3	12	-9
  61	Guinea	1	1970	-	6	5	1	4	4	14	-10
  62	Algeria	3	1994	-	6	6	0	6	1	18	-17
  63	Peru	1	1960	-	5	5	0	5	1	15	-14
  64	Croatia	1	2002	-	3	3	0	3	1	9	-8
  -	Qatar	2	2022	-	3	3	0	3	1	9	-8
  66	Thailand	1	1998	-	3	3	0	3	0	9	-9

General Informations

• First edition : 1949
• Editions : 21 (including 2025)
• Official name : FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
• Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIVB_Volleyball_World_Championship
• Organiser : Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB)
• Official website : http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions.asp
• First winner : U.S.S.R.
• Most wins : U.S.S.R. (6)
• Most recent winner : Italy