2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification

24 teams competed in the 2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, with two places allocated for the hosts, Argentina and the titleholder, Italy. In the qualification process for the 2002 FIVB World Championship, the Five FIVB confederations were allocated a share of the 22 remaining spots.

Confederation qualification processes

The distribution by confederation for the 2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was:^[1]

Asia (AVC): 5 places
Africa (CAVB): 2 places
Europe (CEV): 10 places (+ Italy qualified automatically as the defending champions for a total of 11 places)
South America (CSV) 1.5 places (+ Argentina qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 2.5 places)
North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA): 3.5 places

CAVB

10 national teams entered qualification. (South Africa and Ghana later withdrew) The teams were distributed according to their position in the FIVB Senior Men's Rankings. Teams ranked 1–6 automatically qualified for the second round.

Sub Pool A	Pool A	Pool B
Nigeria Kenya Namibia ~~South Africa~~	Egypt Cameroon Morocco 1st Sub Pool A	Algeria Tunisia ~~Ghana~~ 2nd Sub Pool A

Sub Pool A

Venue: Benin City, Nigeria
Dates: January 28–30, 2001

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Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total
28 Jan	Kenya	3–0	Namibia	25–14	25–9	25–11		75–34
29 Jan	Nigeria	3–0	Namibia	25–11	25–6	25–18		75–35
30 Jan	Nigeria	3–1	Kenya	25–20	19–25	25–22	25–15	94–82

Pool A

Venue: Cairo, Egypt
Dates: August 10–12, 2001

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Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Aug	Cameroon	3–0	Nigeria	25–20	25–22	25–17			75–59
10 Aug	Egypt	3–1	Morocco	25–23	20–25	25–14	25–19		95–81
11 Aug	Morocco	3–2	Cameroon	25–21	25–23	20–25	19–25	17–15	106–109
11 Aug	Egypt	3–2	Nigeria	23–25	25–22	25–21	23–25	15–11	111–104
12 Aug	Morocco	0–3	Nigeria	23–25	19–25	23–25			65–75
12 Aug	Egypt	3–0	Cameroon	25–20	25–18	25–20			75–58

Pool B

Venue: Algiers, Algeria
Dates: August 9–11, 2001

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Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total
09 Aug	Algeria	3–0	Kenya	25–17	25–18	25–16	75–51
10 Aug	Tunisia	3–0	Kenya	25–14	25–15	28–26	78–55
11 Aug	Algeria	0–3	Tunisia	13–25	24–26	15–25	52–76

AVC

12 national teams entered qualification.

Pool C	Pool D	Pool E
South Korea Indonesia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan	Qatar Japan Chinese Taipei India	China Australia Thailand Saudi Arabia

CEV

Pool F	Pool G	Pool H	Pool I
Spain Austria Croatia Norway	Netherlands Portugal Denmark Israel	Czech Republic Ukraine Hungary Slovenia	Poland France Latvia Moldova
Pool J	Pool K	Pool L
Slovakia Bulgaria Belgium Romania	Finland Yugoslavia Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina	Russia Greece Turkey Estonia

NORCECA

10 national teams entered qualification. The teams were distributed according to their position in the FIVB Senior Men's Rankings. Teams ranked 1–6 automatically qualified for the second round.

Sub Pool B	Pool M	Pool N
Jamaica Dominican Republic Aruba Netherlands Antilles	Cuba Mexico Puerto Rico 2nd Sub Pool B	United States Canada Barbados 1st Sub Pool B

CSV

4 national teams entered qualification but Peru later withdrew.

Pool O
Brazil Venezuela Chile ~~Peru~~

Pool O

Venue: São Caetano do Sul, Brazil
Dates: July 26–28, 2001

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Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total
26 Jul	Venezuela	3–0	Chile	25–11	25–16	25–15	75–42
27 Jul	Brazil	3–0	Chile	25–11	25–16	25–8	75–35
28 Jul	Brazil	3–0	Venezuela	25–22	25–20	25–11	75–53