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FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Preview
Created in 1973, the first-ever tournament was held in Uruguay and was won by the Soviet Union with Japan picking up silver and South Korea bronze.
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FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Preview
Turkey will head into the 2027 tournament after winning not only their first medal in 2023, but that happened to be a gold medal too as they became only the sixth country to win this tournament.
They will be looking to back up their win with another, a feat that has been achieved six times in the past, twice by China, three times by Cuba and once by Italy.
Watch out for Zhu Ting!
Their biggest threat in 2027 could well come from Brazil who are yet to win gold but they have been constant finishing in the top four in six of the last eight tournaments including four silver medals.
They won silver in 1995, 2003, 2007 & 2023 and picked up bronze in 1999, could they be a team to claim their first-ever gold medal?
FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Past Winners
When it comes to the past winners there are not a whole lot of countries who can claim they have previously won this tournament, from fourteen past tournaments, only six different countries have claimed a gold medal. The first-ever winners were the Soviet Union who beat Japan for Gold, four years later Japan won gold and since then only four countries have won, China (x5), Cuba (x4), Italy (x2) and Turkey (x1).
*The 2023 tournament only included eight countries and served as one of three qualification groups for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Year | Champions | Runners-Up |
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2023 | Turkey | Brazil |
2019 | China | United States |
2015 | China | Serbia |
2011 | Italy | United States |
2007 | Italy | Brazil |
2003 | China | Brazil |
1999 | Cuba | Russia |
1995 | Cuba | Brazil |
1991 | Cuba | China |
1989 | Cuba | Soviet Union |
FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Betting Tips
You can find daily Volleyball Predictions on the site as we cover tournaments all year round, so not only will you get FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup tips here, but you will get daily predictions for team tournaments throughout the year and other international tournaments too. In addition to this, you can also head over to the Best Volleyball Tipsters page, on this page we only display volleyball tipsters who have shown a profit over the last year for the volleyball tips.
Favourite Statistics
The favourites peaked in 2015 when an incredible 92.42% of them were successful, that was 61 from 66 and over the last three tournaments, the favourites have a success rate of 85.86% so you would have to be a brave person to take on the favourites at this tournament! The best chance you are going to get to take them on is when they are 1.51 or bigger, these have a 57% success rate compared to those which are 1.50 or shorter where the favourite has an 89% success rate!
- 2011: 52-66 (78.79%)
- 2015: 61-66 (92.42%)
- 2019: 57-66 (86.36%)
- 2023: 69-84 (82.14%)
- Overall: 170-198 (85.86%)
Set Score Statistics
Like the men's tournament, the 3-0/0-3 outcome is the one that happens the most, from a total of 348 games, 210 of those have finished with a 3-0 scoreline either way, that is 60% of the games ending with that scoreline, three in every five games! Only 17% of the games went to five sets, and 22% of the games needed four sets to be decided. So, favourites have a great success rate and a 3-0 win is the most popular, there are not too many close matches at this tournament!
- 3-0: 147 Games (42.24%)
- 0-3: 63 Games (18.10%)
- 3-1: 51 Games (14.66%)
- 3-2: 37 Games (10.63%)
- 1-3: 27 Games (07.76%)
- 2-3: 23 Games (06.61%)
FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Medal Table
China lead the way in the medal table for both the total number of medals which is nine and also the most gold medals with five and that has them one clear of Cuba who has four gold medals, they won those at consecutive tournaments too between 1989 & 1999. Only one other country has won multiple gold medals and that is Italy who won back-to-back tournaments in 2007 & 2011.
Rank | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1st | China | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
2nd | Cuba | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
3rd | Italy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
4th | Japan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
5th | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |