FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup Preview & Betting Guide

FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup

Founded in 1965, the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup is a tournament that takes place every four years and has been hosted in Japan since 1977.

FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Content

• FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Preview
• FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Past Winners
• FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Betting Tips
• FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Medal Table

The 2027 tournament will be the sixteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup after the 1973 tournament which was due to be the third instalment and scheduled to take place in Uruguay was cancelled.

The USA will be looking for more medals in 2027, they have won gold in two of the last three tournaments and picked up bronze in the other and with now three golds they moved level with Brazil and only one behind all-time leaders, the Soviet Union.

2027 FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup Preview

The USA will head into the 2027 tournament looking to become the joint-most successful country at the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup, they have three wins to their name and a fourth would tie them with the Soviet Union's record of four.

They picked up their first gold medal in 1985 and have been one of the more dominant countries since then along with Brazil.

In the ten tournaments since their first gold medal, they have only finished outside the top four teams once which was in 2011.

They have picked up medals in all of the last three tournaments, gold in both 2015 & 2023 and bronze in 2019 to add to the bronze they also picked up in 1991.

FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup Past Winners

Brazil and the USA are currently the countries to fear, the pair of them have been responsible for five of the last six gold medals with three going to Brazil and two to the USA.

FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup Betting Tips

Throughout the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup, we will have you covered with predictions on all of the matches right through to the final. You will find all of those FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup tips on the Volleyball Predictions page and remember that we have volleyball tips all year round and not just on this tournament. We also have a Best Volleyball Tipsters page available, on this page, we only highlight volleyball tipsters who have shown a profit over the past year so you get the best of the best!

Favourite Statistics

Over the last four tournaments, the favourites have on average been successful around 81% of the time which is not a bad return. 2015 was a bumper year with 86% of successful favourites, there have been 109 who have been really short, 1.10 or shorter and 105 of those have gone on to win, which is a 96.33% success rate. Those between 1.11 & 1.40 average a 79.31% success rate, however, when you start looking at 1.51 or bigger the success rate drops dramatically and indicates these are the sort of favourites to be taken on and these only have a success rate of 50% meaning half of those lost.

• 2011: 49-65 (75.38%)
• 2015: 57-66 (86.36%)
• 2019: 53-66 (80.30%)
• 2023: 70-84 (83.33%)
• Overall: 159-197 (80.71%)

Set Score Statistics

Winning to nil is one of the most popular outcomes, in total there have been 174 games over the last four tournaments that finished either 3-0 or 0-3, that is exactly half of the games at 50%! A 3-1 score is the second-most outcome with over a fifth of the games finishing in four sets (21.55%). Close games just do not seem to happen, only 65 games (19%) have gone to five sets meaning 81% of the game finish with either a 3-0 or 3-1 scoreline either way.

• 3-0: 122 Games (35.06%)
• 3-1: 75 Games (21.55%)
• 0-3: 52 Games (14.94%)
• 3-2: 35 Games (10.06%)
• 1-3: 34 Games (09.77%)
• 2-3: 30 Games (08.62%)

FIVB Volleyball Mens World Cup Medal Table

The Soviet Union dominated the early years of this competition, they won the first-ever in 1965 and then went on to win three of the first four, they added another gold in 1991 taking their total to four which is still yet to be caught. Brazil won their third gold in 2019 and the USA won their third gold medal in 2023 and are both now in range of the Soviet Union's record four golds.