FIVB Volleyball World League

The FIVB Volleyball World League was an annual international men's volleyball competition created in 1990 by the Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) as part of a marketing drive to bring the sport to audiences on every continent. Its women's counterpart was the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix. National teams played a preliminary intercontinental round in pools, with rotating host cities, each team meeting the others in its pool home and away, and the leading teams then advanced to a final round whose format varied over the years, later settling on quarterfinal pools followed by semifinals and a final. Italy dominated the first decade, winning eight of the first eleven editions, and Brazil took most titles in the 2000s, with Russia, the Netherlands, Cuba and the United States each winning at least once. From 2018 the World League and the World Grand Prix were replaced by the men's and women's Nations Leagues and the Challenger Cups.