FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
Current season, competition or edition: 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
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| Sport | Volleyball |
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| Founded | 1949 |
| Inaugural season | 1949 |
| CEO |
 Ary Graça
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| No. of teams | 24 (Finals) |
| Continent | International (FIVB) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 Poland (2nd title) |
| Most titles |
 Russia (6 titles) |
| Official website | FIVB Volleyball World Championships |
The FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1962 they have been awarded every four years. The current champion is Poland, which won its second title at the 2014 tournament in home soil.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Championship Finals. 24 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 18 World Championship tournaments have been won by seven different national teams. Russia (as Soviet Union) have won six times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Championship winners are Brazil and Italy, with three titles each; Czech Republic as (Czechoslovakia) and Poland, with two titles each; and Germany as (East Germany), and United States, with one title each.
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