A total of four vacancies per gender will be at stake this coming May 7-12 as a series of qualification tournaments will be held to fill in the spots assigned to Europe for the 2013 FIVB Junior Volleyball World Championship coming up later this summer. With the hosting countries and the 2012 European champions – Turkey and Italy (men) plus the Czech Republic and Turkey (women) – already pre-qualified, the winners of the various qualifying events coming up this May will eventually join the World Champs that are scheduled for June 21-30 in Brno and Prostejov (women) and for August 22-September 1 (men) in Ankara and Izmir.
Teams were distributed across the four tournaments according to the serpentine system and the composition of the various Pools reads as follows:
Men
Pool A: Russia (org.), Greece, Denmark, Montenegro, Austria
Pool B: Belgium, Poland, France (org.), Portugal, Latvia
Pool C: Bulgaria (org.), Germany, Estonia, Romania, Israel
Pool D: Serbia (org.), Spain, Slovakia, Finland, Czech Republic, Croatia
Women
Pool A: Serbia (org.), Belgium, France, Portugal, Denmark
Pool B: Italy (org.), Slovakia, Finland, Spain
Pool C: Germany, Bulgaria (org.), Croatia, Greece, Latvia
Pool D: Russia (org.), Poland, Romania, Slovenia
