It would be turned into a qualifying event for the Olympic Games in 1991.įollowing Libaud's retirement and the election of Mexican Rubén Acosta Hernandez for the position of president in 1984, the FIVB moved its headquarters from Paris, France to Lausanne, Switzerland and intensified to an unprecedented level its policy of promoting volleyball on a worldwide basis. Later in that year (1969), a new international event, the World Cup was introduced. By this time, the number of national federations affiliated to the FIVB had grown to 89. In 1964, the IOC endorsed the addition of volleyball to the Olympic programme. In 1952, a women's version of the tournament was also introduced. One of the main goals of the 1947 Congress was achieved two years later with the establishment of the first international major volleyball event, the World Championship. The first Asia volleyball championship was held at Tokyo (Japan ) in 1995 and in this championship India had beaten Japan in final. Fourteen national federations representing five different continents attended the meetings where, between 18 and 20 April, the entity was officially formed, having Frenchman Paul Libaud as first president. Initial discussions eventually lead to the installation of a Constitutive Congress in 1947. In the late 1940s, some of the European national federations began to address the issue of creating an international governing body for the sport of volleyball. The FIVB was founded in France in April 1947.
FIVB Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.īefore the FIVB was founded volleyball was part of the International Amateur Handball Federation.
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