HOST CITY: 2026 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship

Sao Paulo, Brazil

From December 8 to 13, 2026, Brazil hosts the FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship for the fourth time in history, and it has always been in the same city – Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo welcomed the inaugural edition of the competition back in 1991, the third edition in 1994, and the most recent edition in 2025. In 1991, the city also organized the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship.

Over the years, Sao Paulo has also hosted matches of other major international volleyball competitions, such as the FIVB Women’s and Men's Volleyball World Championships, the FIVB Volleyball World League, the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix and the CSV Women’s and Men’s Volleyball South American Championships, as well as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.

The city hosts events of major international importance in other sports as well. Volleyball is one of the most popular sports in Sao Paulo, along with soccer, Formula One, basketball and tennis.

Sao Paulo is the capital city of the state of the same name. The primary language in this ethnically diverse city is Portuguese. With about 12 million inhabitants in the municipal area, it is the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere, as well as in the Southern Hemisphere. In fact, it is the largest urban area by population outside Asia. The city exerts international influence in commerce, finance, culture, gastronomy, arts, fashion, technology, entertainment and media. The city's Latin motto is “Non ducor, duco”, which translates as "I am not led, I lead".

Founded in 1554, Sao Paulo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Americas.

The Tropic of Capricorn passes through northern Sao Paulo. The city is on a plateau placed near the region known as the Brazilian Highlands, with an average elevation of around 799 meters above sea level, although being at a distance of only about 70 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean. Sao Paulo features a humid subtropical climate. The daily mean temperature in December is 22.3°C.

The place of origin and/or disseminator of countless artistic, cultural and gastronomic expressions, such as the caipira culture and cuisine, sertanejo music, Brazilian hip-hop and rock, and samba paulista, and the culinary matrix of creations like bauru, beirute, calabresa, coxinha, dadinho, parmegiana, pastel de feira, and picanha, the city is one of the main cultural, gastronomic and entertainment hubs in the world. The cuisine of the region is a tourist attraction.

Sao Paulo is home to monuments, parks, and museums, such as the Latin American Memorial, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Pinacoteca, Cinemateca, Itau Cultural, Museum of Ipiranga, Catavento Museum, Football Museum, Museum of the Portuguese Language, the Museum of Image and Sound. The city has a nightlife that is considered one of the best in the country, and is an international hub of highly active and diverse nightlife with bars, dance bars and nightclubs, as well as cinemas, theaters, museums and cultural centers. Sao Paulo has many neighborhoods and buildings of historical value. It also houses one of the top five zoos in the world, the Sao Paulo Zoo.

The Sao Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport, also known as Cumbica, is 25 km northeast of the Sao Paulo city center, in the neighboring city of Guarulhos. Sao Paulo has an urban rail transit system (Sao Paulo Metro and Sao Paulo Metropolitan Trains) that serves 184 stations and has 377 km of track, forming the largest metropolitan rail transportation network in Latin America. Bus transportation (government and private) is composed of 17,000 buses (including about 290 trolley buses).