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1996 FIVB Volleyball World League

volleyball competition held in Netherlands (Final)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ920533 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1996 FIVB Volleyball World League was the seventh edition of the annual men's international volleyball tournament, played by 11 countries from 10 May to 29 June 1996. The Final Round was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Pools composition

Intercontinental round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Final round

Venue: Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Pool play

Teams from the same pool of Intercontinental Round will not play.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1996 FIVB Volleyball World League” is volleyball competition held in Netherlands (Final). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through FIVB, Volleyball and World, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, FIVB, Volleyball and World is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1996 FIVB Volleyball World League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.