[2][3] At same time, FIVB disqualified Russia, who would have been defending champions, and Belarus from future official events due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

[5] However, in January 2023, FIVB confirmed an increase in participating teams from 20 to 24 in order to "facilitate the co-hosting".

[8][9][10] The slot allocation was setted as follow:[5] The draw for the pools composition was held on 31 March 2023 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The hosts Croatia and Hungary and the top six teams of the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking in force at that time (as of 24 October 2022)[update] were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system.

FIVB reserved the right to seed the host teams as heads of pools A and B regardless of their position in the World Ranking.