The schedule has been sanctioned by the International Volleyball Federation for the men's and women's competitions.

Hosts Australia will be joined in Pool A of the men's competition by Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis and Fiji.

Canada, Scotland, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka make up Pool B, while England, New Zealand, Cyprus and Mozambique are in Pool C.

The women's event will see the host nation take on Grenada, Scotland and Cyprus in Pool A, with top seeds Canada joined by Fiji, England and Trinidad and Tobago in Pool B.

New Zealand, Singapore, Rwanda and Vanuatu will contest Pool C.

The hosts will feature on the opening day of the competition, with their women's team taking on Cyprus, while their men's side meet Fiji.

Each nation will play three matches during the preliminary stage of the competition.

The top two highest-ranked teams from each pool and the two best third-ranked teams will advance to the quarter final phase.

"It is an exciting day for all the competing nations and beach volleyball fans around the world to learn the full match schedule for Gold Coast 2018," said Louise Martin, Commonwealth Games Federation President.

"We are proud to see beach volleyball being contested at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in history at Gold Coast 2018 - this is another great milestone in what is a Commonwealth Games of many 'firsts'.

"It's also extremely pleasing to see such strong diversity and representation from all regions of the Commonwealth, with teams from Oceania, Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean taking part in beach volleyball."

The pool phase will take place from April 6 to 9, with the knock-out stages held until April 12.

Tickets for the competition have already sold out, with more than 60,000 placed on sale.

Gold Coast 2018 said premium hospitality experiences remain available for the beach volleyball and seven other sports, however.

Beach volleyball will take place in Coolangatta, with a temporary venue constructed in readiness for the Games.

"Construction of the Coolangatta venue, which will host 4,000 spectators for seven exciting days of the beach volleyball competition at Gold Coast 2018, is on time and on budget," said Mark Peters, Gold Coast 2018 chief executive.

"We know the intensity of the competition and the wonderful location of the venue at the Coolangatta Beachfront will ensure beach volleyball is one of the real highlights of Gold Coast 2018."

The Games are scheduled to take place from April 4 to 15.

The schedule can be found here.