The motion planning and tracking control techniques of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) are fundamentally sig-nificant for efficient and robust UUV navigation, which is crucial for underwater rescue, facility maintenance, marineresource exploration, aquatic recreation, etc. Studies on UUV motion planning and tracking control have been grow-ing rapidly worldwide, which are usually sorted into the following topics: task assignment of the multi-UUV system,UUV path planning, and UUV trajectory tracking. This paper provides a comprehensive review of conventional andintelligent technologies for motion planning and tracking control of UUVs. Analysis of the benefits and drawbacksof these various methodologies in literature is presented. In addition, the challenges and prospects of UUV motionplanning and tracking control are provided as possible developments for future research.