| Competition: | FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship |
| Continent: | World |
| Gender: | women |
| Type: | 21 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Dates: | 7–17 August 2025 |
| Teams: | 24 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Host: | Indonesia |
| City: | Surabaya |
| Last: | 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship |
| Next: | 2027 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship |
The 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship will be the 23rd edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 21 of the members of the French: [[Fédération Internationale de Volleyball]] (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It will be held in Indonesia from 4 to 17 August 2024.[1]
Starting with this edition, the tournament will be expanded to include 24 teams instead of the 16 teams of previous editions following the decision adopted by FIVB in June 2023.[2]
On 28 March 2024, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2025 (i.e., U19 Boys' and Girls' World Championships and U21 Men's and Women's World Championships).[3] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 30 April 2024, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).[4]
On 10 September 2024, FIVB announced that Indonesia was selected as the host for the 2024 Girls' U21 World Championship.[5]
A total of 24 national teams will qualify for the final tournament.[4] In addition to the host team and the defending champions who qualified automatically, 21 other teams will qualify through five separate continental competitions which were required to be held no later than 31 December 2024. Two remaining teams will enter the tournament via the Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking (as of 31 December 2024) among the teams not yet qualified.
The slot allocation per confederation was set as follows:[4]
| Confederation | Qualifying tournament | Team qualified | Appearances | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Last | |||||
| AVC | Host nation | 1st | Debut | None | ||
| Defending champions | 22nd | 1977 | 2023 | (1995, 2013, 2017, 2023) | ||
| 2024 Asian Women's U20 Championship | 14th | 1977 | 2011 | (1977, 1981) | ||
| 19th | 1977 | 2023 | (2019) | |||
| 8th | 1995 | 2023 | Eighth place (2007) | |||
| 1st | Debut | None | ||||
| CAVB | 2024 Women's U20 African Nations Championship | 4th | 1995 | 2023 | (1995) | |
| 10th | 2005 | 2023 | 2005 | |||
| 5th | 1993 | 2013 | 2001 | |||
| CEV | 2024 Women's U20 European Championship | 12th | 1999 | 2023 | (2017, 2019) | |
| 18th | 1985 | 2023 | (2011, 2021) | |||
| 13th | 1991 | 2023 | (2003) | |||
| 8th | 1985 | 2017 | (2009) | |||
| 9th2 | 1985 | 2015 | (1991, 1997) | |||
| 4th | 2001 | 2007 | (2001) | |||
| Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking | 11th3 | 1997 | 2023 | (2005, 2021) | ||
| CSV | 2024 Women's U21 South American Championship | 23rd | 1977 | 2023 | (1987, 1989, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007) | |
| 14th | 1977 | 2023 | (2001) | |||
| 1st | Debut | None | ||||
| NORCECA | 2024 Women's U21 NORCECA Championship | 13rd | 1977 | 2023 | Fourth place (2011, 2007) | |
| 10th | 1981 | 2021 | Eighth place (2005) | |||
| 14th | 1995 | 2023 | (2015) | |||
| 6th | 1977 | 1999 | Seventh place (1977) | |||
| Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking | 13th | 1977 | 2023 | (1981) |
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In June 2023 during a three-day meeting in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the FIVB Board of Administration approved the proposal made by its Volleyball Council to increase the number of participating teams to 24 in its Age Group World Championships (U19 and U21 in both genders).[6] [2] Consequently, the distribution of quotas by confederation for the Women's U21 World Championship was modified regarding previous editions, ensuring one automatic quota for the defending champion and assigning two quotas based on the corresponding FIVB Age Group World Ranking.
The new competition formula was in line with the one adopted for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, which was also contested by 24 teams.[7]
The draw for the pools composition will held on 4 December 2024 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.[8] The 24 participating teams will be split into four single round-robin pools of six with the host nations and the reigning world champions receiving the highest seeds. The rest of the qualified teams are seeded in a serpentine system based on their positions in the respective FIVB World Rankings.[9]
According to the new competition format, the top four teams from the final standings in each pool will advance to the eighthfinals, while the remaining two will continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from 17th to 24th.