2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship explained
| Competition: | FIVB Women's World Championship |
| Gender: | women |
| Continent: | World |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Host: | Thailand |
| Dates: | TBA |
| Teams: | 32 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Venues: | 4 |
| Cities: | 4 |
| Last: | 2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship |
| Next: | 2027 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship |
The 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship will be the 20th staging of the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the French: [[Fédération Internationale de Volleyball]] (FIVB). The tournament will take place in Thailand.
Starting from this staging, the World Championship will be expanded to include 32 teams, increasing from 24 teams.[1] The tournament will henceforth also be held biennially instead of quadrennially.[2]
Host selection
At least five FIVB member associations have expressed interest in bidding for the hosting of the 2025 championship. As 2022, multiple hosts could be selected.[3] Philippines initially bid but later withdrew as "there were a lot of procedures and changes".[4] Vietnam withdrawn its bid on 29 August 2024 due to financial reasons.[5]
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- [7] (withdrew due to financial reasons)
On 30 August 2024, FIVB announced that Thailand will host the tournament.[8]
Qualification
See main article: 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship qualification. The host country Thailand automatically qualified for the competition as well as the defending champions Serbia. The top three teams from each of the 2023 Continental Championships secured qualification. The final 15 places belonged to top 15 teams as per FIVB World Ranking who had not yet qualified.[9]
Format
Pool phase
In the pool phase, the 32 teams will spread across eight pools of four teams playing in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each pool then advance to the direct elimination phase.
Direct elimination phase
In the direct elimination phase, the 16 teams will be matched up into eight matches in a knock-out stage: the winners will advance to the next stage, and the losers will be eliminated from the competition.
Pools composition
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Pool standing procedure
- Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
- In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
- Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
- Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
- Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
- If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
- Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
- Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
- If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Preliminary round
Pool H
Final round
Final
Final standing
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Awards
Statistics leaders
Statistics leaders correct as of preliminary round.
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See also
Notes and References
- FIVB Volleyball World Championships to expand to 32-teams per gender and enhance competition formula . 9 July 2023 . . 15 October 2022 . 9 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230709093203/https://www.fivb.com/en/media/news_pressrelease/fivb-volleyball-world-championships-to-expand-to?id=100250 . live .
- All you need to know about the 2025-2028 volleyball calendar! . 9 July 2023 . . 5 July 2023 . 17 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230717104541/https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/all-you-need-to-know-about-the?id=100934 . live .
- Web site: Fuertes Jr. . Rommel . PNVF to bid for hosting of 2025 FIVB Women's World Championship . 29 February 2024 . . 9 July 2023 . 29 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240229125351/https://sports.inquirer.net/518134/pnvf-to-bid-for-hosting-of-2025-fivb-womens-world-championship . live .
- Web site: Agcaoili . Lance . PH out of FIVB women's worlds host bidding race . 28 March 2024 . . 26 March 2024 . 28 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240328045807/https://sports.inquirer.net/559130/ph-out-of-fivb-womens-worlds-host-bidding-race . live .
- Web site: https://www.thairath.co.th/sport/worldsport/volleyball/2811344#aWQ9NjI2YTRhNTIxOTU1MmMwMDEyMTE5YWE4JnBvcz0xJnJ1bGU9MCZjb250ZW50X3NpdGU9dGhhaXJhdGgtb25saW5l . th:ส.วอลเลย์บอลเวียดนาม ไม่สู้จัด "ชิงแชมป์โลก 2025" FIVB มาตรฐานสูง ต้องใช้งบ 100 ล้าน . Vietnam Volleyball Association not competing to organize the "2025 FIVB World Championship", high standards, requires a budget of 100 million . . 29 August 2024 . th . 30 August 2024 . August 29, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240830000707/https://www.thairath.co.th/sport/worldsport/volleyball/2811344#aWQ9NjI2YTRhNTIxOTU1MmMwMDEyMTE5YWE4JnBvcz0xJnJ1bGU9MCZjb250ZW50X3NpdGU9dGhhaXJhdGgtb25saW5l . live.
- Web site: https://www.thairath.co.th/sport/worldsport/volleyball/2811110 . th:วงในลูกยางโลก เผย ส.วอลเลย์บอลไทย วางแผนจัด "ชิงแชมป์โลก 2025" ชาติเดียว ไม่เอาเจ้าภาพร่วม . Insiders in the world of volleyball reveal that the Thai Volleyball Association plans to organize the "2025 World Championship" as a single country, without a joint host . . 29 August 2024 . th . August 28, 2024 . 29 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240829235202/https://www.thairath.co.th/sport/worldsport/volleyball/2811110 . live.
- Web site: Thailand wants to co-host volleyball women's world champs 2025 . Vietnam Plus . 29 February 2024 . 24 November 2023 . 5 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240905124819/https://en.vietnamplus.vn/thailand-wants-to-co-host-volleyball-womens-world-champs-2025-post271824.vnp . live .
- Web site: Thailand to host FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship 2025! – FIVB. 30 August 2024. 30 August 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240830102212/https://www.fivb.com/thailand-to-host-fivb-volleyball-womens-world-championship-2025/. live.
- News: Volleyball Calendar 2025-2028 Approved By The FIVB Board Of Administration . 25 July 2023 . 22 June 2023 . 29 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230629203821/https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/volleyball-calendar-2025-2028-approved-by-the-fivb?id=100917 . live .
