The 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League was the first edition of the newly-rebranded

AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League The AVC Women's Champions League, previously the AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament (between 1999 and 2002) and Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship (between 2004–2024), is an annual continental club volleyball competition organized by the ...

and the 25th overall edition of the formerly named Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, an annual international women's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

club tournament organized by the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...

(AVC) with the

Philippine National Volleyball Federation The Philippine National Volleyball Federation Inc. (PNVF), also known as Volleyball Philippines, is the national sport association for volleyball in the Philippines. It is recognized by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), the Asian Volley ...

(PNVF) and the

Premier Volleyball League The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is the top-level professional women's volleyball league in the Philippines organized by the Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The PVL was established in 2004 as the inter-collegiate Shakey's V-League (SV ...

(PVL). It was held at the

PhilSports Arena The Philippine Institute of Sports Multi-Purpose Arena or PhilSports Arena is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located inside the PhilSports Complex in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was formerly known as the University of Life Th ...

Pasig Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (), is a highly-urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 803,159 people. It is located along the eastern border of Metro Mani ...

, Philippines from 20 to 27 April 2025. Zhetysu VC won the tournament for the first time by beating

VTV Bình Điền Long An VTV Bình Điền Long An is a Vietnamese women's volleyball team from Long An, Vietnam. The club was founded in 1986 and plays in the Volleyball Vietnam League, Vietnam League. History The team started as ''Long An Textile Women's Volleyball Cl ...

in the final and Karina Denisova named the

MVP MVP most commonly refers to: * Most valuable player, an award, typically for the best performing player in a sport or competition * Minimum viable product, a concept for feature estimating used in business and engineering MVP may also refer to: ...

. Both teams qualified for the

2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat pri ...

. Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC claimed the bronze against BAIC Motor Volleyball Club in the 3rd place match.

Host selection

In January 2025, South Korea and Vietnam were originally considered as possible options to be the hosts. The next month, the PNVF announced that the Philippines would be the official host nation of the tournament.

Participating teams

Teams by zonal association

Entrant teams

The AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League is an invitational tournament with a maximum of twelve teams allowed to enter. As the hosts, the Philippines were initially allowed to enter two teams. The hosts were later granted a

wild card Wild card most commonly refers to: * Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games * Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal pla ...

slot to field a third team, in replacement of Japan's withdrawal from the tournament. The following teams took part in the tournament.

Squads

With the rebranded tournament, each team can now have a maximum of three foreign players in its roster that can play at any time. Previously, teams can only have two foreign players and only one of which can play at a time.

Pools composition

For the first time since the 2016 edition, the teams were split into four pools with three teams each. The draw of lots took place at The Grand Fourwings Hotel Bangkok on 12 March 2025. Teams were seeded in the first position of each pool following the serpentine system according to their

FIVB Senior World Rankings The FIVB Senior World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their ...

as of 8 January 2025. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. The host's two teams and the top two countries are automatically seeded as the first teams of the four pools. As the Philippines have fielded a third team as a

, it will be in the pot in accordance with the country's current FIVB ranking. ;Drawing results

Venue

The tournament will take place in

Metro Manila Metropolitan Manila ( ), commonly shortened to Metro Manila and formally the National Capital Region (NCR; ), is the capital region and largest List of metropolitan areas in the Philippines, metropolitan area of the Philippines. Located ...

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 AVC 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

* All times are

Philippine Standard Time Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; ), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines. The country only uses a single time zone, at an UTC offset, offset of UTC+08:00, but has used dayligh ...

( UTC+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

* All times are

( UTC+08:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : ( Zhetysu VC) *Best Setter : ( Zhetysu VC) *Best Outside Spikers : (

) : ( Zhetysu VC) *Best Middle Blockers : ( Zhetysu VC) : ( Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC) *Best Opposite Spiker : (

) *Best Libero : (

)

Notes

References

External links

* * at Volleyball World {{DEFAULTSORT:AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League, 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League 2025 in Philippine sport 2025 in women's volleyball April 2025 sports events in Asia International volleyball competitions hosted by the Philippines Women's sports competitions in the Philippines