The 2025 AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League was the first edition of the newly-rebranded AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League and the 25th overall edition of the formerly named Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship, an annual international men's

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club tournament organized by the

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(AVC) with the

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(JVA) and the SV.League (SVL). It was held at the Panasonic Arena in

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and Shimadzu Arena Kyoto in

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from 11 to 18 May 2025.

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won the tournament for the first time by beating

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in the final and

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named the

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. Both teams qualified for the 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball Club World Championship. Suntory Sunbirds Osaka claimed the bronze against

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in the 3rd place match.

Host selection

In February 2025, JVA announced that Japan would be the host nation of the tournament.

Participating teams

Teams by zonal association

Entrant teams

The first AVC Men's Champions League is an invitational tournament with a maximum of twelve teams allowed to enter. As hosts, Japan was allowed to enter two teams. The following teams are expected to take part in 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

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

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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. ;Drawing results

Venues

The tournament is hosted in

and

in the

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region.

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

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( UTC+09:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

* All times are

( UTC+09:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : (

) *Best Setter : (

) *Best Outside Spikers : (

) : ( Suntory Sunbirds Osaka) *Best Middle Blockers : (

) : (

) *Best Opposite Spiker : (

) *Best Libero : (

)

Notes

References

External links

* * at Volleyball World {{DEFAULTSORT:AVC Men's Champions League, 2025 AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League 2025 in Japanese sport 2025 in men's volleyball International volleyball competitions hosted by Japan May 2025 sports events in Japan Men's sports competitions in Japan