2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship

The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship will be the 21st staging of the FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the (FIVB). The tournament will take place in the Philippines from 12 to 28 September 2025 in Pasay and Quezon City, Metro Manila.

Starting from this staging, the World Championship will be expanded to include 32 teams, increasing from 24 teams. The tournament will thus also be held biannually instead of quadrennially.

Host selection

Around 31 countries expressed interest to host the tournament. This figure was reduced to three final candidates: Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.
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On 20 March 2024, FIVB announced that the Philippines will host the tournament.

Qualification

The host country Philippines qualified for the competition as well as the defending champions Italy. 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.

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 knock-out stage: the winners will advance to the next stage, and the losers will be eliminated from the competition.

Pools composition

The 32 teams were distributed to eight pools of four teams. The draw of lots took place at Solaire Hotel in Parañaque on 14 September 2024. Rankings of teams are shown in brackets.

The host and the top seven teams are automatically seeded as the first teams of the eight pools.

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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.

Venues

The tournament will have two venues in two cities in Metro Manila. Both the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay and the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City were the first two confirmed locations for the championship. There were possibilities for the finals to be held at the Mall of Asia Arena due to its capacity and the technical reasons. Other host cities would be confirmed later. The former was confirmed to be the venue for the final round matches.

Additionally the Philsports Arena in Pasig, the Filoil EcoOil Centre in San Juan, and the Ninoy Aquino Stadium and Rizal Memorial Coliseum within the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila are named as official training venues for the participating teams.

Preliminary round

* All times are Philippine Standard Time ( UTC+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

* All times are Philippine Standard Time ( UTC+08:00).

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

* Most valuable player
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* Best setter
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* Best outside spikers
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* Best opposite spiker
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* Best middle blockers
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* Best libero
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Statistics leaders

''Statistics leaders correct as of preliminary round.''

Marketing

Philippines national team players Eya Laure and Bryan Bagunas were named as official ambassadors and Filipino indie band Ben&Ben was named as the official music partner in March 2025. The band's 2024 song "Triumph" will also be used as the official song.

Broadcasting rights

Notes

See also

* 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship

References

External links

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* at Volleyball World

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