2025 CEV U16 Volleyball European Championship

This article is about the men's tournament. For the women's tournament, see 2025 Women's U16 European Volleyball Championship.

2025 CEV U16 Volleyball European Championship

Tournament details
Host nation	Armenia
City	Yerevan
Dates	23 July – 3 August 2025
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Italy (3rd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	France
Official website
www.cev.eu
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The 2025 CEV U16 Volleyball European Championship was the 5th edition of the CEV U16 Volleyball European Championship, organized by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. The tournament was played in Yerevan, Armenia, from 23 July to 3 August 2025. Italy won the competition for the third time. The top seven teams of the tournament qualified for the 2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship in Qatar as the CEV representatives.

Players born on or after 1 January 2010 were eligible to participate.

Host selection

Armenia were given the hosting rights on 12 October 2022. ^[1]

Qualification

Means of qualification		Qualifier
Host country		Armenia
Qualification 1st round	BVA	Turkey
	EEVZA	Poland
	MEVZA	Czech Republic
	WEVZA	France
Qualification 2nd round	Pool A	Bulgaria   Latvia
	Pool B	Spain   Austria
	Pool C	Ukraine   Serbia
	Pool D	Hungary   Slovenia   Romania
	Pool E	Italy   Greece

Draw

The draw of the group stage pools was held on 29 April 2025 in Luxembourg. ^[2]

Group stage

All times are local (Armenia Time; UTC+4).

Pool I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Poland	7	7	0	19	21	4	5.250	585	430	1.360	Semifinals
2	Spain	7	6	1	18	20	7	2.857	620	507	1.223
3	Romania	7	4	3	12	12	10	1.200	494	500	0.988
4	Latvia	7	4	3	12	12	11	1.091	492	512	0.961
5	Greece	7	3	4	10	14	12	1.167	584	573	1.019
6	Slovenia	7	2	5	8	11	15	0.733	550	572	0.962
7	Austria	7	2	5	5	7	18	0.389	533	584	0.913
8	Armenia (H)	7	0	7	0	1	21	0.048	367	547	0.671

Source: CEV
(H) Host

Pool II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	France	7	7	0	18	21	8	2.625	667	580	1.150	Semifinals
2	Italy	7	6	1	17	20	8	2.500	644	552	1.167
3	Czech Republic	7	5	2	15	17	9	1.889	585	518	1.129
4	Turkey	7	4	3	14	16	12	1.333	618	603	1.025
5	Bulgaria	7	3	4	9	11	14	0.786	520	568	0.915
6	Ukraine	7	2	5	7	11	15	0.733	574	584	0.983
7	Serbia	7	1	6	4	7	19	0.368	519	611	0.849
8	Hungary	7	0	7	0	3	21	0.143	474	585	0.810

Source: CEV

Final Four

	Semifinals				Final
	2 August
	Poland	1
					3 August
	Italy	3
					Italy	3
	2 August
					Spain	1
	France	2
	Spain	3
					3rd place match
					3 August
					Poland	1
					France	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
2 August	16:30	Poland	1–3	Italy	19–25	25–16	19–25	20–25		83–91	Report
2 August	19:00	France	2–3	Spain	22–25	13–25	25–20	25–16	12–15	97–101	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
3 August	16:30	Poland	1–3	France	15–25	25–22	22–25	16–25		78–97	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
3 August	19:00	Italy	3–1	Spain	25–21	18–25	25–23	25–19		93–88	Report

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Italy
	Spain
	France
4	Poland
5	Czech Republic
6	Romania
7	Turkey
8	Latvia
9	Greece
10	Bulgaria
11	Slovenia
12	Ukraine
13	Austria
14	Serbia
15	Hungary
16	Armenia

	Qualified for the 2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship
	Qualified for the 2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship as defending champions

References

1. "Age-group Championships 2023-2025 to break new ground for European Volleyball". www.cev.eu.
2. "Pools drawn for #EuroVolleyU16W and #EuroVolleyU16M Finals". www.cev.eu.

External links

• Official website of CEV