Background
The 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship was the 20th edition of the tournament. It was held in four cities of Thailand from 22 August to 7 September 2025, and the first edition under the two-year cycles in odd-numbered years with an expanded format featuring 32 teams. It was also the first World Championship to be hosted in Southeast Asia.
The host country Thailand and the defending champion Serbia qualified automatically. [3] [4] [5] Meanwhile, the other fifteen teams (three per confederation) qualified through the Continental Championships in 2023. The remaining fifteen places (twelve from CEV and three from NORCECA) were allocated to the highest-ranked teams according to the FIVB World Rankings at the end of August 2024. Therefore, all of the teams were from all confederations with sixteen from CEV, six from NORCECA, four from AVC, three from CAVB, and another three from CSV.
Of the 32 teams qualified, 21 teams were returning after appearing in the 2022 edition. Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Vietnam made their World Championship debut. Meanwhile, France, Spain, Ukraine, Greece and Egypt returned to the tournament after long absences, having last participated in 1974, 1982, 1994, 2002 and 2006, respectively. Additionally, Cuba and Mexico returned to the tournament after missing the 2022 edition. In contrast, South Korea, Kazakhstan and Croatia, all of whom qualified for the 2022 edition, failed to qualify due to insufficient rankings.
The defending champions Serbia finished at the second in their preliminary pool behind Japan, and were eliminated by the Netherlands in the round of 16. [6] Italy reached the finals in 2002 and 2018, winning the title in the former. [7] Meanwhile, Turkey have never reached the finals. [8]
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