2025 Men's European Volleyball League

2025 Men's European Volleyball League

Tournament details
Dates	6 June – 6 July
Teams	20
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The 2025 Men's European Volleyball League was the 21st edition of the annual Men's European Volleyball League, which featured men's national volleyball teams from 20 European countries.

The tournament had two divisions: the Golden League, which featured 12 teams, and the Silver League, which featured 8 teams. ^{[1] [2]}

Pools composition

Teams were seeded according to their European Ranking for national teams as of 30 August 2024. Rankings are shown in brackets.

Golden League

The numbers in brackets indicated their CEV rankings.

League phase
Czech Republic (10)
Portugal (11)
Romania (13)
Finland (14)
Croatia (16)
Greece (17)
Spain (18)
Latvia (19)
Slovakia (21)
North Macedonia (23)
Montenegro (25)
Israel (29)

Silver League

League phase
Austria (26)
Hungary (27)
Sweden (30)
Georgia (33)
Faroe Islands (34)
Luxembourg (35)
Iceland (36)
Azerbaijan (37)

Golden League

2025 Men's European Golden League

Tournament details
Host nation	Czech Republic (final four)
Dates	6 June – 6 July
Teams	12
Champions	Finland (1st title)
Runners-up	Czech Republic
Third place	Israel
Fourth place	Greece
Tournament awards
MVP	Joonas Jokela
Tournament statistics
Matches played	40
Official website
European Golden League
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Schedule

The schedule was as follows: ^[1]

Round	Round date
Week 1	6–8 June 2025
Week 2	13–15 June 2025
Week 3	19–22 June 2025
Final four	5–6 July 2025

Tournament schedule

Week 1
Tournament 1 Strumica [a]	Tournament 2 Bratislava	Tournament 3 Arta	Tournament 4 Mioveni
Israel (12) (H)   Czech Republic (1)   Croatia (5)	Slovakia (9) (H)   Finland (4)   North Macedonia (10)	Greece (6) (H)   Portugal (2)   Spain (7)	Romania (3) (H)   Latvia (8)   Montenegro (11)
Week 2
Tournament 5 Podgorica	Tournament 6 Daugavpils	Tournament 7 Zadar	Tournament 8 Loulé
Montenegro (11) (H)   Czech Republic (1)   Finland (4)	Latvia (8) (H)   Greece (6)   North Macedonia (10)	Croatia (5) (H)   Romania (3)   Spain (7)	Portugal (2) (H)   Slovakia (9)   Israel (12)
Week 3
Tournament 9 Strumica	Tournament 10 Lugo	Tournament 11 Nokia	Tournament 12 Kutná Hora
North Macedonia (10) (H)   Montenegro (11)   Israel (12)	Spain (7) (H)   Latvia (8)   Slovakia (9)	Finland (4) (H)   Croatia (5)   Greece (6)	Czech Republic (1) (H)   Portugal (2)   Romania (3)

1. Due to the Gaza war, Israel's tournament will be held at a neutral venue.

Tiebreaker

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. 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
3. 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.

League round

• All times are local.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification or relegation
1	Israel	6	6	0	17	18	6	3.000	582	500	1.164	Golden League Final four
2	Greece	6	5	1	16	17	7	2.429	583	536	1.088
3	Finland	6	5	1	15	16	4	4.000	482	381	1.265
4	Romania	6	5	1	15	17	6	2.833	546	493	1.108
5	Spain	6	4	2	11	13	10	1.300	521	514	1.014
6	Czech Republic [a]	6	3	3	8	12	12	1.000	556	555	1.002	Golden League Final four
7	Portugal	6	2	4	7	11	14	0.786	565	566	0.998
8	Slovakia	6	2	4	7	10	13	0.769	478	536	0.892
9	North Macedonia	6	2	4	5	6	14	0.429	427	469	0.910
10	Croatia	6	1	5	3	8	17	0.471	547	601	0.910
11	Latvia	6	1	5	3	7	17	0.412	522	551	0.947
12	Montenegro	6	0	6	1	3	18	0.167	401	508	0.789	Relegation to Silver League

Source: CEV
Notes:

1. Qualified as final four host

Week 1

Tournament 1

• Venue: Park Sports Hall, Strumica, North Macedonia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	Croatia	1–3	Israel	23–25	26–24	22–25	22–25		93–99	Report
7 Jun	19:00	Czech Republic	3–1	Croatia	25–23	23–25	25–23	25–20		98–91	Report
8 Jun	19:00	Israel	3–1	Czech Republic	25–27	25–23	25–19	25–22		100–91	Report

Tournament 2

• Venue: Gopass Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	17:00	Finland	3–0	Slovakia	25–21	25–12	25–13			75–46	Report
7 Jun	15:00	North Macedonia	0–3	Finland	20–25	15–25	19–25			54–75	Report
8 Jun	15:00	Slovakia	3–0	North Macedonia	25–21	25–22	25–23			75–66	Report

Tournament 3

• Venue: T9 Indoor Sport Hall Kostakioi, Arta, Greece

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	Spain	1–3	Greece	20–25	30–28	18–25	22–25		90–103	Report
7 Jun	19:00	Portugal	1–3	Spain	21–25	18–25	25–19	24–26		88–95	Report
8 Jun	19:00	Greece	3–1	Portugal	16–25	25–23	25–23	25–23		91–94	Report

Tournament 4

• Venue: Mioveni Sports Hall, Mioveni, Romania

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:30	Montenegro	0–3	Romania	19–25	16–25	19–25			54–75	Report
7 Jun	19:30	Latvia	3–2	Montenegro	22–25	25–21	25–19	21–25	15–10	108–100	Report
8 Jun	19:30	Romania	3–0	Latvia	25–23	25–20	25–21			75–64	Report

Week 2

Tournament 5

• Venue: Verde Complex, Podgorica, Montenegro

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	19:00	Czech Republic	3–0	Montenegro	25–23	25–22	25–14			75–59	Report
14 Jun	19:00	Finland	3–1	Czech Republic	20–25	25–14	25–22	25–23		95–84	Report
15 Jun	19:00	Montenegro	0–3	Finland	18–25	10–25	23–25			51–75	Report

Tournament 6

• Venue: Daugavpils Olympic Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	20:00	North Macedonia	3–2	Latvia	18–25	25–19	20–25	25–23	25–23	113–115	Report
14 Jun	18:00	Greece	3–0	North Macedonia	25–22	25–21	25–20			75–63	Report
15 Jun	16:00	Latvia	1–3	Greece	25–23	23–25	17–25	22–25		87–98	Report

Tournament 7

• Venue: Krešimir Ćosić Hall, Zadar, Croatia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	19:30	Spain	3–1	Croatia	25–23	23–25	25–22	25–19		98–89	Report
14 Jun	19:30	Romania	3–0	Spain	25–19	25–20	25–20			75–59	Report
15 Jun	19:30	Croatia	2–3	Romania	21–25	22–25	29–27	25–20	14–16	111–113	Report

Tournament 8

• Venue: Pavilhão Municipal Professor Joaquim Vairinhos, Loulé, Portugal

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	21:00	Slovakia	1–3	Portugal	16–25	29–27	23–25	16–25		84–102	Report
14 Jun	17:00	Israel	3–1	Slovakia	25–23	25–18	23–25	25–15		98–81	Report
15 Jun	15:00	Portugal	2–3	Israel	13–25	18–25	25–20	26–24	14–16	96–110	Report

Week 3

Tournament 9

• Venue: Park Sports Hall, Strumica, North Macedonia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Jun	20:00	Israel	3–0	North Macedonia	25–22	25–16	25–18			75–56	Report
21 Jun	20:00	Montenegro	1–3	Israel	27–25	20–25	15–25	21–25		83–100	Report
22 Jun	20:00	North Macedonia	3–0	Montenegro	25–20	25–21	25–13			75–54	Report

Tournament 10

• Venue: Pavillón dos Deportes de Lugo, Lugo, Spain

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Jun	19:30	Slovakia	2–3	Spain	21–25	25–22	25–16	17–25	14–16	102–104	Report
21 Jun	17:00	Latvia	1–3	Slovakia	25–15	20–25	23–25	23–25		91–90	Report
22 Jun	19:00	Spain	3–0	Latvia	25–22	25–22	25–13			75–57	Report

Tournament 11

• Venue: AGCO Power Arena, Nokia, Finland

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Jun	18:30	Greece	3–1	Finland	23–25	25–18	25–23	25–21		98–87	Report
20 Jun	15:00	Croatia	3–2	Greece	25–22	22–25	18–25	30–28	20–18	115–118	Report
21 Jun	17:00	Finland	3–0	Croatia	25–16	25–12	25–20			75–48	Report

Tournament 12

• Venue: Sportovní hala Klimeška, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Jun	19:45	Romania	2–3	Czech Republic	37–35	17–25	22–25	25–18	11–15	112–118	Report
20 Jun	17:00	Portugal	1–3	Romania	18–25	25–21	22–25	22–25		87–96	Report
21 Jun	17:00	Czech Republic	1–3	Portugal	23–25	25–23	20–25	22–25		90–98	Report

Results by round

The table listed the results of teams in each round.

	Win		Loss

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Czech Republic	W	L	W	L	W	L
Portugal	L	L	W	L	L	W
Romania	W	W	W	W	L	W
Finland	W	W	W	W	L	W
Croatia	L	L	L	L	W	L
Greece	W	W	W	W	W	L
Spain	L	W	W	L	W	W
Latvia	W	L	L	L	L	L
Slovakia	L	W	L	L	L	W
North Macedonia	L	L	W	L	L	W
Montenegro	L	L	L	L	L	L
Israel	W	W	W	W	W	W

Source: CEV

Final four

The Final four was held in the Czech Republic. ^{[3] [4]}

	Semifinals				Final
	5 July
	Greece	0
					6 July
	Finland	3
					Finland	3
	5 July
					Czech Republic	1
	Israel	0
	Czech Republic	3
					3rd place match
					6 July
					Greece	1
					Israel	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
5 Jul	16:00	Greece	0–3	Finland	19–25	23–25	20–25			62–75	Report
5 Jul	19:00	Israel	0–3	Czech Republic	14–25	24–26	23–25			61–76	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jul	16:00	Greece	1–3	Israel	17–25	25–23	23–25	21–25		86–98	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jul	19:00	Finland	3–1	Czech Republic	24–26	26–24	25–15	25–23		100–88	Report

Silver League

2025 Men's European Silver League

Tournament details
Host nation	Hungary /   Sweden (final)
Dates	6 June – 6 July
Teams	8
Champions	Sweden (1st title)
Runners-up	Hungary
Third place	Luxembourg
Fourth place	Austria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Official website
European Silver League
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Schedule

The schedule was as follows: ^[2]

Round	Round date
Week 1	6–8 June 2025
Week 2	13–15 June 2025
Week 3	20–22 June 2025
Week 4	27–29 June 2025
Final	3 & 6 July 2025

Tournament schedule

Week 1
Tournament 1 Bertrange	Tournament 2 Umeå
Luxembourg (6) (H)   Austria (1)   Iceland (7)	Sweden (3) (H)   Georgia (4)   Azerbaijan (8)
Week 2
Tournament 3 Kópavogur	Tournament 4 Baku
Iceland (7) (H)   Sweden (3)   Faroe Islands (5)	Azerbaijan (8) (H)   Hungary (2)   Luxembourg (6)
Week 3
Tournament 5 Sandur	Tournament 6 Kecskemét
Faroe Islands (5) (H)   Austria (1)   Azerbaijan (8)	Hungary (2) (H)   Georgia (4)   Iceland (7)
Week 4
Tournament 7 Tbilisi	Tournament 8 Amstetten
Georgia (4) (H)   Faroe Islands (5)   Luxembourg (6)	Austria (1) (H)   Hungary (2)   Sweden (3)

Tiebreaker

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. 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
3. 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.

League round

• All times are local.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Sweden	6	6	0	18	18	1	18.000	470	305	1.541	Silver League Final
2	Hungary	6	5	1	15	15	4	3.750	450	346	1.301
3	Luxembourg	6	5	1	15	15	4	3.750	451	369	1.222
4	Austria	6	3	3	9	11	10	1.100	486	448	1.085
5	Azerbaijan	6	2	4	6	7	13	0.538	398	463	0.860
6	Faroe Islands	6	2	4	5	8	15	0.533	476	530	0.898
7	Iceland	6	1	5	3	5	17	0.294	379	498	0.761
8	Georgia	6	0	6	1	3	18	0.167	348	499	0.697

Source: CEV

Week 1

Tournament 1

• Venue: Centre Atert, Bertrange, Luxembourg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	20:00	Iceland	0–3	Luxembourg	18–25	15–25	20–25			53–75	Report
7 Jun	20:00	Austria	3–0	Iceland	25–13	25–15	25–13			75–41	Report
8 Jun	18:00	Luxembourg	3–1	Austria	22–25	25–23	25–20	25–21		97–89	Report

Tournament 2

• Venue: Energi Arena Vatten, Umeå, Sweden

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	17:00	Azerbaijan	0–3	Sweden	13–25	20–25	14–25			47–75	Report
7 Jun	17:00	Georgia	0–3	Azerbaijan	20–25	18–25	18–25			56–75	Report
8 Jun	17:00	Sweden	3–0	Georgia	25–12	25–13	25–12			75–37	Report

Week 2

Tournament 3

• Venue: Digranes Sports Hall, Kópavogur, Iceland

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	17:00	Faroe Islands	3–2	Iceland	25–21	25–18	23–25	20–25	15–13	108–102	Report
14 Jun	15:00	Sweden	3–0	Faroe Islands	25–17	25–15	25–13			75–45	Report
15 Jun	15:00	Iceland	0–3	Sweden	7–25	11–25	17–25			35–75	Report

Tournament 4

• Venue: A.Y.S. Sport Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	18:00	Luxembourg	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–20	25–19	25–21			75–60	Report
14 Jun	18:00	Hungary	3–0	Luxembourg	25–17	25–21	25–16			75–54	Report
15 Jun	18:00	Azerbaijan	1–3	Hungary	15–25	25–22	18–25	16–25		74–97	Report

Week 3

Tournament 5

• Venue: Høllin inni í Dal, Sandur, Faroe Islands

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Jun	19:00	Azerbaijan	3–1	Faroe Islands	17–25	25–15	25–22	25–23		92–85	Report
21 Jun	17:00	Austria	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–18	25–18	25–14			75–50	Report
22 Jun	17:00	Faroe Islands	1–3	Austria	29–27	17–25	24–26	20–25		90–103	Report

Tournament 6

• Venue: Messzi István Sportcsarnok, Kecskemét, Hungary

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Jun	17:00	Iceland	0–3	Hungary	11–25	14–25	20–25			45–75	Report
21 Jun	17:00	Georgia	2–3	Iceland	14–25	26–24	25–14	19–25	6–15	90–103	Report
22 Jun	17:00	Hungary	3–0	Georgia	25–9	25–17	25–16			75–42	Report

Week 4

Tournament 7

• Venue: Tbilisi Sports Palace Small Hall, Tbilisi, Georgia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Jun	19:00	Luxembourg	3–0	Georgia	25–17	25–14	25–9			75–40	Report
28 Jun	19:00	Faroe Islands	0–3	Luxembourg	16–25	14–25	22–25			52–75	Report
29 Jun	19:00	Georgia	1–3	Faroe Islands	18–25	25–21	22–25	18–25		83–96	Report

Tournament 8

• Venue: Johann Pölz Halle, Amstetten, Austria

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Jun	17:35	Sweden	3–1	Austria	25–22	25–18	20–25	25–23		95–88	Report
28 Jun	17:35	Hungary	0–3	Sweden	15–25	21–25	17–25			53–75	Report
29 Jun	17:35	Austria	0–3	Hungary	18–25	20–25	18–25			56–75	Report

Results by round

The table listed the results of teams in each round.

	Win		Loss

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Austria	W	L	W	W	L	L
Hungary	W	W	W	W	L	W
Sweden	W	W	W	W	W	W
Georgia	L	L	L	L	L	L
Faroe Islands	W	L	L	L	L	W
Luxembourg	W	W	W	L	W	W
Iceland	L	L	L	L	L	W
Azerbaijan	L	W	L	L	W	L

Source: CEV

Final

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sweden	4–2	Hungary	3–1	2–3

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
3 Jul	18:30	Hungary	1–3	Sweden	25–21	20–25	16–15	15–25		76–86	Report
6 Jul	17:00	Sweden	2–3	Hungary	25–17	20–25	27–29	25–16	15–17	112–104	Report

Final standing

Rank Team   Finland   Czech Republic   Israel 4   Greece 5   Romania 6   Spain 7   Portugal 8   Slovakia 9   North Macedonia 10   Croatia 11   Latvia 12   Montenegro 13   Sweden 14   Hungary 15   Luxembourg 16   Austria 17   Azerbaijan 18   Faroe Islands 19   Iceland 20   Georgia

2025 European League champions  Finland 1st title

See also

• 2025 Women's European Volleyball League

References

1. "CEV Volleyball European Golden League 2025 Official Communication" (PDF). cev.eu. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
2. "CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2025 Official Communication" (PDF). cev.eu. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
3. "Ostrava, Czechia to host #EuroLeagueM Final Four". cev.eu. 22 November 2024.
4. "A likely maiden winner to be crowned in mouthwatering Golden League Men Final Four in Brno". cev.eu. 4 July 2025.

External links

• Golden League official page
• Silver League official page