2025 Women's European Volleyball League

2025 Women's European Volleyball League

Tournament details
Dates	29 May – 29 June
Teams	21
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The 2025 Women's European Volleyball League was the 16th edition of the annual Women's European Volleyball League, which featured women's national volleyball teams from 21 European countries.

The tournament had two divisions: the Golden League, which featured 12 teams, and the Silver League, which featured 9 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
Ukraine (8)
Slovakia (12)
Sweden (13)
Slovenia (14)
Spain (15)
Greece (16)
Croatia (17)
Romania (18)
Azerbaijan (19)
Hungary (20)
Portugal (21)
Montenegro (25)

Silver League

League phase
Austria (22)
Switzerland (26)
Latvia (27)
Israel (29)
Georgia (30)
North Macedonia (32)
Luxembourg (33)
Faroe Islands (34)
Iceland (35)

Golden League

2025 Women's European Golden League

Tournament details
Host nation	Sweden (final four)
Dates	29 May – 29 June
Teams	12
Champions	Ukraine (3rd title)
Runners-up	Hungary
Third place	Romania
Fourth place	Sweden
Tournament awards
MVP	Daria Sharhorodska
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	29 May – 1 June 2025
Week 2	6–8 June 2025
Week 3	13–15 June 2025
Final four	28–29 June 2025

Tournament schedule

Week 1
Tournament 1 Podgorica	Tournament 2 Baku	Tournament 3 Kozani	Tournament 4 Örebro
Montenegro (12) (H)   Ukraine (1)   Spain (5)	Azerbaijan (9) (H)   Slovenia (4)   Hungary (10)	Greece (6) (H)   Slovakia (2)   Croatia (7)	Sweden (3) (H)   Romania (8)   Portugal (11)
Week 2
Tournament 5 Vila do Conde	Tournament 6 Blaj	Tournament 7 Alicante	Tournament 8 Bratislava
Portugal (11) (H)   Ukraine (1)   Slovenia (4)	Romania (8) (H)   Greece (6)   Hungary (10)	Spain (5) (H)   Sweden (3)   Croatia (7)	Slovakia (2) (H)   Azerbaijan (9)   Montenegro (12)
Week 3
Tournament 9 Kaposvár	Tournament 10 Zadar	Tournament 11 Velenje	Tournament 12 Radom [a]
Hungary (10) (H)   Portugal (11)   Montenegro (12)	Croatia (7) (H)   Romania (8)   Azerbaijan (9)	Slovenia (4) (H)   Spain (5)   Greece (6)	Ukraine (1) (H)   Slovakia (2)   Sweden (3)

1. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine'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	Romania	6	5	1	16	17	4	4.250	516	405	1.274	Golden League Final four
2	Ukraine	6	5	1	15	15	6	2.500	502	409	1.227
3	Sweden [a]	6	5	1	14	15	6	2.500	486	443	1.097
4	Hungary	6	5	1	13	15	9	1.667	529	526	1.006
5	Slovenia	6	4	2	11	13	9	1.444	500	471	1.062
6	Slovakia	6	3	3	9	9	10	0.900	403	397	1.015
7	Greece	6	2	4	8	12	13	0.923	582	552	1.054
8	Croatia	6	2	4	7	10	14	0.714	509	536	0.950
9	Spain	6	2	4	6	9	13	0.692	486	505	0.962
10	Portugal	6	2	4	6	9	14	0.643	492	546	0.901
11	Montenegro	6	1	5	3	6	16	0.375	429	522	0.822
12	Azerbaijan	6	0	6	0	2	18	0.111	363	485	0.748	Relegation to Silver League

Source: CEV
Notes:

1. Qualified as final four host

Week 1

Tournament 1

• Venue: Verde Complex, Podgorica, Montenegro

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	18:00	Spain	3–0	Montenegro	25–20	25–16	25–17			75–53	Report
31 May	18:00	Ukraine	3–1	Spain	25–16	20–25	25–16	25–15		95–72	Report
1 Jun	18:00	Montenegro	1–3	Ukraine	20–25	25–21	18–25	12–25		75–96	Report

Tournament 2

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

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	18:00	Hungary	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–13	25–22	25–20			75–55	Report
31 May	18:00	Slovenia	3–0	Hungary	25–17	25–14	25–17			75–48	Report
1 Jun	18:00	Azerbaijan	0–3	Slovenia	16–25	19–25	23–25			58–75	Report

Tournament 3

• Venue: Kozani New Indoor Sport Hall, Kozani, Greece

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	21:00	Croatia	3–1	Greece	23–25	25–19	25–23	25–21		98–88	Report
31 May	19:00	Slovakia	3–1	Croatia	25–22	21–25	25–20	25–17		96–84	Report
1 Jun	19:00	Greece	3–0	Slovakia	25–20	25–21	25–19			75–60	Report

Tournament 4

• Venue: Idrottshuset, Örebro, Sweden

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 May	16:00	Portugal	1–3	Sweden	25–23	20–25	24–26	19–25		88–99	Report
30 May	18:00	Romania	3–0	Portugal	25–17	25–17	25–10			75–44	Report
31 May	16:00	Sweden	0–3	Romania	18–25	17–25	18–25			53–75	Report

Week 2

Tournament 5

• Venue: Pavilhão de Desportos de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	21:00	Ukraine	3–1	Portugal	25–13	25–20	23–25	25–18		98–76	Report
7 Jun	17:00	Slovenia	0–3	Ukraine	23–25	16–25	22–25			61–75	Report
8 Jun	15:00	Portugal	3–1	Slovenia	25–21	24–26	26–24	25–19		100–90	Report

Tournament 6

• Venue: Sala Polivalentă, Blaj, Romania

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	16:30	Hungary	3–2	Romania	21–25	23–25	25–21	25–21	20–18	114–110	Report
7 Jun	16:30	Greece	2–3	Hungary	23–25	25–10	23–25	25–18	16–18	112–96	Report
8 Jun	16:30	Romania	3–1	Greece	26–28	25–22	26–24	29–27		106–101	Report

Tournament 7

• Venue: Pabellón Pedro Ferrándiz, Alicante, Spain

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	Croatia	1–3	Spain	25–20	19–25	21–25	17–25		82–95	Report
7 Jun	18:00	Sweden	3–2	Croatia	25–23	23–25	25–17	17–25	15–9	105–99	Report
8 Jun	18:00	Spain	0–3	Sweden	23–25	21–25	26–28			70–78	Report

Tournament 8

• Venue: Gopass Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	20:00	Azerbaijan	0–3	Slovakia	20–25	12–25	20–25			52–75	Report
7 Jun	18:00	Montenegro	3–1	Azerbaijan	25–18	16–25	25–19	25–18		91–80	Report
8 Jun	18:00	Slovakia	3–0	Montenegro	25–16	25–7	25–13			75–36	Report

Week 3

Tournament 9

• Venue: Kaposvár Aréna, Kaposvár, Hungary

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	18:00	Montenegro	1–3	Hungary	20–25	25–23	23–25	20–25		88–98	Report
14 Jun	18:00	Portugal	3–1	Montenegro	23–25	25–18	25–21	25–22		98–86	Report
15 Jun	18:00	Hungary	3–1	Portugal	25–20	25–18	23–25	25–23		98–86	Report

Tournament 10

• Venue: Krešimir Ćosić Hall, Zadar, Croatia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	16:30	Azerbaijan	1–3	Croatia	25–19	15–25	17–25	20–25		77–94	Report
14 Jun	16:30	Romania	3–0	Azerbaijan	25–14	25–10	25–17			75–41	Report
15 Jun	16:30	Croatia	0–3	Romania	18–25	15–25	19–25			52–75	Report

Tournament 11

• Venue: Rdeča dvorana, Velenje, Slovenia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	18:00	Greece	2–3	Slovenia	23–25	25–20	19–25	25–20	11–15	103–105	Report
14 Jun	17:00	Spain	1–3	Greece	16–25	30–28	19–25	22–25		87–103	Report
15 Jun	18:00	Slovenia	3–1	Spain	19–25	25–22	25–18	25–22		94–87	Report

Tournament 12

• Venue: Radomskie Centrum Sportu, Radom, Poland

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	19:00	Sweden	3–0	Ukraine	25–20	26–24	25–19			76–63	Report
14 Jun	19:00	Slovakia	0–3	Sweden	21–25	13–25	14–25			48–75	Report
15 Jun	17:00	Ukraine	3–0	Slovakia	25–12	25–21	25–16			75–49	Report

Results by round

The table listed the results of teams in each round.

	Win		Loss

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ukraine	W	W	W	W	L	W
Slovakia	W	L	W	W	L	L
Sweden	W	L	W	W	W	W
Slovenia	W	W	L	L	W	W
Spain	W	L	W	L	L	L
Greece	L	W	L	L	L	W
Croatia	W	L	L	L	W	L
Romania	W	W	L	W	W	W
Azerbaijan	L	L	L	L	L	L
Hungary	W	L	W	W	W	W
Portugal	L	L	L	W	W	L
Montenegro	L	L	W	L	L	L

Source: CEV

Final four

The Final four was held in Sweden. ^{[3] [4]}

	Semifinals				Final
	28 June
	Romania	2
					29 June
	Hungary	3
					Hungary	1
	28 June
					Ukraine	3
	Ukraine	3
	Sweden	0
					3rd place match
					29 June
					Romania	3
					Sweden	2

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Jun	16:00	Romania	2–3	Hungary	25–10	22–25	12–25	25–16	9–15	93–91	Report
28 Jun	19:00	Ukraine	3–0	Sweden	25–19	25–20	25–18			75–57	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jun	16:00	Romania	3–2	Sweden	17–25	25–20	21–25	26–24	15–13	104–107	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jun	19:00	Hungary	1–3	Ukraine	16–25	25–23	16–25	17–25		74–98	Report

Silver League

2025 Women's European Silver League

Tournament details
Host nation	Latvia /   Switzerland (final)
Dates	30 May – 29 June
Teams	9
Champions	Switzerland (1st title)
Runners-up	Latvia
Third place	Austria
Fourth place	Israel
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Official website
European Silver League
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Schedule

The schedule was as follows: ^[2]

Round	Round date
Week 1	30 May – 1 June 2025
Week 2	6–8 June 2025
Week 3	13–15 June 2025
Final	26 & 29 June 2025

Tournament schedule

Week 1
Tournament 1 Kópavogur	Tournament 2 Strumica	Tournament 3 Jelgava
Iceland (9) (H)   Austria (1)   Georgia (5)	North Macedonia (6) (H)    Switzerland (2)   Luxembourg (7)	Latvia (3) (H)   Israel (4)   Faroe Islands (8)
Week 2
Tournament 4 Sandur	Tournament 5 Tbilisi	Tournament 6 Schönenwerd
Faroe Islands (8) (H)   Austria (1)   North Macedonia (6)	Georgia (5) (H)   Latvia (3)   Luxembourg (7)	Switzerland (2) (H)   Israel (4)   Iceland (9)
Week 3
Tournament 7 Luxembourg	Tournament 8 Strumica [a]	Tournament 9 Amstetten
Luxembourg (7) (H)   Faroe Islands (8)   Iceland (9)	Israel (4) (H)   Georgia (5)   North Macedonia (6)	Austria (1) (H)    Switzerland (2)   Latvia (3)

1. Due to the Gaza genocide, 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
1	Switzerland	6	6	0	18	18	0	MAX	453	281	1.612	Silver League Final
2	Latvia	6	4	2	13	14	8	1.750	502	432	1.162
3	Austria	6	4	2	12	14	8	1.750	495	415	1.193
4	Israel	6	4	2	11	12	8	1.500	440	392	1.122
5	Georgia	6	3	3	8	12	14	0.857	555	584	0.950
6	Iceland	6	3	3	7	9	13	0.692	439	485	0.905
7	North Macedonia	6	2	4	7	9	12	0.750	402	447	0.899
8	Luxembourg	6	1	5	5	7	15	0.467	411	501	0.820
9	Faroe Islands	6	0	6	0	1	18	0.056	318	478	0.665

Source: CEV

Week 1

Tournament 1

• Venue: Digranes Sports Hall, Kópavogur, Iceland

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	17:00	Georgia	2–3	Iceland	25–19	13–25	23–25	28–26	14–16	103–111	Report
31 May	15:00	Austria	2–3	Georgia	26–28	23–25	25–13	27–25	13–15	114–106	Report
1 Jun	15:00	Iceland	0–3	Austria	16–25	15–25	17–25			48–75	Report

Tournament 2

• Venue: Park Sports Hall, Strumica, North Macedonia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	20:00	Luxembourg	0–3	North Macedonia	16–25	19–25	14–25			49–75	Report
31 May	20:00	Switzerland	3–0	Luxembourg	25–11	25–13	25–14			75–38	Report
1 Jun	20:00	North Macedonia	0–3	Switzerland	7–25	16–25	6–25			29–75	Report

Tournament 3

• Venue: Zemgale Olympic Center, Jelgava, Latvia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 May	19:00	Faroe Islands	1–3	Latvia	11–25	30–28	17–25	15–25		73–103	Report
31 May	20:00	Israel	3–0	Faroe Islands	25–14	25–19	25–14			75–47	Report
1 Jun	17:00	Latvia	3–0	Israel	25–17	25–19	25–13			75–49	Report

Week 2

Tournament 4

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

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	North Macedonia	3–0	Faroe Islands	25–11	25–21	25–16			75–48	Report
7 Jun	17:00	Austria	3–0	North Macedonia	25–12	25–12	25–20			75–44	Report
8 Jun	17:00	Faroe Islands	0–3	Austria	13–25	9–25	22–25			44–75	Report

Tournament 5

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

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	Luxembourg	2–3	Georgia	25–21	29–31	15–25	25–22	8–15	102–114	Report
7 Jun	19:00	Latvia	3–0	Luxembourg	25–17	25–17	25–11			75–45	Report
8 Jun	19:00	Georgia	1–3	Latvia	25–16	23–25	21–25	18–25		87–91	Report

Tournament 6

• Venue: Betoncoupe Arena, Schönenwerd, Switzerland

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Jun	19:00	Iceland	0–3	Switzerland	10–25	14–25	16–25			40–75	Report
7 Jun	17:00	Israel	3–0	Iceland	25–20	25–18	25–16			75–54	Report
8 Jun	17:00	Switzerland	3–0	Israel	25–18	28–26	25–17			78–61	Report

Week 3

Tournament 7

• Venue: d'Coque, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	20:00	Iceland	3–2	Luxembourg	25–22	21–25	24–26	25–15	16–14	111–102	Report
14 Jun	20:00	Faroe Islands	0–3	Iceland	19–25	18–25	18–25			55–75	Report
15 Jun	18:00	Luxembourg	3–0	Faroe Islands	25–20	25–11	25–20			75–51	Report

Tournament 8

• Venue: Park Sports Hall, Strumica, North Macedonia

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	19:00	North Macedonia	2–3	Israel	14–25	25–18	25–22	14–25	10–15	88–105	Report
14 Jun	19:00	Georgia	3–1	North Macedonia	20–25	25–21	25–23	25–22		95–91	Report
15 Jun	19:00	Israel	3–0	Georgia	25–14	25–18	25–18			75–50	Report

Tournament 9

• Venue: Johann Pölz Halle, Amstetten, Austria

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	17:35	Latvia	2–3	Austria	16–25	23–25	25–19	25–19	9–15	98–103	Report
14 Jun	17:35	Switzerland	3–0	Latvia	25–19	25–18	25–23			75–60	Report
15 Jun	17:35	Austria	0–3	Switzerland	19–25	16–25	18–25			53–75	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	L	W	W	W	W	L
Switzerland	W	W	W	W	W	W
Latvia	W	W	W	W	L	L
Israel	W	L	W	L	W	W
Georgia	L	W	W	L	W	L
North Macedonia	W	L	W	L	L	L
Luxembourg	L	L	L	L	L	W
Faroe Islands	L	L	L	L	L	L
Iceland	W	L	L	L	W	W

Source: CEV

Final

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Switzerland	4–2	Latvia	2–3	3–0

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Jun	19:45	Latvia	3–2	Switzerland	25–17	21–25	32–30	22–25	15–8	115–105	Report
29 Jun	17:00	Switzerland	3–0	Latvia	25–20	25–20	25–19			75–59	Report

Final standing

Rank Team   Ukraine   Hungary   Romania 4   Sweden 5   Slovenia 6   Slovakia 7   Greece 8   Croatia 9   Spain 10   Portugal 11   Montenegro 12   Azerbaijan 13    Switzerland 14   Latvia 15   Austria 16   Israel 17   Georgia 18   Iceland 19   North Macedonia 20   Luxembourg 21   Faroe Islands

2025 European League champions  Ukraine 3rd title

See also

• 2025 Men'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. "Sweden to vie for back-back #EuroLeagueW crowns on home soil". cev.eu. 21 November 2024.
4. "New CEV Volleyball European Golden League Women edition to provide excitement and drama". cev.eu. 29 May 2025.

External links

• Golden League official page
• Silver League official page