Adelaide, Australia

The 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Australia is not only the first to be held in the Oceania region, but the first ever to be held in an Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) member country. Adelaide, the capital and most populous city of South Australia and the fifth most populous city in Australia, hosts the 15^th edition of the world’s premier beach volleyball competition from November 14 to 23.

From the most popular cycling race in the southern hemisphere, the UCI Santos Tour Down Under, to the FIFA Women's Football World Cup 2023, LIV Golf, and the Adelaide International tennis tournament, South Australia is known for putting on amazing events that engage with audiences around the globe. Home to the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, where beach volleyball made its second Olympic appearance, Australia is now an important destination on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. The country staged seven stops during the first three seasons of the Tour, including one Elite16, one Challenge and five Futures events. The organization of Beach Volleyball World Championships Adelaide 2025 brings a major international sporting event to the Australian calendar on the way to the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games and the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.

The 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship matches and a beach festival are held at The Drive, with around 1,000 cubic metres of sand brought in to turn the famous tennis venue into a beach volleyball stadium, and Adelaide's northern riverbank, an opportunity for attendees to enjoy South Australia's renowned food, wine, beaches, wildlife and many other attractions.

The World Championships event precinct is within a compact area with hotels, transportation and dining options within walking distance. Enriched in history, The Drive has been newly refreshed with a $44 million redevelopment transforming it into an open-air venue, perfect for volleyball, other sports, concerts, event functions, etc. The main competition area at The Drive houses a covered centre court with an inbuilt grandstand holding 4,200 seats. The construction of the new Northern and Eastern Facilities linked by a concourse level has enhanced patron amenities, food and beverage facilities, and premium office and gym spaces. The arena is accessible via a pedestrian bridge from the Intercontinental Adelaide and Adelaide Train Station just five hundred metres away.

The additional competition sites are across the road at Pinky Flat and Torrens Parade Ground, both within six hundred metres of the main competition venue. The event entertainment zone includes an interactive Beach Festival, featuring activities for children, live music, player appearances and a range of food and beverages to satisfy everyone. The Beach Festival also features a screen showing live matches as well as curated volleyball content in between matches.

Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf Saint Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan population (including suburbs) includes nearly 1.5 million inhabitants.

Adelaide is a vibrant city bursting with art, culture, flavours, events and entertainment and home to extraordinary wildlife that often can't be found anywhere else in the world.

Adelaide, noted for its leading examples of religious freedom and progressive political reforms, has become known as the "City of Churches" due to its diversity of faiths. The city has also been renowned for its automotive industry, as well as being the original host of the Australian Grand Prix in the FIA Formula One World Championship from 1985 to 1995.

Today, Adelaide is known by its many festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its coastline and hills, its large defence and manufacturing sectors, and its emerging space sector, including the Australian Space Agency being headquartered here. Adelaide's quality of life is ranked consistently highly in various measures. Architectural Digest ranked Adelaide as the most beautiful city in the world in 2024.

As South Australia's government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the cultural boulevards of North Terrace and King William Street. Adelaide is a planned city, arranged in a grid, with five squares in the Adelaide city centre and a ring of parks, known as the Adelaide Parklands, surrounding it.

As the state capital, Adelaide has a great number of cultural institutions, many of them along the boulevard of North Terrace. The Art Gallery of South Australia, with about 35,000 works, holds Australia's second largest state-based collection. Adjacent are the South Australian Museum and State Library of South Australia. The Adelaide Botanic Garden, National Wine Centre and Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute are nearby in the East End of the city. In the back of the State Library lies the Migration Museum, Australia's oldest museum of its kind. Further west, the Lion Arts Centre is home to ACE Open, which showcases contemporary art. The Mercury Cinema and the JamFactory ceramics and design gallery are just around the corner.

The Adelaide Festival Centre on the banks of the Torrens is the focal point for much of the cultural activity in the city and home to the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Other live music and theatre venues include the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide Oval, Memorial Drive Park, Adelaide Town Hall, etc.

World-famous wine regions are situated only minutes away from the city, which also boasts picture-perfect metropolitan beaches, lush parklands, a thriving restaurant and bar scene and many international cultural fairs. At the Adelaide Central Market, the city’s food and drink hub, over 70 market stalls are lined with the region’s best fresh produce – the perfect place to pick up Aussie chocolate, produce, cheese and more.

The Adelaide Zoo, the West Terrace Cemetery, the Bay Discovery Centre, the Mall's Balls sculpture, the Waterfall Gully, the Tramway Museum, the South Australian Maritime Museum, the Coopers Brewery and St Peter's Cathedral are just some of the many other tourist attractions worth visiting in Adelaide.

Adelaide has a climate with hot, dry summers and cool winters with moderate rainfall. The daily mean temperature in November is around 20 °C.