The 32 men’s and 32 women’s national teams that will compete for medals at the 2025 FIVB Volleyball World Championships have now been announced, as the qualification period for the tournaments was concluded.
Set to feature 32 national teams in each gender for the first time (previously 24 teams per gender competed), next year’s edition of the event will also be the first to be held biannually. In 2025, as many as 43 different countries will be represented at the World Championships – six from Africa, eight from Asia, 19 from Europe, six from the NORCECA region and four from South America.
The men’s tournament has two automatic qualifiers – hosts the Philippines and defending champions Italy. As part of the new qualification system, 15 spots were awarded during the 2023 Continental Championships, with Egypt, Algeria and Libya emerging from Africa, Japan, Iran and Qatar qualifying in Asia, Poland, Slovenia and France taking the European berths, the USA, Canada and Cuba joining from the NORCECA region and Argentina, Brazil and Colombia representing South America.
