2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

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2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

2025年世界U21男排锦标赛
Tournament details
Host nation	China
City	Jiangmen
Dates	21–31 August
Teams	24 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Attendance	11,874 (198 per match)
Official website
en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/men-u21-world-championship/
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The 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship is the 23rd edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 21 of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It is currently held in Jiangmen Sports Center at Jiangmen, China from 21 to 31 August 2025.^[1]

Starting with this edition, the tournament is expanded to include 24 teams instead of 16 teams of previous editions, following the decision adopted by FIVB in June 2023.^[2]

On 28 March 2024, FIVB opened the bidding process for member associations whose countries were interested in hosting one of the four Age Group World Championships in 2025 (i.e., U19 Boys' and Girls' World Championships and U21 Men's and Women's World Championships).^[3] The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 30 April 2024, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).^[4]

On 10 September 2024, FIVB announced that China was selected as the host for the 2024 Boys' U21 World Championship.^[5]

A total of 24 national teams qualified for the final tournament.^[4] In addition to the host team and the defending champions who qualified automatically, 20 other teams were qualified through five separate continental competitions which were required to held no later than 31 December 2024. Two remaining teams entered the tournament via the Men's U21 FIVB World Ranking (as of 31 December 2024) among the teams not yet qualified.

The slot allocation per confederation was set as follows:^[4]

• Defending champion (Iran): 1
• AVC (Asia & Oceania): 4
• CAVB (Africa): 3
• CEV (Europe): 6
• CSV (South America): 3
• NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean): 4
• Host: 1
• Top teams not yet qualified as per Men's U21 FIVB World Ranking: 2

The following 24 teams qualified for the tournament.

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Team qualified	Appearances			Previous best performance
			Total	First	Last
AVC (Asia & Oceania)	Host nation	China	17th	1977	2019	Runners-up (1977)
	Defending champions	Iran	15th	1993	2023	Champions (2019, 2023)
	2024 Asian Men's U20 Championship ( Surabaya, 23–30 July)	South Korea	14th	1977	2019	Champions (1987)
		Japan	14th	1977	2017	Runners-up (1989)
		Indonesia	2nd	1989		Fifteenth (1989)
		Kazakhstan	1st	Debut		None
	Men's U21 FIVB World Ranking	Thailand	4th	1999	2023	Eighth place (2023)
CAVB (Africa)	2024 Men's U20 African Nations Championship ( Tunis, 5–10 August)	Tunisia	14th	1985	2023	Ninth place (1999, 2005)
		Egypt	15th	1981	2023	Ninth place (2003, 2023)
		Morocco	8th	1999	2021	Ninth place (2005)
CEV (Europe)	2024 Men's U20 European Championship ( Vrnjačka Banja and Arta, 26 August–7 September)	France	7th	1985	2015	Runners-up (1999)
		Czech Republic	7th[a]	1991	2023	Third place (1993)
		Bulgaria	11th	1985	2023	Champions (1991)
		Italy	17th	1985	2023	Champions (2021)
		Ukraine	4th	1999	2017	Ninth place (1999)
		Turkey	4th	2013	2017	Sixth place (2013, 2015)
	Men's U21 FIVB World Ranking	Poland	13th	1989	2023	Champions (1997, 2003, 2017)
CSV (South America)	2024 Men's U21 South American Championship ( Callao, 30 October–3 November)	Brazil	23rd	1977	2023	Champions (1993, 2001, 2007, 2009)
		Colombia	2nd	1977		Eighth place (1977)
		Argentina	18th	1977	2023	Runners-up (2011, 2015)
NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean)	2024 Men's U21 NORCECA Championship ( Nogales, 9–17 June)	United States	11th	1977	2023	Fourth place (2011)
		Canada	14th	1977	2023	Fifth place (1999)
		Cuba	15th	1981	2021	Runners-up (1987, 2009, 2017)
		Puerto Rico	6th	1989	2019	Ninth place (1997)

The draw for the pools composition will held on 4 December 2024 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[6] The 24 participating teams will be split into four single round-robin pools of six with the host nations and the reigning world champions receiving the highest seeds. The rest of the qualified teams are seeded in a serpentine system based on their positions in the respective FIVB World Rankings.^[7]

Men's U21 FIVB World Ranking of each team as of 4 November 2024 are shown in brackets, except the hosts China who ranked 66th.

The draw procedure also followed the serpentine system and was as follows:^[7]

• Teams from pot 4 were drawn first and were placed in line 6 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
• Teams from pot 3 were then drawn and placed in line 5 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.
• Teams from pot 2 were then drawn and were placed in line 4 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
• Teams from pot 1 were then drawn and placed in line 3 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:

Pool A Pos Team A1  China A2  Egypt A3  United States A4  Thailand A5  Morocco A6  Turkey

Pool B Pos Team B1  Iran B2  Poland B3  Canada B4  South Korea B5  Puerto Rico B6  Kazakhstan

Pool C Pos Team C1  Bulgaria C2  Brazil C3  Czech Republic C4  Colombia C5  Japan C6  Cuba

Pool D Pos Team D1  Italy D2  Argentina D3  Tunisia D4  France D5  Ukraine D6  Indonesia

In June 2023 during a three-day meeting in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the FIVB Board of Administration approved the proposal made by its Volleyball Council to increase the number of participating teams to 24 in its Age Group World Championships (U19 and U21 in both genders).^[8][2] Consequently, the distribution of quotas by confederation for the Women's U21 World Championship was modified regarding previous editions, ensuring one automatic quota for the defending champion and assigning two quotas based on the corresponding FIVB Age Group World Ranking.^{[citation needed]}

The new competition formula was in line with the one adopted for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, which was also contested by 24 teams.^[9]

The ranking of teams in the preliminary round was established according the following criteria:^[10]

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost);
2. Match points;
   • 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. Sets ratio;
4. Points ratio;
5. If the tie continues between two teams: result of the last match between the tied teams. If the tie continues between three or more teams: a new classification would be made taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Each national team had to register a long-list roster with up to 25 players, which eventually had to be reduced to a final list of 12 players. Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to compete in the tournament.^[4]

• All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	United States	5	5	0	13	15	5	3.000	488	413	1.182	Round of 16
2	Egypt	5	4	1	10	14	9	1.556	516	490	1.053
3	China (H)	5	3	2	10	12	7	1.714	442	403	1.097
4	Turkey	5	2	3	8	11	9	1.222	441	429	1.028
5	Thailand	5	1	4	4	5	12	0.417	337	385	0.875	17th–24th places
6	Morocco	5	0	5	0	0	15	0.000	271	375	0.723

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Aug	11:00	United States	3–0	Thailand	25–20	25–15	25–19			75–54	P2 Report
21 Aug	14:00	China	3–1	Turkey	25–21	25–27	25–23	25–21		100–92	P2 Report
21 Aug	17:00	Egypt	3–0	Morocco	25–21	25–10	25–17			75–48	P2 Report
22 Aug	11:00	Egypt	3–2	Thailand	25–20	14–25	22–25	25–17	15–10	101–97	P2 Report
22 Aug	14:00	United States	3–2	Turkey	21–25	25–13	25–22	21–25	15–7	107–92	P2 Report
22 Aug	17:00	China	3–0	Morocco	25–13	25–17	25–20			75–50	P2 Report
23 Aug	11:00	Egypt	2–3	United States	24–26	33–31	35–37	25–23	10–15	127–132	P2 Report
23 Aug	14:00	Morocco	0–3	Turkey	20–25	21–25	19–25			60–75	P2 Report
23 Aug	17:00	China	3–0	Thailand	25–18	25–17	25–19			75–54	P2 Report
25 Aug	11:00	Egypt	3–2	Turkey	26–24	22–25	14–25	25–17	18–16	105–107	P2 Report
25 Aug	14:00	China	1–3	United States	26–24	21–25	21–25	18–25		86–99	P2 Report
25 Aug	17:00	Thailand	3–0	Morocco	25–19	25–19	25–21			75–59	P2 Report
26 Aug	11:00	Thailand	0–3	Turkey	18–25	17–25	22–25			57–75	P2 Report
26 Aug	14:00	United States	3–0	Morocco	25–11	25–20	25–23			75–54	P2 Report
26 Aug	17:00	China	2–3	Egypt	18–25	22–25	28–26	25–17	13–15	106–108	P2 Report

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Iran	5	5	0	14	15	4	3.750	458	363	1.262	Round of 16
2	Poland	5	4	1	12	13	3	4.333	380	336	1.131
3	Kazakhstan	5	2	3	7	9	10	0.900	431	442	0.975
4	South Korea	5	2	3	6	9	12	0.750	457	458	0.998
5	Canada	5	2	3	6	8	11	0.727	410	430	0.953	17th–24th places
6	Puerto Rico	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	288	395	0.729

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Aug	11:00	Iran	3–1	Kazakhstan	25–19	21–25	25–23	25–17		96–84	P2 Report
21 Aug	14:00	Poland	3–0	Puerto Rico	25–15	25–22	25–22			75–59	P2 Report
21 Aug	17:00	Canada	2–3	South Korea	28–26	20–25	18–25	25–15	7–15	98–106	P2 Report
22 Aug	11:00	Iran	3–0	Puerto Rico	25–14	25–14	25–9			75–37	P2 Report
22 Aug	14:00	Poland	3–0	South Korea	25–16	25–21	25–20			75–57	P2 Report
22 Aug	17:00	Canada	3–2	Kazakhstan	34–32	23–25	22–25	25–21	15–13	119–116	P2 Report
23 Aug	11:00	Iran	3–2	South Korea	31–33	25–15	25–22	22–25	15–12	118–107	P2 Report
23 Aug	14:00	Poland	3–0	Canada	26–24	25–18	25–20			76–62	P2 Report
23 Aug	17:00	Puerto Rico	0–3	Kazakhstan	23–25	21–25	16–25			60–75	P2 Report
25 Aug	11:00	Iran	3–0	Canada	25–20	25–14	25–22			75–56	P2 Report
25 Aug	14:00	Poland	3–0	Kazakhstan	25–21	25–21	25–22			75–64	P2 Report
25 Aug	17:00	South Korea	3–1	Puerto Rico	25–17	20–25	25–16	25–17		95–75	P2 Report
26 Aug	11:00	Iran	3–1	Poland	25–18	19–25	25–17	25–19		94–79	P2 Report
26 Aug	14:00	Canada	3–0	Puerto Rico	25–21	25–18	25–18			75–57	P2 Report
26 Aug	17:00	South Korea	1–3	Kazakhstan	25–17	23–25	22–25	22–25		92–92	P2 Report

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	5	5	0	14	15	3	5.000	433	367	1.180	Round of 16
2	Japan	5	4	1	11	13	5	2.600	426	353	1.207
3	Cuba	5	3	2	9	11	9	1.222	445	445	1.000
4	Bulgaria	5	2	3	6	9	11	0.818	421	439	0.959
5	Brazil	5	1	4	4	5	12	0.417	360	388	0.928	17th–24th places
6	Colombia	5	0	5	1	2	15	0.133	339	432	0.785

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Aug	11:00	Bulgaria	1–3	Cuba	25–16	17–25	23–25	21–25		86–91	P2 Report
21 Aug	14:00	Brazil	0–3	Japan	21–25	23–25	20–25			64–75	P2 Report
21 Aug	17:00	Czech Republic	3–0	Colombia	25–15	25–17	25–16			75–48	P2 Report
22 Aug	11:00	Bulgaria	2–3	Japan	25–22	20–25	18–25	25–23	12–15	100–110	P2 Report
22 Aug	14:00	Brazil	3–0	Colombia	25–21	27–25	25–20			77–66	P2 Report
22 Aug	17:00	Czech Republic	3–2	Cuba	18–25	25–23	26–24	24–26	15–9	108–107	P2 Report
23 Aug	11:00	Bulgaria	3–0	Colombia	31–29	25–20	25–21			81–70	P2 Report
23 Aug	14:00	Brazil	0–3	Czech Republic	21–25	20–25	23–25			64–75	P2 Report
23 Aug	17:00	Japan	3–0	Cuba	25–23	25–17	25–8			75–48	P2 Report
25 Aug	11:00	Bulgaria	0–3	Czech Republic	22–25	16–25	19–25			57–75	P2 Report
25 Aug	14:00	Brazil	0–3	Cuba	23–25	19–25	20–25			62–75	P2 Report
25 Aug	17:00	Colombia	0–3	Japan	16–25	11–25	14–25			41–75	P2 Report
26 Aug	11:00	Czech Republic	3–1	Japan	23–25	25–19	27–25	25–22		100–91	P2 Report
26 Aug	14:00	Bulgaria	3–2	Brazil	25–17	25–16	20–25	12–25	15–10	97–93	P2 Report
26 Aug	17:00	Colombia	2–3	Cuba	17–25	41–39	21–25	25–20	10–15	114–124	P2 Report

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Italy	5	5	0	15	15	1	15.000	400	323	1.238	Round of 16
2	France	5	4	1	12	13	5	2.600	435	385	1.130
3	Ukraine	5	3	2	8	10	9	1.111	441	411	1.073
4	Argentina	5	2	3	5	8	11	0.727	413	439	0.941
5	Indonesia	5	1	4	5	7	13	0.538	430	460	0.935	17th–24th places
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	296	397	0.746

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–0	Indonesia	25–21	25–17	25–22			75–60	P2 Report
21 Aug	20:00	Tunisia	0–3	France	20–25	17–25	16–25			53–75	P2 Report
21 Aug	20:00	Argentina	1–3	Ukraine	21–25	20–25	25–23	21–25		87–98	P2 Report
22 Aug	20:00	Argentina	1–3	France	20–25	25–22	21–25	19–25		85–97	P2 Report
22 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–0	Ukraine	25–20	25–23	28–26			78–69	P2 Report
22 Aug	20:00	Tunisia	1–3	Indonesia	25–22	21–25	18–25	19–25		83–97	P2 Report
23 Aug	20:00	Argentina	3–0	Tunisia	25–17	25–21	25–23			75–61	P2 Report
23 Aug	20:00	Ukraine	3–2	Indonesia	25–18	26–28	25–22	23–25	15–7	114–100	P2 Report
23 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–1	France	25–22	22–25	25–23	25–23		97–93	P2 Report
25 Aug	20:00	France	3–1	Ukraine	25–20	25–23	20–25	25–17		95–85	P2 Report
25 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–0	Tunisia	25–17	25–13	25–18			75–48	P2 Report
25 Aug	20:00	Argentina	3–2	Indonesia	23–25	27–25	23–25	25–20	15–13	113–108	P2 Report
26 Aug	20:00	France	3–0	Indonesia	25–23	25–21	25–21			75–65	P2 Report
26 Aug	20:00	Italy	3–0	Argentina	25–18	25–18	25–17			75–53	P2 Report
26 Aug	20:00	Tunisia	0–3	Ukraine	13–25	18–25	20–25			51–75	P2 Report

• All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

21st place match

21st–24th semifinals

17th–24th quarterfinals

17th–20th semifinals

17th place match

27 August

Thailand

29 August

Colombia

29 August

27 August

Canada

30 August

Tunisia

30 August

27 August

Brazil

29 August

Morocco

29 August

23rd place match

19th place match

30 August

27 August

30 August

Indonesia

Puerto Rico

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Aug	11:00	Thailand	–	Colombia	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	14:00	Brazil	–	Morocco	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	17:00	Canada	–	Tunisia	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	20:00	Indonesia	–	Puerto Rico	–	–	–			0–0	Report

9th place match

9th–12th semifinals

9th–16th quarterfinals

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

27 August

United States

29 August

29 August

Bulgaria

27 August

France

30 August

30 August

Kazakhstan

27 August

Italy

29 August

29 August

South Korea

27 August

Egypt

31 August

31 August

Cuba

27 August

Iran

29 August

29 August

Argentina

11th place match

3rd place match

27 August

31 August

31 August

Japan

30 August

30 August

China

27 August

Czech Republic

29 August

29 August

Turkey

13th place match

13th–16th semifinals

5th–8th semifinals

5th place match

27 August

30 August

30 August

Poland

31 August

Ukraine

31 August

30 August

30 August

15th place match

7th place match

31 August

31 August

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Aug	11:00	France	–	Kazakhstan	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	11:00	United States	–	Bulgaria	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	14:00	Iran	–	Argentina	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	14:00	Egypt	–	Cuba	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	17:00	Poland	–	Ukraine	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	17:00	Czech Republic	–	Turkey	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	20:00	Japan	–	China	–	–	–			0–0	Report
27 Aug	20:00	Italy	–	South Korea	–	–	–			0–0	Report

Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Qualified for the 2028 World Championship

The following individual awards will be presented at the end of the tournament.

• 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship
• 2025 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
• 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship

• Official website