2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship

The 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship will be the 21st staging of the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).

Starting this staging, the World Championship will be expanded to include 32 teams, increasing from 24 teams. The tournament will thus also be held biannually instead of quadrennially.

Host selection
Around 31 countries expressed interest to host the tournament. This figure was reduced to a three final candidates; Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.


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On 20 March 2024, FIVB announced that the Philippines will host the tournament.

Qualification
The qualification stage of the competition consists of four categories. The host(s) will secure the first place(s). The current world champions Italy also automatically qualifies. The top three teams from each of the latest Continental Championships also qualifies (a total of 15 slots). The 15 final slots will be allocated to the top teams who had not yet qualified as per FIVB World Ranking at the end of the August 2024,when the current national teams season ends.

Pool phase
In the pool phase, the 32 teams will spread across eight pools of four teams playing in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each pool then advance to the direct elimination phase.

Direct elimination phase
In the direct elimination phase, the 16 teams will be matched-up into knock-out stage: the winners will advance to the next stage, and the losers will be eliminated from the competition.

Pools composition
The draw of lots is scheduled to take place on 24 September 2024 in a yet to be announced venue in Metro Manila.


 * Draw

Venues
Both the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City and the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay were the first two confirmed locations for the championship. There are possibilities for the finals to be held at the Mall of Asia Arena due to its capacity and the tecnical reasons.Another host cities will be confirmed later. The latter will be used for matches of the final round.

Preliminary round

 * All times are local.

Final round

 * All times are local.