36 nationwide groups will race for VNL honours from 4 June to three August
- VNL 2025 to be performed with 18 groups per gender for the primary time
- The groups are break up into three swimming pools of six for each competitors week of the Preliminary Part
- Girls’s VNL gold medal showdown to be performed on 27 July, the lads’s ultimate on 3 August
2025 will supply the seventh version of the annual Volleyball Nations League, which may also be the primary one with an expanded line-up of 18 nationwide groups per gender, following the introduction of a brand new format aiming to reinforce the VNL expertise for athletes, followers, host cities and all different stakeholders alike. The purpose is to make sure the VNL continues to be a spectacular top-calibre competitors sparking volleyball fever internationally.
As common, the VNL will happen at the start of the nationwide staff season, with the primary video games to be performed on 4 June and the final – on 3 August.
To increase the variety of groups, not one of the individuals within the 2024 version had been relegated, whereas the 2024 Volleyball Challenger Cup winner and the world’s highest-ranked staff in every gender earned the fitting to hitch VNL 2025. For the primary time, the individuals are now not divided into core and challenger groups, which implies that whoever takes the underside 18th place within the competitors’s ultimate standings in every gender might be relegated, to get replaced by the respective highest-ranked staff (not but certified) for the next VNL season.
With the expanded variety of taking part groups, there might be a brand new construction of the Preliminary Part schedule. Every taking part staff will nonetheless play 12 matches unfold throughout three competitors weeks. Nevertheless, now there might be three swimming pools per week performed at three totally different venues with six groups every. The variety of competitors days might be decreased from six to 5 per week. The gamers may also profit from a further week of relaxation. There might be no VNL competitors for both gender throughout the week after the second competitors week within the males’s event.
On this new format, a complete of 216 matches will happen throughout the Preliminary Part, which brings the overall variety of video games per season to 232, together with the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the medal matches in each genders. There might be no change within the format of the Remaining Rounds.
The ladies’s VNL 2024 ultimate in Bangkok
Girls’s Volleyball Nations League 2025
After profitable the final version of the ladies’s Volleyball Challenger Cup in 2024, Czechia at the moment are set to make their rookie look within the VNL. After a two-year absence, Belgium return to the VNL incomes that proper because the highest-ranked staff within the FIVB World Rating.
They’re becoming a member of the 16 groups that competed for VNL honours in 2024: three-time VNL champions United States of America, two-time winners and reigning Olympic champions Italy, VNL 2023 winners Türkiye, 2024 runners-up Japan, two-time back-to-back bronze medallists Poland, three-time silver medallists Brazil, three-time medallists China, reigning world champions Serbia, in addition to Bulgaria, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Korea, Netherlands and Thailand.
2024 VNL champions Italy will begin the defence of their title in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a remake of the Olympic ultimate in Paris in opposition to USA. The opposite swimming pools of the primary competitors week, from 4 to eight June, might be hosted by Beijing in China and Ottawa in Canada. For the second competitors week, from 18 to 22 June, the ladies’s VNL will go to Hong Kong in China, Istanbul in Türkiye and Belgrade in Serbia. Lastly, Kanto in Japan, Apeldoorn within the Netherlands and Arlington within the USA will welcome the deciding third competitors week battles from 9 to 13 July.
The Remaining Spherical might be performed from 23 to 27 July.
Males’s Volleyball Nations League 2025
China will mark their return to the lads’s VNL. They had been relegated in 2023 and didn’t take part in 2024, however made certain their absence didn’t last more than a season by profitable the 2024 Volleyball Challenger Cup. In the meantime, Ukraine claimed the fitting to compete in VNL 2025 through the FIVB World Rating and are set to make their rookie look within the competitors.
They’ll contest the spots within the Remaining Spherical with final yr’s individuals: two-time VNL winners and reigning back-to-back Olympic champions France, 2023 VNL winners Poland, 2021 VNL winners Brazil, four-time VNL medallists USA, final yr’s runners-up Japan, reigning world champions Italy, in addition to Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Germany, Iran, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia and Türkiye.
The Preliminary Part will begin on 11 June. The primary competitors week’s swimming pools might be hosted by Xi’an in China, Quebec Metropolis in Canada and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil with motion ending on 15 June. For the second competitors week from 25 to 29 June, the 18 taking part groups will break up between Burgas in Bulgaria, Belgrade in Serbia and Chicago within the USA. The deciding matches within the race for the Remaining Spherical spots might be welcomed by Kanto in Japan, Gdansk in Poland and Ljubljana in Slovenia and can happen from 15 to twenty July.
The Finals might be held from 30 July to three August.
VNL 2025 – official web site
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