The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the seventh edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. It took place from 11 June to 3 August 2025, with the final round held at the Beilun Gymnasium in Ningbo, China.
Following the results of the 2024 Challenger Cup, China made their comeback this edition, while Ukraine made their debut as the top FIVB ranked team.
Poland claimed their second title after defeating Italy in the final. Italy's silver was their first medal in the tournament. Brazil defeated Slovenia in the third place match. Jakub Kochanowski of Poland was named the MVP of the tournament.
Teams Qualification Starting with this edition of the competition, the league was expanded from 16 to 18 teams. Due to this change of format none of the teams from the previous was relegated. The two additional spots were allocated to China, the winner of the 2024 Challenger Cup, and to Ukraine, the top-ranked non-qualified FIVB team.
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Squads
Format Preliminary round The format of play is generally the same as in the 2022 edition. However, this is the first time that 18 men's teams are competing. Each week, six teams will compete during the pool phase. Each team plays 12 matches during the pool stage. During three weeks, each team plays four times in a table that is set up by an algorithm, with all teams playing 12 times in total at the end of the first phase. The eight best teams advance to the quarter-finals, while the last-placed team loses its place to the highest FIVB-ranked team that did not compete this year. The only country that has already qualified for this phase is China for hosting the finals and if it does not finish the first phase among the top eight, the top seven will qualify with the Chinese team being ranked 8th.
Final round The VNL Finals will see the top eight teams moving directly to the knockout phase, which will consist of eight matches in total: four quarterfinals, two semi-finals, and the bronze and gold medal matches.
Final 8 direct elimination formula: The first ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the eighth ranked team, the second ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the seventh ranked team, the third ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the sixth ranked team, and the fourth ranked team will play a quarterfinal match against the fifth ranked team. The national team of the hosting territory of the event will have a guaranteed berth for the Final round. If the host nation team do not finish in the top eight in the Preliminary round, they will replace the eighth place team and play as the eighth seed.
Pool composition The overview of pools was released on 10 December 2024.
Week 1Week 2Week 3Pool 1CanadaPool 2BrazilPool 3ChinaPool 4BulgariaPool 5United StatesPool 6SerbiaPool 7PolandPool 8SloveniaPool 9Japan
Venues Preliminary round Week 1Pool 1Pool 2Pool 3Quebec City, CanadaRio de Janeiro, BrazilXi'an, ChinaVideotron CentreMaracanãzinhoQujiang Sports CenterCapacity: 18,800Capacity: 12,000Capacity: 10,000Week 2Pool 4Pool 5Pool 6Burgas, BulgariaHoffman Estates, United StatesBelgrade, SerbiaArena BurgasNow ArenaBelgrade ArenaCapacity: 6,100Capacity: 10,543Capacity: 18,386 Week 3Pool 7Pool 8Pool 9Gdańsk, PolandLjubljana, SloveniaChiba, JapanErgo ArenaArena StožiceChiba Port ArenaCapacity: 11,409Capacity: 12,480Capacity: 7,512
Final round All matchesNingbo, ChinaBeilun GymnasiumCapacity: 8,000
Competition schedule ●Preliminary round●Final round
Week 111–15 JunWeek 225–29 JunWeek 316–20 JulWeek 430 Jul – 3 Aug36 matches36 matches36 matches8 matches
Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply, with the teams ranked by the most points gained per match as follows: 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 If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Sets quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all sets won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the sets quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. If the tie persists based on the points quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match between the tied teams during the Round Robin Phase. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, these teams will be ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Preliminary round Ranking
Week 1 Pool 1 All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00).
Pool 2 All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
Pool 3 All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Week 2 Pool 4 All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
Pool 5 All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).
Pool 6 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Week 3 Pool 7 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 8 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool 9 All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Final round All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam456789101112131415161718
14–man rosterJakub Popiwczak, Marcin Komenda, Wilfredo León, Bartosz Bednorz, Artur Szalpuk, Jakub Kochanowski (c), Kamil Semeniuk, Maksymilian Granieczny, Tomasz Fornal, Bartłomiej Bołądź, Szymon Jakubiszak, Kewin Sasak, Jakub Nowak, Jan FirlejHead coach Nikola Grbić
Awards
Most valuable player Jakub Kochanowski Best setter Simone Giannelli Best outside spikers Wilfredo León Alessandro Michieletto Best opposite spiker Kewin Sasak Best middle blockers Jan Kozamernik Jakub Kochanowski Best libero Maique Nascimento
Statistics leaders Preliminary round Statistics leaders correct at the end of preliminary round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 20022152372 Théo Faure19410212253 1867172104 Aleksandar Nikolov17715162085 165718190
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 2006914448.434132 Théo Faure1945614948.623993 1865713349.473764 Aleksandar Nikolov1775412449.863555 1655113347.28349
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Yurii Semeniuk3755473.081392 Aleksandar Nedeljković3566542.921553 Agustín Loser3454592.831474 Javier Concepción3155382.581245 François Huetz2845542.33127
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Ramazan Efe Mandıracı26281102.171642 Théo Faure21491701.752403 18391211.50178 Morteza Sharifi1833851.80136 Alessandro Michieletto1827912.25136
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Fernando Kreling392247832.678722 Matías Sánchez346555628.839073 Murat Yenipazar290063224.179224 Simone Giannelli266445922.17729266644722.17719
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Maique Nascimento10156618.422182 8555417.081813 Tomohiro Ogawa8028666.671744 7835416.501545 Tom Koops7523416.25139 7538366.25149
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Tom Koops1061721131.743342 Maique Nascimento761314931.932383 731214032.442254 681218525.662655 Jeffrey Klok661616227.05244
Final round Statistics leaders correct at the end of final round.
Best ScorersPlayerAttacksBlocksServesTotal1 Alessandro Michieletto3767502 Alan Souza4042463 Rok Možič3760434 Kewin Sasak2964395 Tonček Štern351036
Best AttackersPlayerSpikesFaultsShots1 Alan Souza40132650.63792 Alessandro Michieletto37103346.2580 Rok Možič37133245.12824 Tonček Štern35132349.30715 Kewin Sasak2941758.0050
Best BlockersPlayerFaultsRebounds1 Jan Kozamernik89152.67322 Matheus Santos79112.3327 Jakub Kochanowski7662.33194 Marcin Komenda6382.0017 Kewin Sasak6482.0018 Alessandro Michieletto6462.0016 Uroš Planinšič6452.0015 Rok Možič614102.0030
Best ServersPlayerAcesFaultsHits1 Alessandro Michieletto78302.33452 Matheus Santos58291.6742 Fernando Kreling55401.67504 Kewin Sasak48301.3342 Simone Giannelli49401.3353 Kamil Rychlicki49161.3329
Best SettersPlayerFaults1 Fernando Kreling115113338.332492 Uroš Planinšič86013828.672243 Simone Giannelli84013728.002214 Marcin Komenda63110821.001725 Antoine Brizard3304333.0076
Best DiggersPlayerDigsFaultsReceptions1 Alan Souza20436.67272 Jakub Popiwczak195106.33343 Maique Nascimento18496.0031 Daniele Lavia18656.0029 Jani Kovačič1822116.0051
Best ReceiversPlayerExcellentsFaults1 Fabio Balaso2224730.99712 Jani Kovačič1924130.65623 Ricardo Lucarelli1423328.5749 Daniele Lavia1444522.22635 Tomasz Fornal1321346.4328 Žiga Štern13104319.7066
See also 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship 2025 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
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