2025 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

Starting with this edition, the tournament was expanded from 20 to 24 teams, following the decision adopted by FIVB in June 2023.

Host selection

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). The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 30 April 2024, 18:00 CEST ().

FIVB announced the hosts for its four Age Group World Championship on 10 September 2024, with Uzbekistan being selected to host the 2025 Boys' U19 World Championship. This will be the first time that Uzbekistan will host an FIVB volleyball event in any category.

Qualification

A total of 24 national teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to the host Uzbekistan and defending champions France which qualified automatically, 20 other teams qualified through five separate continental competitions which had to be completed by 31 December 2024 at the latest. Two remaining teams entered the tournament via the Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking (as of 24 September 2024) among the teams not yet qualified.

The slot allocation was set as follows:

• Defending champion (France): 1
• Host (Uzbekistan): 1
• AVC (Asia & Oceania): 4
• CAVB (Africa): 3
• CEV (Europe): 6
• CSV (South America): 3
• NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean): 4
• Top teams not yet qualified as per Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking: 2

Qualified teams

The following twenty-four teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

The draw was held on 4 December 2024, 13:30 , at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 24 participating teams were split into four pools of six. The hosts Croatia and Serbia, defending champions United States and the top five teams of the Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking ( were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system. FIVB reserved the right to seed the host teams as heads of pools A and B regardless of their position in the World Ranking (with the highest ranked team as head of Pool A and next ranked team as head of Pool B). The remaining 16 non-seeded teams were allocated into four pots according to their position in the same Girls' U19 FIVB World Ranking, in order to be drawn to complete the following four positions in each pool.

Seeding

Boys' U19 FIVB World Ranking of each team are shown in brackets, except the hosts Uzbekistan who ranked 58th.

Draw

The draw procedure for the pools composition also followed the serpentine system and was as follows:

• 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 placed in line 4 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
• Teams from pot 1 were drawn at the end and were placed in line 3 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:

Venues

On 11 October 2024, FIVB confirmed Tashkent as the host city. The competition is entirely played at the Saxovat Sport Servis sport complex located in the Yunusabad district.

Competition format and changes

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). Consequently, the distribution of quotas by confederation for the Boys' U19 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.

The new competition format is in line with the one adopted for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship. The 24 teams were split into four single round-robin pools of six with the top four teams from each pool advancing to the round of 16, while the ramaining two teams continuing their participation in the playoffs for places from 17th to 24th. The round of 16 winners advances to the quarter-finals, while the losers continue their participation in the playoffs for places from 9th to 16th. Finally, the 24 teams go through another three rounds: quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals for each team's final placement level (17th–24th, 9th–16th and 1st–8th).

Pool standing procedure

The ranking of teams in the preliminary round was established according the following criteria:

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost);
2. Match points;
3. * Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
4. * Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
5. * Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
6. Sets ratio;
7. Points ratio;
8. 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.

Squads

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 2007 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Preliminary round

• All times are Uzbekistan Time ().

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Final round

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17th–24th places

17th–24th quarterfinals

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21st–24th semifinals

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17th–20th semifinals

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23rd place match

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21st place match

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19th place match

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17th place match

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1st–16th places

Round of 16

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9th–16th quarterfinals

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Quarterfinals

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13th–16th semifinals

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9th–12th semifinals

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5th–8th semifinals

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Semifinals

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15th place match

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13th place match

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11th place match

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9th place match

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7th place match

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5th place match

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final standing

Awards

The following individual awards were presented at the end of the tournament.

Statistics leaders

The statistics of leaders for each skill are recorded throughout the tournament.

See also

• 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship
• 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship
• 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship

Notes

References

External links