United States, Canada and Cuba Qualified to Men’s 2025 World Championship

September 3, 2024.- The FIVB revealed the participants of the 2025 Men’s Volleyball World Championship that will take place in the Philippines featuring 32 national teams, with USA, Canada and Cuba representing NORCECA.

Next year’s edition of the event will be the first to be held biannually.

The men’s tournament has two automatic qualifiers – hosts the Philippines and defending champions Italy. As part of the new qualification system, 15 spots were awarded during the 2023 Continental Championships, with Current NORCECA Champions the United States (ranked No.3), Canada (ranked No.11) and Cuba (ranked No.12).

Egypt, Algeria and Libya emerging from Africa, Japan, Iran and Qatar qualifying in Asia, Poland, Slovenia and France taking the European berths, and Argentina, Brazil and Colombia representing South America.

The remaining 15 spots were allocated to the best national teams in the FIVB World Rankings as of August 30, 2024, not yet qualified – Germany, Serbia, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Belgium, Türkiye, Czechia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Finland, Tunisia, China, Romania, Chile and Korea.

The men’s World Championship will be held in the Philippines from September 12-28, 2025, and the Drawing of Lots will take place in Manila, on September 14, 2024, at 19:30 local time (11:30 GMT), and will be streamed live and for free on VBTV and Volleyball World’s YouTube channel.