2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship

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).{{cite press release |title=Get Ready For More Volleyball Spectacles: Bidding Process Opens For Age Group World Championships In 2025! |url=https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/get-ready-for-more-volleyball-spectacles-bidding?id=101314 |publisher=FIVB |access-date=2 September 2024 |date=28 March 2024}} The expression of interest of the member associations had to be submitted to FIVB by 30 April 2024, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2).{{cite web |title=FIVB VOLLEYBALL AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025 Expression of Interest & Hosting Conditions|url=https://www.fivb.com/-/media/2024/volleyball/fivb-vbe-2025-age%20groupu19-u21wch-expression%20of%20interest%20and%20organisational%20conditions.pdf?la=en |publisher=FIVB |date=28 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402105341/https://www.fivb.com/-/media/2024/volleyball/fivb-vbe-2025-age%20groupu19-u21wch-expression%20of%20interest%20and%20organisational%20conditions.pdf?la=en|archive-date=2 April 2024}}

On 10 September 2024, FIVB announced that Indonesia was selected as the host for the 2024 Girls' U21 World Championship.{{cite press release |author= |title=FIVB U19 and U21 Volleyball World Championships hosts announced! |url=https://www.fivb.com/fivb-u19-and-u21-volleyball-world-championships-hosts-announced/ |publisher=FIVB |date=10 September 2024 |access-date=10 September 2024}}

A total of 24 national teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to the host team and the defending champions who qualified automatically, 21 other teams will qualify through five separate continental competitions which were required to be held no later than 31 December 2024. Two remaining teams will enter the tournament via the Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking (as of 31 December 2024) among the teams not yet qualified.

The slot allocation per confederation was set as follows:

• Defending champion (China): 1
• AVC (Asia & Oceania): 4
• CAVB (Africa): 3
• CEV (Europe): 6
• CSV (South America): 3
• NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean): 4
• Host: 1
• Top teams not yet qualified as per Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking: 2

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).{{cite press release |title=Upcoming Volleyball Events Discussed At Volleyball Council Meeting |url=https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/upcoming-volleyball-events-discussed-at-volleyball-council?id=100612 |publisher=FIVB |access-date=2 September 2024 |date=2 December 2022}} Consequently, the distribution of quotas by confederation for the Women's U21 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 formula was in line with the one adopted for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, which was also contested by 24 teams.{{cite web |title=Formula |url=https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/women-u21-world-championship-2023/competition/formula |website=Volleyball World |access-date=2 September 2024}}

The draw for the pools composition will held on 4 December 2024 at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.{{cite web|url=https://www.fivb.com/2025-fivb-volleyball-youth-world-championships-pools-to-be-drawn-on-4-december/|title=2025 FIVB Volleyball Youth World Championships' pools to be drawn on 4 December|publisher=FIVB|website=fivb.com|date=26 November 2024}} The 24 participating teams will be split into four single round-robin pools of six with the host nations and the reigning world champions receiving the highest seeds. The rest of the qualified teams are seeded in a serpentine system based on their positions in the respective FIVB World Rankings.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvIhvJnoc20|title=Drawing of Lots - Volleyball Youth World Championship 2025|publisher=FIVB|via=YouTube|date=4 December 2024}}

Women's U21 FIVB World Ranking of each team as of 30 September 2024 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Indonesia which does not have a world ranking.

The draw procedure 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 were placed in line 4 of each pool starting from pool D to pool A.
• Teams from pot 1 were then drawn and placed in line 3 of each pool starting from pool A to pool D.

The pools composition after the draw was as follow:

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According to the new competition format, the top four teams from the final standings in each pool will advance to the eighthfinals, while the remaining two will continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from 17th to 24th.

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• All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

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