The 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Nations Cup was the first and final edition under this name, and the fourth overall edition of the tournament formerly known as the AVC Women's Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of Vietnam (VFV). It was held from 7 to 14 June 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

As the FIVB Volleyball Nations League restructured its format and abolished the Challenger Cup as a direct qualifier to the tournament, this tournament would served to countries currently not participating in the Nations League to garner world ranking points for a chance to enter the said competition. Vietnam, the champions of this tournament qualified for the 2026 Asian Championship.

Host Vietnam won their third consecutive title after defeating the Philippines in the final. Chinese Taipei defeated Kazakhstan in the 3rd place match and took the bronze medal. Nguyễn Thị Bích Tuyền was named as the MVP of the tournament for the second time.

Host selection Vietnam had submitted its bid to host the tournament and have been approved by AVC on 9 April 2025. AVC has sent an official document to the Volleyball Federation of Vietnam.

Qualification

Following AVC regulations, a maximum of 12 teams for the next AVC Nations Cup were selected through the following criteria:

1 team for the host country 6 other top-ranked teams from the previous edition (2024) 5 other highest-ranked entrant teams in the FIVB Senior World Rankings If a team does not have world ranking points, the final decision will be made by AVC in consultation with Volleyball World and the host country.

CountryZoneQualified asQualified onPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastSAVAHost country15 April 2025220232024Champions (2023, 2024)CAVA2024 Challenge Cup runners-up29 May 202412024Runners-up (2024)SAVA2024 Challenge Cup 3rd placers29 May 20242202320243rd place (2024)OZVA2024 Challenge Cup 4th placers29 May 20242202320244th place (2024)CAVA2024 Challenge Cup 5th placers29 May 2024320222024Runners-up (2022)CAVA2024 Challenge Cup 6th placers29 May 20242202320245th place (2023)SAVA2024 Challenge Cup 7th placers15 April 2025220232024Runners-up (2023)EAVA1st World ranked non-qualified team15 April 20252202320243rd place (2023)SAVA2nd World ranked non-qualified team15 April 20252202220245th place (2022)EAVA15 April 2025320222024Champions (2022)EAVAAdditional entrant teams6 May 20251202310th place (2023)OZVA6 May 20250NoneDebutWAVA0NoneNone

, , , and which are part of the 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League are ineligible to submit entries to this tournament.

Pools composition The draw of lots took place on 25 May 2025 at the Edsa Shangri-La, Manila in Mandaluyong, Philippines. Unlike in the men's tournament, the teams were divided into two pools due to not reaching the maximum participation limit of 12 teams.

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their standings in the previous edition. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st.

Pool APool B (Hosts) (2) (4) (3) (5) (6) (8) (7) (9) (–) (–)

Venue Hanoi, VietnamĐông Anh GymnasiumCapacity: 2,650

Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point 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, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Set 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 set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set 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 point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

Preliminary round All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

9th–11th places

9th–11th semifinals

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam4567891011 Qualified for the 2026 AVC Continental Championshipand the 2026 AVC Cup

14–woman rosterTrần Thị Thanh Thúy (c), Lưu Thị Ly Ly, Lê Thanh Thúy, Nguyễn Thị Bích Tuyền, Hoàng Thị Kiều Trinh, Nguyễn Khánh Đang, Võ Thị Kim Thoa, Nguyễn Thị Trinh, Vi Thị Như Quỳnh, Nguyễn Thị Phương, Phạm Thị Hiền, Đoàn Thị Lâm Oanh, Nguyễn Thị Uyên, Trần Thị Bích ThủyHead coachNguyễn Tuấn Kiệt

Awards

Most valuable player

Best setter

Best outside spikers

Best middle blockers

Best opposite spiker

Best libero

Broadcasting rights Country/region BroadcasterGlobalVolleyball TV, YouTubeEmtek (Vidio, Moji)Cignal (One Sports, Pilipinas Live)Vietnam Television (VTVCab)

Notes

References

External links

2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Nations Cup at Volleyball World