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FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Preview
2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
The 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will be the twentieth edition of the tournament and will be hosted in Thailand with the tournament starting on the 22nd of August and being completed on the 7th of September.
Serbia who won their first-ever championship in 2018 and followed that up four years later in 2022 will be looking for a third consecutive title, a feat that has only ever been done once when the Soviet Union won the first three tournaments.
Brazil are yet to win this tournament, however, they have made four of the last eight finals, winning silver in all and have made the last four in six of the last eight season tournaments, they added a bronze in 2014 and could be a threat.
When looking at the hosts, the fact they are hosting is not something to read too much into, the Soviet Union (1952) and Japan (1967) are the two hosts to only ever go on to win the tournament they hosted and none since that Japan success in 1967.
History of the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
Founded in 1952, the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship takes place every four years where a total of twenty-four countries compete to win the gold medal.
The first-ever tournament was staged in the Soviet Union and the hosts went on to win that tournament which was their first of what would be five gold medals.
The second tournament was staged in France and the third in Brazil and it was much of the same with the Soviet Union winning the first three tournaments.
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FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Past Winners
As already pointed out, Serbia will be looking to become only the second country to successfully win three on the bounce, the only other who achieved this feat was the Soviet Union (1952, 56 & 60) the only country to win three on the bounce.
Brazil has made four of the last eight finals, China went on a run of four finals in five tournaments but since 2002 has only made one final, however, was third at the last tournament and runner-up in the previous one so not one to rule out.
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Serbia | 3–0 | Brazil |
| 2018 | Serbia | 3–2 | Italy |
| 2014 | United States | 3–1 | China |
| 2010 | Russia | 3–2 | Brazil |
| 2006 | Russia | 3–2 | Brazil |
| 2002 | Italy | 3–2 | United States |
| 1998 | Cuba | 3–0 | China |
| 1994 | Cuba | 3–0 | Brazil |
| 1990 | Soviet Union | 3–1 | China |
| 1986 | China | 3–1 | Cuba |
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Favourite Statistics
Favourites have been strong in this tournament, over the last four championships, on average 81% of the favourites have gone on to be successful, at the 2018 tournament that number of 83%! These numbers may be high because there has been a large number of short-priced favourites, 190 of them priced up 1.10 or shorter and those priced up at those prices have a success rate of 96.32%. If you are looking for a favourite to oppose then those priced up at 1.50 or bigger have a 51% success rate and those at 1.70 or bigger have just a 40% success rate.
- 2010: 81-104 (77.88%)
- 2014: 85-102 (83.33%)
- 2018: 86-103 (83.50%)
- 2022: 81-100 (81.00%)
- Overall: 252-309 (81.55%)
Set Score Statistics
When you consider that 513 games over the last five tournaments have averaged just 3.59 sets then it is no surprise that the 3-0/0-3 scorelines are by far the most popular outcome, a massive 56.92% of the games (292-513) have ended in a straight-set win, only just over a quarter of the games (27.29%) have ended in four sets whilst a small 15.79% needed all five sets to find a winner. With the odds statistics and a lot of very short-priced favourites, it really is no surprise to see so many straight-set winners.
- 3-0: 194 Games (37.82%)
- 0-3: 98 Games (19.10%)
- 3-1: 95 Games (18.52%)
- 3-2: 50 Games (09.75%)
- 1-3: 45 Games (08.77%)
- 2-3: 31 Games (06.04%)
FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Medal Table
After winning the first three tournaments (1952, 1956 & 1960) the Soviet Union lept to the top of the leaderboard, this was not just the case in this tournament, they did it across multiple volleyball tournaments as they stamped their authority on the sport. Japan was the first country to end the Soviet Union's run in 1962 when picking up the gold and leaving just the silver for the Soviet Union and then Japan backed that up five years later in 1967.
Both 1970 & 1974 saw gold and silver also go to those two, gold for the Soviet Union in 1970 and gold for Japan in 1974, however, Japan has not won gold since then and further success for the Soviet Union in 1990 left them two golds clear of Japan. Cuba won their first gold in 1978 and then picked up back-to-back wins in 1994 & 1998 which meant they equalled Japan's tally of three golds.
| Rank | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Soviet Union | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2nd | Japan | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 3rd | Cuba | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 4th | China | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 5th | Russia | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 6th | Serbia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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