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Women's European Volleyball Championship
Founded in 1949, the tournament was initially held annually for the first three years, however, since 1975 the tournament has had a structure in place is has been held every two years with the number of competitors increasing over the years, it has been as low as six which has gradually increased over the years and since 2019 there have been twenty-four countries competing.
Womens European Volleyball Championship Content
- Womens European Volleyball Championship Preview
- Womens European Volleyball Championship Past Winners
- Womens European Volleyball Championship Betting Tips
- Womens European Volleyball Championship Medal Table
Since 2011 the tournament has adopted a joint/co-host stance, the 2011, 2013, 2015 & 2017 tournaments all had co-hosts, something that had only previously been done in 2007 and then the past three tournaments have had co-hosts with four countries sharing the hosting rights.
FIVB Volleyball Womens World Cup Preview & Betting Guide
2026 Women's European Volleyball Championship Preview
Like the men's equivalent of the continental tournaments, it was announced by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball that all continental tournaments would take place in even-numbered years, meaning the next tournament will take place in 2026 instead of 2025.
The tournament is expected to continue with the co-hosting between four countries, a feature that has now been seen in the past three tournaments.
Turkey won their first-ever gold medal in 2023 when defeating Serbia 3-2 in the final having previously won silver twice and three bronzes.
Serbia has now made the last four finals and is one of the more consistent performers at this tournament, they won it in both 2017 & 2019 but have been defeated in their last two finals.
FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Preview & Betting Guide
Women's European Volleyball Championship Past Winners
Back-to-back winners are not that uncommon, as you can see below Poland (2003-05), Italy (2007-09), Russia (2013-15) & Serbia (2017-19) all successfully defended their title once, the only countries not to do so were Serbia (2013) & Italy (2023). The finals are not really that close either, only three of the last ten needed all five sets to decide the winner and three have been 3-0 whitewashes.
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Turkey | 3–2 | Serbia |
| 2021 | Italy | 3–1 | Serbia |
| 2019 | Serbia | 3–2 | Turkey |
| 2017 | Serbia | 3–1 | Netherlands |
| 2015 | Russia | 3–0 | Netherlands |
| 2013 | Russia | 3–1 | Germany |
| 2011 | Serbia | 3–2 | Germany |
| 2009 | Italy | 3–0 | Netherlands |
| 2007 | Italy | 3–0 | Serbia |
| 2005 | Poland | 3–1 | Italy |
Women's European Volleyball Championship Betting Tips
The OLBG volleyball tipsters will be making their Women's European Volleyball Championship predictions throughout the tournament and these will be found on our Volleyball Predictions page, each match that is scheduled will be listed there along with the most predicted outcome for each game.
Alternatively, head over to the Best Volleyball Tipsters to find tips from tipsters who have made a volleyball profit over the past year, these are the only tipsters who are shown on this page.
CEV Women's Champions League Preview & Betting Guide
Favourite Statistics
When you compare this tournament to the World Cup (86%) and the World Championships (82%) then this tournament is on par with a success rate of 83%. There have been 147 favourites at 1.10 or shorter and 143 of those went on to win, that is a 97% success rate as you expect for such short odds. If you are looking to take on favourites then pick wisely as there is not really a range of odds that do not perform well, 1.41 or bigger have a success rate of 63% so that would be a good starting point.
- 2015: 29-36 (80.56%)
- 2017: 29-36 (80.56%)
- 2019: 65-76 (85.53%)
- 2021: 64-76 (84.21%)
- 2023: 65-75 (86.67%)
- Overall: 187-224 (83.48%)
Set Score Statistics
With the favourite statistics above, it is no surprise that a clean-sweep 3-0 accounts for over half of the games with 52% of the games finishing in three games, the average from 300 games is 3.64 sets per game. Only 17% of the games (50) needed all five sets to decide the outcome and then 31% of the games finished in four sets.
- 3-0: 97 Games (32.33%)
- 0-3: 60 Games (20.00%)
- 3-1: 48 Games (16.00%)
- 1-3: 45 Games (15.00%)
- 3-2: 31 Games (10.33%)
- 2-3: 19 Games (06.33%)
Women's European Volleyball Championship Medal Table
Look at any international volleyball tournament men's or women's and more often than not you will find the Soviet Union heading the medal table as they did dominate the international volleyball scene for a large number of years. They won ten of the first eleven tournaments and then added another three wins over the next five tournaments giving them a total of thirteen gold medals, they actually made the first seventeen finals picking up silver medals in four of those. Russia have made 9 finals, picking up the gold medal in six of those, more than double the next best which is Italy and Serbia on three wins apiece.
| Rank | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Soviet Union | 13 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
| 2nd | Russia | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 3rd | Serbia | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 4th | Italy | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5th | Poland | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
Other Volleyball Blogs
You have links to the other women's tournament blogs above, below are links to to the men's equivalence of each tournament.
