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Preview and how to watch VNL action live
The road to Ningbo starts now for the best men’s volleyball teams in the world at the 2025 FIVB men’s Volleyball Nations League (11 June – 3 August). After the women’s competition got underway on 4 June, the men follow suit the following week among the 18 national teams competing to reach the final round […]
The road to Ningbo starts now for the best men’s volleyball teams in the world at the 2025 FIVB men’s Volleyball Nations League (11 June – 3 August).
After the women’s competition got underway on 4 June, the men follow suit the following week among the 18 national teams competing to reach the final round in the People’s Republic of China.
Of those qualified nations, there are three former VNL winners. Defending champions France arrive as the double Olympic champions following their momentous gold at Paris 2024, a few weeks after they had claimed their second Nations League title.
Olympic silver medallists Poland last lifted the VNL trophy in 2023, and with one of the final round pools being played in Gdansk, will hope the home advantage can help them over the line and into the finals.
The only present champion not from the European continent are Brazil, one of only two South American nations to have qualified. Can they hit their stride ahead of the Volleyball World Championships later this year in the Philippines?
Here is what you need to know about the 2025 men’s VNL.