This tournament will be hosted not in the capital city (Jakarta), but in Surabaya (East Java), the second largest city, located app. 700 km east to Jakarta (1.5-hour flight).
COMPETITION FORMAT: 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship
https://en.volleyballworld.com…nship/competition/formula
2025 Age Group Competition Format
The 24 participating teams are split into FOUR single round-robin pools of SIX TEAMS each for the first stage of the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship.
The TOP FOUR TEAMS in the final standings of each pool advance to the EIGHTHFINALS.
The eight eighthfinal winners advance to the quarterfinals.
The eight eighthfinal losers continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from ninth to 16th.
The bottom two teams in the final standings of each pool continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from 17th to 24th.
All 24 teams go through another three rounds of direct up-or-down matches (quarterfinals, semifinals and final for the winners; playoffs and classification matches for the losers) to fill all the places from first to 24th in the final competition standings.