 "Beach Volleyball World Championships Adelaide 2025")
It is finally time for beach volleyball’s event of the year! The Adelaide 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are about to get underway in Australia, serving off in the morning of Friday, November 14, and lasting through Sunday, November 23, when the champions of the 15th edition of the sport’s premier competition will triumph with their trophies. From the very start of the men’s tournament, the level of excitement will be on high as the current number one team in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking, Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway, will appear on court 2 for one of the event’s opening matches.
Beach Volleyball World Championships Adelaide 2025
Just hours away from anticipated serve-off of Beach Volleyball World Champs in Australia
World Ranking leaders Mol & Sorum to appear in one of the opening games in the men’s competition on Friday morning
Published 12:13, 13 Nov 2025
Norway’s Anders Mol & Christian Sorum
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The largest beach volleyball competition ever to be held on Asian Volleyball Confederation territory and also the second ever World Championships to take place in the southern hemisphere will be played under the familiar format, with 48 teams per gender and with all five continental confederations represented. The 48 men’s teams representing 28 different national federations were drawn into 12 single round-robin pools of four. The pool winners, the pool runners-up and the best four of the third-placed teams in the pools will progress straight to the sixteenthfinals. The remaining eight third-placed teams in the pools will advance to the first knockout round, dubbed “the lucky loser round”. The four winning teams of that round will also qualify for to the sixteenthfinals. The knockout stage continues in a direct elimination format, further including the eighthfinals, the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the two medal matches. A total of 108 matches per gender will be contested during the Adelaide 2025 World Championships.
Three quarters of the men’s participants will hit the sand already on the first competition day as the first leg of matches in nine of the 12 pools are set to be played on Friday. Action starts at 09:00 local time (22:30 UTC on Thursday) with the first two games in Pool A. Top-seeded Mol & Sorum – Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions, Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medalists, Rome 2022 world champions and Hamburg 2019 world bronze medalists – will face their first challenge in Uruguay’s Hans Hannibal & Nicolas Llambias, seeded 48th in the 48-team draw, while Marco Krattiger & Leo Dillier take on Adrian Heidrich & Jonathan Jordan in an all-Swiss clash of the same pool right in the middle of the bracket.
Beachvolley Vikings’ fans will have to move swiftly from court 2 to court 3, where Hendrik Mol & Mathias Berntsen will meet Markus Mol & Adrian Mol in a family affair set to get Pool B action underway at 10:00 (23:30 on Thursday). The pool is headlined by the world’s number two team, Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands, who will start against Australia’s Luke Ryan & Zachery Schubert at 12:00 (01:30). It will be the first men’s game on center court.
The number three team in the World Ranking, Sweden’s Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson head Pool G. They will start their first World Championship campaign against another Australian pair, Ben Hood & Oliver Merritt, at 16:00 (05:30).
Yet another duo representing the host nation, Paul Burnett & Thomas Hodges, will present the first obstacle in front of reigning Olympic champions and Tlaxcala 2023 world silver medalists David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, currently number five in the World Ranking. That Pool C game will serve off at 21:00 (10:30) on center court.
Half an hour later, on court 3, the first whistle will blow for the other first-leg Pool C match-up, an interesting all-Brazilian clash between George Wanderley & Saymon Barbosa and Andre Stein & Renato Lima. Just until recently, George & Andre competed together, earning World Championship bronze at Rome 2022 and reigning as the world’s number one team for several months that year. Andre also triumphed as a world champion at Vienna 2017, while George’s new partner Renato took silver at Rome 2022.
Reigning 2023 world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia will start the defense of their title on Saturday with a Pool H game against Togo’s Koffi Kotoka & Kuamivi Samani at 12:00 (01:30).
Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalists Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar, headlining Pool J, will also enter the competition on Saturday, meeting Cuba’s Damian Gomez & Eblis Veranes at 18:00 (07:30). Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany will be among the last men’s team to get their World Championship campaign underway as they take on Canada’s Samuel Schachter & Jonathan Pickett in a Pool K fixture on Saturday at 20:30 (10:00). Wickler is also a silver medalist of the 2019 World Championship in Hamburg.
