The top beach volleyball players in the planet are reunited in Adelaide, Australia, the host city of the 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship, the most important and anticipated event in the sport’s calendar this year.

Exciting and dramatic battles will take place Down Under from November 14-23 as new world champions are crowned, and fans of the sport following the action on VBTV will be able to watch every single match live or on-demand from anywhere on the planet.

• Watch the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships on VBTV

Downloading the VBTV app is the absolute best way to follow the World Championship, as besides being able to watch every match live or on-demand at your convenience, you will be able to access all the information you need, such as the match schedule, the rankings and the stats, in one place.

Select matches will be available for free on Beach Volleyball World’s YouTube channel for users in the United States, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Taiwan and Thailand. Other markets will be able to follow some matches on local streaming platforms, with VBTV standing out as the only to show every match regardless of the user’s location. (Match availability may vary by country, please visit VBTV for full access worldwide).

2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship Match Schedule

Reuniting the 48 best teams in the world in each gender, which will represent as many as 40 countries from all five continents, the 15^th edition of the World Championship is positioned to be arguably the most competitive ever, featuring a handful of favorites to win gold among the men and the women in a lineup that includes multiple Olympic champions and medalists and past world champions.

Currently standing at the top of the FIVB World Rankings, Norwegians Anders Mol and Christian Sørum are among the most spectacular teams on the men’s side. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions have already been there, having taken their country to the top of the podium at the World Championship for the first time in 2022, and will return determined to win their third medal after getting bronze in 2019.

The reigning Olympic champions, Swedish superstars David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig will try to add a World Championship title to their already incredible resumé in Adelaide. Aged 23 and 24 respectively, the jump-setters had a single opportunity to win the event, in 2023, and advanced all the way to the final, having to settle for bronze.

The most successful team on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in 2025, with four gold medals won in six events played, Qataris Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan will be tough to beat in Australia. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalists have plenty of experience and unparalleled athleticism to endure the challenge of consecutive elimination matches and will make a push for another major result in their careers.

Other men’s teams expected to contend for medals in Adelaide are reigning world champions Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner of Czechia, Brazilian Olympians Evandro Gonçalves and Arthur Lanci and Dutch Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot, who made it to the podium in all but one of the seven Beach Pro Tour events they played in 2025.

On the women’s side, beach volleyball powerhouse Brazil have not one, but two teams well-positioned to fight for the title in reigning Olympic champions Eduarda ‘Duda’ Lisboa and Ana Patrícia Ramos, who were in the last two finals, winning gold in 2022 and silver in 2023, and FIVB World Ranking leaders Victoria Lopes an Thamela Coradello, who four golds and eight medals in international events since they became partners in 2024.

With defending champions Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes now playing with different partners (Cheng will be in Adelaide with Molly Shaw while Hughes didn’t qualify), the United States will rely on Olympians Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher to keep the title in the country. They made it to the podium in their first World Championship appearance in 2023 and already won three Beach Pro Tour golds this season.

Paris Olympic silver medalists Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson of Canada should also be among the contenders this week in Australia. Both of them have played in World Championship finals before, with Melissa winning gold in 2019 and Brandie taking silver in 2022, and they have continued to grow as a team over the last few years.

Among the European teams, Germans Cinja Tilmman and Svenja Müller, Italians Valentina Gottardi and Reka Orsi Toth, Latvians Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova and Dutch Raisa Schoon and Katja Stam seem the most prepared to try and take the continent back to the top of the podium for the first time since 2017.