Women's World Championship 2025

Five World Championship teams to join hosts at Korea Invitational

Argentina, Czechia, France, Japan and Sweden set to compete in Jinju this week

Published 04:30, 11 Aug 2025

Sweden is one of the teams set to compete at the Korea Invitational (source: cev.eu)

The 2025 Korea Invitational women's volleyball tournament, set to take place this week, just days before the start of the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship, will feature six national teams competing in a single round-robin format. Five teams that are going to participating in the World Championship as of next week, will join hosts Korea for the friendly event, to be held in the city of Jinju from August 12 to 17.

Argentina, Czechia, France, Japan and Sweden are expected to test out their squads as an important part of their final preparations ahead of the year’s premier competition set to serve off on August 22 in Thailand.

The six teams participating in the Korea Invitational will meet each other once for a total of 15 matches on the tournament’s program:

Aug 12, 13:00 local (04:00 UTC): Japan v France
Aug 12, 16:00 local (07:00 UTC): Korea v Argentina
Aug 12, 19:00 local (10:00 UTC): Czechia v Sweden
Aug 13, 13:00 local (04:00 UTC): Sweden v Argentina
Aug 13, 16:00 local (07:00 UTC): Korea v France
Aug 13, 19:00 local (10:00 UTC): Japan v Czechia
Aug 15, 11:00 local (02:00 UTC): Czechia v France
Aug 15, 14:00 local (05:00 UTC): Korea v Sweden
Aug 15, 17:00 local (08:00 UTC): Japan v Argentina
Aug 16, 11:00 local (04:00 UTC): France v Sweden
Aug 16, 14:00 local (07:00 UTC): Korea v Japan
Aug 16, 17:00 local (10:00 UTC): Czechia v Argentina
Aug 17, 12:00 local (03:00 UTC): Korea v Czechia
Aug 17, 15:00 local (06:00 UTC): Argentina v France
Aug 17, 18:00 local (09:00 UTC): Japan v Sweden