2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League


The 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League was the first edition of the newly-rebranded AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League and the 25th overall edition of the formerly named Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, an annual international women's volleyball club tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation with the Philippine National Volleyball Federation and the Premier Volleyball League. It was held at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig, Philippines from 20 to 27 April 2025.
Zhetysu VC won the tournament for the first time by beating VTV Bình Điền Long An in the final and Karina Denisova named the MVP. Both teams qualified for the 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship. Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC claimed the bronze against BAIC Motor Volleyball Club in the 3rd place match.

Host selection

In January 2025, South Korea and Vietnam were originally considered as possible options to be the hosts. The next month, the PNVF announced that the Philippines would be the official host nation of the tournament.

Participating teams

Entrant teams

The AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League is an invitational tournament with a maximum of twelve teams allowed to enter. As the hosts, the Philippines were initially allowed to enter two teams. The hosts were later granted a wild card slot to field a third team, in replacement of Japan's withdrawal from the tournament. The following teams took part in the tournament.
AssociationTeamDomestic league standing
Queensland Pirates2024–25 Australian Women's Volleyball League champions
BAIC Motor Volleyball Club2024–25 Chinese Volleyball Super League 5th place
2024–25 Taiwan Enterprise Volleyball League runners-up
Hip Hing Women's Volleyball Team2024 Hong Kong Women's Volleyball League champions
Saipa Tehran2024–25 Iranian Women's Volleyball League champions
Al Naser Club2023–24 Jordan Volleyball Premier League champions
Zhetysu VC2024–25 Kazakhstan Women's National League champions
Petro Gazz Angels2024–25 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference champions
Creamline Cool Smashers2024–25 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference runners-up
PLDT High Speed Hitters2024–25 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference 5th place
Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC2023–24 Women's Volleyball Thailand League champions
VTV Bình Điền Long An2024 Volleyball Vietnam League champions

Squads

With the rebranded tournament, each team can now have a maximum of three foreign players in its roster that can play at any time. Previously, teams can only have two foreign players and only one of which can play at a time.

Pools composition

For the first time since the 2016 edition, the teams were split into four pools with three teams each. The draw of lots took place at The Grand Fourwings Hotel Bangkok on 12 March 2025.
Teams were seeded in the first position of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB Senior World Rankings as of 8 January 2025. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. The host's two teams and the top two countries are automatically seeded as the first teams of the four pools. As the Philippines have fielded a third team as a wild card, it will be in the pot in accordance with the country's current FIVB ranking.
Seeded teamsPot 1Pot 2
Creamline Cool Smashers
Petro Gazz Angels
Beijing BAIC Motor
Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC 		Zhetysu
VTV Bình Điền Long An

PLDT High Speed Hitters 		Queensland Pirates
Iranian Team
Hip Hing
Al Naser

;Drawing results
Pool APool BPool CPool D
Creamline Cool Smashers Petro Gazz Angels BAIC Motor Volleyball Club Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC
Zhetysu VC VTV Bình Điền Long An PLDT High Speed Hitters
Al Naser Club Hip Hing Women's Volleyball Team Iranian Team Queensland Pirates

Venue

The tournament will take place in Pasig in Metro Manila.
All matches
Pasig, Philippines
PhilSports Arena
Capacity: 10,000

Pool standing procedure

  1. Total number of victories
  2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
  3. * Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
  4. * Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
  5. * Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
  6. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
  7. * Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
  8. * Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
  9. * If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

Pool A



Pool B



Pool C



Pool D



Final round

Quarterfinals



Semifinals



3rd place match



Final



Final standing

RankTeam
Zhetysu VC
VTV Bình Điền Long An
Nakhon Ratchasima Qmin C VC
4 BAIC Motor Volleyball Club
5
5 PLDT High Speed Hitters
5 Petro Gazz Angels
5
Creamline Cool Smashers
9 Al Naser Club
9 Hip Hing Women's Volleyball Team
9 Queensland Pirates
9 Saipa Tehran

Awards

  • Most Valuable Player
  • Best Setter
  • Best Outside Spikers
  • Best Middle Blockers
  • Best Opposite Spiker
  • '''Best Libero'''