The Chinese Volleyball Association has begun to focus on the men's and women's volleyball work in the next cycle. Judging from the various events released on the official website of the Volleyball Association, the men's and women's volleyball world leagues will return to the mainland, and the U21 men's volleyball team will become the host. In addition, in 2025, China's national volleyball teams at all levels will participate in at least 10 international competitions.
The women's volleyball team will be held from June 4 to 8, 2025, and the men's volleyball team will be held from June 11 to 15, 2025, which is also the return of the Volleyball World League to the mainland after 5 years. In the 20th World League, the Chinese Volleyball Association originally planned to hold 3 women's volleyball and 3 men's volleyball competitions, and host the finals.
However, it was cancelled due to the interruption of the World League. In the following four years, Chinese mainland never hosted the Volleyball World League again, until the men's volleyball challenger cup was held to break the "volleyball hosting drought". The 25-year World League has changed a lot compared to previous editions, that is, the number of participating teams and the number of host cities. In the first week of the World League hosted by Chinese mainland, only six teams will participate, while the rest will travel to other countries.
For the Chinese women's volleyball team, the main goal of the 25-year World League is to achieve good results. Under the condition of ensuring that the world ranking does not fall, we will actively train newcomers. However, the women's volleyball team's top priority now is to determine the coach candidate, whether to continue to hire local coaches, or find another way to choose foreign coaches, which will directly set the tone of the women's volleyball team Los Angeles Olympics.
Compared with the women's volleyball team striving for good results, the main goal of the men's volleyball team is to strive for relegation. The Chinese men's volleyball team returned to the World League by winning the World Challenger Cup, and also hired a well-known foreign coach Haining, and even put many main players in overseas leagues. All kinds of measures are to improve the competitiveness of the Chinese men's volleyball team. The advantage of holding the first week of the World League is that the men's volleyball team can win a few more games with home advantage and lay a good foundation for relegation.
In addition, since the U21 men's volleyball team did not enter the top five of the Asian Youth Championship, the Volleyball Association took the initiative to host the U21 Men's Volleyball Championship in order to allow them to participate in the World Youth Championships, and successfully qualified for the host country. This also provides another opportunity for the boys of the U21 men's volleyball team to show themselves, and hopes that the Chinese U21 men's volleyball team can be ashamed and brave and achieve good results in the World Youth Championships. Coaches and players also need to change their playing style to keep up with the times.
In 25 years, China's volleyball national teams at all levels will participate in at least 10 international competitions, in addition to the above-mentioned women's volleyball World League, men's volleyball World League and U21 World Championships, Chinese men's and women's volleyball teams have qualified to participate in the World Championships, U21 men's and women's volleyball and U19 men's and women's volleyball teams will also participate in their respective levels of the World Championships; The U16 men's and women's volleyball teams will compete in the Asian Championships.