2025 is considered a pivotal period for Vietnamese women's volleyball, when the national team goes through consecutive tournaments. Instead of just focusing on individual achievements, the results in the year clearly show the trend of raising the long-term position on the world volleyball map.
Starting 2025 is the AVC Nations Cup held in June. At this tournament, the Vietnamese women's volleyball team continues to affirm its advantage in the region when winning the championship for the 3rd consecutive time. More importantly, this title brings a large number of points on the FIVB rankings, creating a premise for the team to significantly improve their global rankings.
After that, SEA V.League 2025 became a symbolic milestone. In the second leg, Vietnam defeated Thailand for the first time in the official tournament framework.
In the decisive match, coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet's students were led by two sets but still persistently pursued the set tactics, thereby reversing the situation to win 3-2. This result helped the Vietnamese team rise to 22nd in the world, the highest ranking that the country's women's volleyball has ever achieved.
By August, the Vietnamese women's team appeared for the first time at the World Championships. The right to participate came from 4th place in Asia in 2023, in the context that the World Championship spot was adjusted due to Thailand being the host.
Although they did not win any matches and only had one set won against Poland, playing against top teams like Germany or Kenya helps players accumulate experience when reaching the highest level of play.
The year-end period is SEA Games 33. In the final match against Thailand, Thanh Thuy and her teammates continued to show their competitiveness when pulling the opponent into the 5th set despite losing 2-3 overall. SEA Games did not bring a FIVB score, but this performance showed that the professional gap between the two teams has narrowed significantly.
At the end of 2025, Vietnamese women's volleyball ranked 28th in the world with 136.75 points, behind Japan, China and Thailand in the Asian region.
In the context that the rankings determine the opportunity to participate in major tournaments, the next goal of the Vietnamese women's team is to approach the top 18 in the world to win a place to participate in the Volleyball Nations League. This is not only a ranking measure, but also a door for the team to maintain a regular pace of competition with top volleyball backgrounds.
