Determining 8 teams in the quarter-finals of the 2025 World Volleyball Championship

The 1/8 round of the World Men's Volleyball Championship has ended with exciting and dramatic matches.

Accordingly, the Turkish team won 3-1 against the Netherlands, respectively with the score of 27-29, 25-23, 25-16, 25-19. In addition, Poland also defeated Canada with the same score of 3-1 (25-18, 23-25, 25-20, 25-14).

Meanwhile, there was no such surprise when defending champion Italy beat Argentina 3-0. However, the sets ended with close scores of 25-23, 25-20, 25-22. Belgium also easily beat Finland 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-21).

In the next two matches, Bulgaria won 3-0 against Portugal (25-19, 25-23, 25-13), while the US team beat Slovenia 3-1 (19-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-20).

In the end, the Czech Republic defeated Cambodia 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-23), while Iran also tried to beat Serbia after 5 sets (23-25, 25-19, 24-26, 25-22, 15-9). Accordingly, Iran is also the only Asian representative to reach the world quarter-finals.