FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship
| Most recent season or competition: 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship | |
| Sport | Volleyball |
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| Founded | 1952 |
| First season | 1952 |
| CEO | Ary Graça |
| No. of teams | 32 (Finals) |
| Continent | World (FIVB) |
| Most recent champions | Italy (2nd title) |
| Most titles | Soviet Union (5 titles) |
| Streaming partner | Volleyball TV (since 2018) |
| Official website | volleyballworld.com/women |
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The FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1970 they have been awarded every four years. Starting in 2025, the tournament is held biennially.
The current champions are Italy, which won their second title at the 2025 tournament in Thailand.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Championship Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 20 World Championship tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Soviet Union have won five times. The other World Championship winners are Japan and Cuba, with three titles each; China, Italy, Russia and Serbia, with two titles each; and the United States, with one title.