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The 2025 CEV Beach Volley Nations Cup Finals will be the highlight of the week in European beach volleyball, but teams from the continent that didn’t qualify for the event will also have an opportunity to compete over the next few days as the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour will host a Futures tournament in Leuven, Belgium.
Set to welcome international beach volleyball for a fifth-straight year, Leuven will have matches going on at the popular Monseigneur Ladeuzeplein square from Friday to Monday, the day of the country’s Belgian National Day.
Trying to create an extra reason for home fans to celebrate on the last day of the event, hosts Belgium will have four teams starting the men’s tournament directly in the main draw - Kyan Vercauteren/Joppe Van Langendonck, Louis Vandecaveye/Gilles Vandecaveye, Christophe Witvrouwen/Daan Hendrikx and Berre Peters/Wout Nuyttens.
Beach Pro Tour Leuven Futures – Men
Vercauteren/Van Langendonck, who topped the podium in Qidong, China, last month, and the Vandecaveye brothers, who finished first in Ios, Greece, also in June, have both triumphed in Futures events this season.
Two Olympians will be involved in this week’s event in Belgium – Latvian Edgar Tocs, who represented his country in Tokyo 2020 and is entered with Gustavs Auzins, and Polish Piotr Kantor, who played at both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games, and will have Artem Besarab by his side.
The men’s event will have representatives from 18 countries – Belgium (5), Germany (3), Poland (3), Czechia (2), Sweden (2), Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand and Switzerland.
On the women’s side, the host country will also have four teams guaranteed in the main draw in Youna Coens/Sarah Cools, Lisa Van Den Vonder/Louka Maertens, Jade Van Deun/Lotte De Clercq and Britt Ruysschaert/Isabel Van den Broeck.
Unlike the Belgian men, the country’s female duos are yet to win medals on the Beach Pro Tour in 2025 and will try to do it for the first time in front of their home fans this week.
Beach Pro Tour Leuven Futures – Women
The host country accounts for most of the 28 teams entered in the event, having five duos set to play this week, and is followed by the Netherlands (4), Finland (2), Peru (2), Poland (2), Argentina, Austria, Canada, Czechia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Morocco, Norway, Slovakia and the United States.
The first day of matches in Leuven will have the qualifiers for both genders. The main draw begins on Saturday, with pool play, and continues on Sunday, with the elimination rounds. The semifinals and medal matches are scheduled for Monday.
The Beach Pro Tour Futures events in Europe are run by the CEV in close cooperation with Volleyball World and provide teams from the continent with several opportunities to compete and gain valuable international ranking points.