Italy and Spain to host next year’s U18 and U20 Beach Volleyball European Championships

The stars in the making of European Beach Volleyball can start looking forward to playing for continental honours in Italy and Spain where the 2025 U18 and U20 European champions will be crowned in the late summer of next year. The venue and dates for #EuroBeachVolleyU22 will be announced at a later stage. 

#EuroBeachVolleyU20 will be taking place in Madrid, Spain, at the very same permanent facility – Parque Deportivo Puerta de Hierro – which played host to the U18 event in 2023. This venue is well-known to members of the Beach Volleyball community since it has delivered the season-opening event on European soil for the past few years – a Beach Pro Tour Future with single-gender tournaments usually organised on consecutive weeks – as well as preliminary stages of the CEV Beach Volley Nations Cup. The 2025 edition of the U20 European Championship will run from August 21-24, with the Spanish teams – which have been performing extremely well in age-group competitions for a few years – obviously looking forward to capitalising on the home-court advantage. The event returns to Spain for the first time since the 1999 edition held in Finestrat (at the time, the U19 age limit was in place). 

The youngest players – those from the U18 age group – will battle for medals and glory from September 11-14 in Corigliano Rossano, southern Italy. This is yet another familiar place for many Beach Volleyball enthusiasts since the seaside resort in the Calabria region has delivered double-gender Beach Pro Tour Future events with much success for the last couple of years. #EuroBeachVolleyU18 will also count as a European qualifier for the 2026 edition of the FIVB U19 Beach Volleyball World Championships. It is the first time in history this age-group competition takes place in Italy since the event was established back in 2002. 

As many as 32 teams per gender will contest each continental championship – with both events preceded earlier in the season by zonal qualifiers introduced for the first time in 2025. 

Therefore, the anticipation is already mounting as tomorrow’s Beach Volleyball stars will be enjoying incredibly valuable opportunities to establish themselves and to follow in the footsteps of current major superstars of the sport such as reigning Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, who dominated age-group competitions for a few seasons in a row since their breakthrough U18 title in 2018.