Welcome to the Road to Adelaide, our series breaking down the race to qualifying for the 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships, which will be held in Adelaide, Australia, November 14-23. Of the 48 teams who qualify for the World Championships, 25 are earned via points, the standings of which are determined by your best six finishes in the 2025 year up through October 5, which follows a Beach Pro Tour Challenge event in Mexico. There is a country quota of four teams per federation who can qualify.
It began in Mexico. It ended in Mexico.
After seven months of qualifying events for the beach volleyball world championships, the race is alas finished. The top-25 points have been determined, the continental spots trickled out, the wild cards gifted. Below are the 48 teams per gender who will be competing in Adelaide this November for a shot at the title of World Champion.
Of particular note: Norway, recipients of the wild card given to Adrian Mol and Markus Mol, will have four Mol brothers and a Mol cousin, Mathias Bertnsen, in the World Championships, living up to the name I bestowed upon them in China earlier this year: It’s the Beach Mol Tour.
Javier Bello and Joaquin Bello, after a down year in which they didn’t make a single quarterfinal, were given a wild card.
If Chaim Schalk and James Shaw do not find a way to sneak in, this will be the fewest men’s USA Volleyball teams (2) to compete in a World Championship in history. It’s still a coin flip whether or not they do, as teams often run into visa problems, late injuries, etc.
Final Men’s Beach Volleyball World Championships Standings
- Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, Norway: 6500 (6)
- Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, Netherlands: 6200 (6)
- David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, Sweden: 5480 (6)
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Lanci, Brazil: 5220 (6)
- Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, Poland: 5020 (6)
- Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, Cuba: 5020 (6)
- Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic: 4960 (6)
- Jacob Holting-Nilsson, Elmer Andersson, Sweden: 4960 (6)
- Steven van De Velde, Alex Brouwer, Netherlands: 4800 (6)
- Cherif Younousse, Ahmed Tijan, Qatar: 4740 (6)
- Tomas Capogrosso, Nico Capogrosso, Argentina: 4600 (6)
- Martins Plavins, Kristians Fokerots, Latvia: 4240 (6)
- Clemens Wickler, Nils Ehlers, Germany: 3940 (6)
- Timo Hammarberg, Tim Berger, Austria: 3920 (6)
- Teo Rotar, Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, France: 3880 (6)
- Miles Evans, Chase Budinger, USA: 3860 (6)
- Remi Bassereau, Calvin Aye, France: 3800 (6)
- Mark Nicolaidis, Izac Carracher, Australia: 3700 (6)
- George Wanderley, Saymon Barbosa, Brazil: 3340 (6)
- Paul Henning, Lui Wust, Germany: 3620 (6)
- Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, Norway: 3500 (6)
- Lukas Pfretzschner, Sven Winter, Germany: 3480 (6)
- Joao Pedrosa, Hugo Campos, Portugal: 3460 (6)
- Marco Krattiger, Leo Dillier, Switzerland: 3460 (6)
- Yves Haussener, Julian Freidli, Switzerland — European Continental
- Chris Dresser, Philipp Waller, Austria — European CS
- Ruben Penninga, Matthew Immers, Netherlands — European CS
- Adrian Heidrich, Jonathan Jordan, Switzerland — European CS
- Marco Grimalt, Esteban Grimalt, Chile — South America CS
- Javier Bello, Joaquin Bello, England — Wild Card
- Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA — NORCECA CS
- Andre Loyola, Renato Lima, Brazil — South America CS
- Sam Schachter, Jonathan Pickett, Canada — NORCECA CS
- Markus Mol, Adrian Mol, Norway — Wild Card
- Bautista Amieva, Maciel Bueno, Argentina — South America CS
- Brad Fuller, Ben O’Dea, New Zealand — Asia CS
- Hans Hannibal, Nicolas Llambias, Uruguay — South America CS
- Jack Pearse, D’Artagnan Potts, Australia — Asia CS
- Ben Hod, Oliver Merritt, Australia — HT
- Paul Burnett, Thomas Hodges, Australia — Asia CS
- Ruben Mora, Dany Lopez, Nicaragua — NORCECA CS
- Luke Ryan, ZAch Schubert, Australia — Wild Card
- Anass Saber, Soufiane El Gharouti, Marocco — Africa CS
- Jose Mondlane, Osvaldo Mungoi, Mozambique — Africa CS
- Yanwei Wang, Hongjun Du, China — Asia CS
- Daouda Yacoubou, Mensan Tohouegnon, Benin — Africa CS
- Damian Gomez, Eblis Veranes, Cuba — NORCECA CS
- Koffi Kotoka, Kuamivi Samani, Togo — Africa CS

Kelly Cheng hits past Thamela in Joao Pessoa/Volleyball World photo
Final Women’s Beach Volleyball World Championships Standings
Notable additions and late qualifiers for the women include a properly distributed wild card to the Netherlands’ Raisa Schoon and Katja Stam, who won gold out of the qualifier in Veracruz. They will be a certifiable land mine. It’s also fitting that Mila Konink, Stam’s injury fill-in this season who blocked and played well with Schoon, qualified, sneaking in with Desy Poisez.
Aside from that, this World Championships is expected to be a Brazil-USA showdown, with the top-four teams all hailing from one of the two, and six of the top seven.
- Thamela Coradelli, Victoria Lopes, Brazil: 6120 (6)
- Carol Salgado, Rebecca Cavalcanti, Brazil: 5960 (6)
- Kristen Nuss, Taryn Brasher, USA: 5560 (6)
- Terese Cannon, Megan Kraft, USA: 5480 (6)
- Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, Latvia: 5380 (6)
- Ana Patricia, Duda, Brazil: 5360 (6)
- Kelly Cheng, Molly Shaw, USA: 5260 (6)
- Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillmann, Germany: 5080 (6)
- Reka Orsi Toth, Valentina Gottardi, Italy: 5020 (6)
- Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, Canada: 5000 (6)
- Anouk Verge-Depre, Zoe Verge-Depre, Switzerland: 4920 (6)
- Dorina Klinger, Ronja Klinger, Austria: 4380 (6)
- Clemence Vieira, Aline Chamereau, France: 4000 (6)
- Tanja Huberli, Leona Kernen, Switzerland: 3880 (6)
- Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, Spain: 3700 (6)
- Julia Donlin, Lexy Denaburg, USA: 3700 (6)
- Linda Bock, Louisa Lippmann, Germany: 3540 (6)
- Marketa Svozilova, Marie-Sara Stochlova, Czech Republic: 3460 (6)
- Sandra Ittlinger, Anna-Lena Grune, Germany: 3420 (6)
- Claudia Scampoli, Giada Bianchi, Italy: 3390 (6)
- Daria Romaniuk, Tetiana Lazarenko, Ukraine: 3640 (6)
- Emi van Driel, Wies Bekhuis, Netherlands: 3170 (6)
- Valentyna Davidova, Anhelina Khmil, Ukraine: 3060 (6)
- Taliqua Clancy, Jana Milutinovic, Australia — Wild Card
- Hegeile Almeida Dos Santos, Vitoria de Souza, Brazil — South America CS
- Giuliana Corrales, Michelle Valiente, Paraguay — South America CS
- Malgorzata Ciezkowska, Urszula Lunio, Poland — Europe CS
- Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, Lithuania — Europe CS
- Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, France — Europe CS
- Elizabeth Alchin, Georgia Johnson, Australia — Asia CS
- Mila Konink, Desy Poisez, Netherlands — Europe CS
- Katja Stam, Raisa Schoon, Netherlands — Wild Card
- Shaunna Polley, Liv MacDonald, New Zealand — Asia CS
- Melanie Paul, Lea Kunst, Germany — Wild Card
- Maria Gonzalez, Allanis Navas, Puerto Rico — NORCECA CS
- Asami Shiba, Reika Murakami, Japan — Asia CS
- Susana Torres, Atena Gutierrez, Mexico — NORCECA CS
- Jasmine Fleming, Stefanie Fejes, Australia — HT
- Lea Monkhouse, Marie-Alex Belanger, Canada — NORCECA CS
- Claudia Gaona, Lisbeth Allcca, Peru — South America CS
- Brenda Churin, Morena Abdala, Argentina — South America CS
- Jingzhe Wang, Xinyi Xia, China — Asia CS
- Mahassine Siad, Dina Mellal, Marocco — Africa CS
- Vanessa Muianga, Mercia Mucheza, Mozambique — Africa CS
- Pamela Bawa, Esther Mbah, Nigeria — Africa CS
- Tara Phillips, Kayla Mears, Australia — Wild Card
- Marwa Abdelhady, Nada Hamdy, Egypt — Africa CS
- Crismil Paniagua, Julibeth Payano, Dominican Republic — NORCECA CS