Nine Elite16 and six Challenge events currently on the calendar
- Nine Elite16 stops in the plans for Beach Pro Tour 2025
- Tour’s fourth season to offer six Challenge events
- A number of Futures tournaments have already been registered for 2025
After three successful seasons in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Beach Pro Tour is coming back in 2025 for its fourth season. The Elite16 and Challenge events on Beach Pro Tour have already been officially announced. Some of the stops in the Futures category are also known.
Elite16
As many as nine tournaments of the highest Beach Pro Tour category are in the plans for 2025, combining visits to completely new locations with returns to well established and even iconic beach volleyball venues.
For its first Elite16 stop in 2025, the Beach Pro Tour will return to Mexico, which will this time host the event in its easternmost state of Quintana Roo from 26 to 30 March.
The Brazilian capital Brasilia, which hosted its first Elite16 tournament in 2024, will welcome the Tour again in 2025 for another Elite16 event from 16 to 20 April.
Olympic-champions-to-be Duda & Ana Patricia triumph on home sand at Brasilia Elite16 2024
The next three stops of the highest category will be in Europe, all at iconic locations that will welcome their fourth Elite16 events. Just as in the previous three seasons, the Beach Pro Tour will visit Ostrava in Czechia (28 May – 1 June), Gstaad in Switzerland (2 – 6 July) and Hamburg (pictured in the main photo) in Germany (27 – 31 August).
The world’s best beach volleyball teams will then return to Brazil for two more stops at venues yet to be announced, from 17 to 21 September and from 24 to 28 September.
Cape Town in South Africa, which hosted an Elite16 event during the first Beach Pro Tour season in 2022, will welcome the Tour again in 2025 for its second Elite16 stop from 22 to 26 October.
The first ever final between Mol & Sorum and Ahman & Hellvig was the one at the 2022 Cape Town Elite16
Another iconic Beach Pro Tour venue that has hosted the Tour every season so far, the Qatari capital Doha, is set to organize the last Elite16 tournament in 2025, from 5 to 9 November.
Challenge
Six Challenge stops in 2025 have been announced at this point.
The first two will be in Mexico. The week before the first Elite16 in Quintana Roo, the neighbouring state of Yucatan will host the first Challenge, from 20 to 23 March. The week after Quintana Roo, from 3 to 6 April, another state in eastern Mexico, Veracruz, will welcome the second.
The remaining four Challenge tournaments will be at familiar locations.
In the spring, Saquarema in Brazil will host its third Challenge event from 10 to 13 April and Xiamen in China will organize its second Challenge stop from 15 to 18 May.
Cuba’s Jorge Alayo attempts a foot save during the 2024 Stare Jablonki Challenge final
The second Stare Jablonki Challenge in Poland will take place in the summer this time, from 21 to 24 August, while Nuvali in the Philippines will welcome its third Challenge (after also hosting a Futures last April) in the fall, from 16 to 19 October.
Futures
As usual, the Futures schedule is the most extensive and the most dynamic one and events of this category keep being added to the calendar.
A number of Futures tournaments have already been registered on the Beach Pro Tour 2025. The first one will open the season on 6 March in Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. The last one registered at this point is for the second half of August in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura.
The women’s final of the 2024 Sveti Vlas Futures in Bulgaria
In between, Futures stops will be held in Australia, Thailand, Spain, China, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Sweden, etc.
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