The 2025 LOVB Pro season was the inaugural season of the women's volleyball league LOVB Pro.[1] Six teams competed over 14 weeks, including 12 weeks of regular season play, one mid-season tournament (LOVB Classic), and a one-weekend LOVB Finals.[2][3]
One weekday head-to-head match between two teams at one LOVB city.
One weekend three-match series between four teams at one LOVB city (billed by the league as "Weekends with LOVB"), with a single match on Friday and a double-header on Saturday.
Each LOVB city hosted a total of 8 regular season matches.
All 6 LOVB Pro teams qualified for the season-ending LOVB finals, with the top-2 ranked teams in the final regular season standings earning byes into the semifinals, while the remaining 4 teams played in the quarterfinals.[13]
The ranking of teams in the LOVB regular season standings were determined as follows:[16]
Each team will be ranked by their match win percentage (matches won divided by total matches played).
If two teams are tied, the following tie-breakers will be applied in this order:
Head-to-Head (H2H) win ratio
H2H set ratio (sets won divided by sets played)
H2H point ratio (points won divided by total points)
Total set ratio against all opponents
Total point ratio against all opponents
If more than two teams are tied, the following tie-breakers will be applied:
Win ratio, only including games played between tied teams
Set ratio, only including games played between tied teams
Point ratio, only including games played between tied teams
If one team is eliminated from the multiple-team H2H tie, the tie-breaking process will revert to the top of the multiple-team H2H process, or to the top of the two-team H2H process if only two teams remain.
When reading across the table, a team would win the H2H tie-breaker based on values in boldface font, while they would lose the tie-breaker based on values in italicized font.
LOVB Classic
The inaugural mid-season LOVB Classic tournament was held at Kansas City, Missouri on Valentine's Day weekend, February 14-16, 2025.[17] It was announced that the top three teams would be awarded with a cash prize of $100,000, $40,000, and $20,000, respectively.[18]
Teams were seeded for the LOVB Classic based on league standings after Week 5.
Saturday's semifinals featured another upset win, with #3 Houston defeating #2 Omaha in the first match. In the second semifinal, #1 seed Atlanta defeated #5 Austin and advanced to the final.
Sunday started with the 5th place match where #4 Salt Lake won against #6 Madison. In the 3rd place match, #5 Austin prevailed over #2 Omaha to win a $20,000 prize. The final match was another upset, with #3 Houston defeating #1 seed Atlanta. Atlanta took second place, and won $40,000. Houston won the inaugural LOVB Classic title along with the $100,000 prize.[19][20]
The 2025 LOVB finals were held at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky on April 10-13, 2025.[21]LOVB Austin won the championship match in a 3-set sweep of LOVB Omaha, with Logan Eggleston and Madisen Skinner leading the scoring for Austin with 22 and 21 points, respectively. Austin also had a 16–3 advantage in blocks.[22] Both Austin and Omaha (respectively the 5th and 6th seeds in the Finals) reached the championship after "reverse sweep" semifinal wins, with Austin coming back from a 2-set deficit to beat top-seed LOVB Atlanta and Omaha doing the same against #2 seed LOVB Houston. Austin's reverse sweep in the semis was its second of the Finals tournament, as they also came back from 0–2 down to top #4 seed LOVB Salt Lake in the quarterfinals; Omaha defeated #3 seed LOVB Madison in 4 sets in the quarters.
Save for one week during the regular season, two players (one offensive, one defensive) were awarded with LOVB Players of the Week. The exception was for the LOVB Classic in Week 6, where in addition to an All-Tournament team (see above), one player was awarded the tournament's Most Valuable Player.[24]
All-star teams, dubbed "LOVB Icons", were determined by a weighted voting system selected by fans (50%), players (25%), and coaches (25%), and were announced on April 7, 2025.[26]