The men's doubles competition of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 17 to 25 May 2025. The event was played as a straight knockout. All doubles' matches were best of 5 games.
The fifth seeds, Esteban Dorr and Florian Bourrassaud advanced to the semifinals. However, Dorr suffered a knee injury while celebrating, which forced the pair to withdraw from the semifinals. The other French duo, top-seeded Alexis Lebrun and Félix Lebrun, lost to Chinese Taipei's Lin Yun-ju and Kao Cheng-jui in the semifinals. Both French pairs earned bronze medals, making France's first podium appearance in individual events at the World Championships since 1997.
The second-seeded Japanese duo Hiroto Shinozuka and Shunsuke Togami advanced to the final via walkover and defeated Lin Yun-ju and Kao Cheng-jui in the deciding game, claiming Japan's first men's doubles title at the World Championships since 1961.
Seeds.
Doubles events had 16 seeded pairs. Seeding in doubles events was done by combining each player's ITTF Table Tennis Doubles/Mixed Doubles Individual World Ranking position to form a combined pair rank (CPR). The seeding was based on 29 April, 2025 CPR in ascending order.
Draw.
The draw took place on 30 April 2025. Players of the same association were separated only in the first round. Since there were 62 pairs in men's doubles, the top two seeded pairs got a bye in the first round.