The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the ninth staging of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. The i ...

, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

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(AVC) with

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(QVA). The tournament was held in

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, Qatar from 3 to 11 September 1997.

Pools composition

The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 1995 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Quarterfinals

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the Quarterfinals.''

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the previous rounds shall be taken into account for the final round.''

Classification 9th–12th

Classification 5th–8th

Championship

Final standing

References

Results
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