The

AVC AVC may refer to: Organizations * Asian Volleyball Confederation, the continental governing body for the sport of volleyball in Asia * Advanced Video Communications, owner of Stickam * ¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!, a defunct left-wing group in Ecuador ...

qualification for the 2006 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship saw member nations compete for four places at the finals in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Draw

11 AVC national teams entered qualification. (Afghanistan later withdrew) The teams were distributed according to their position in the FIVB Senior Women's Rankings as of 15 January 2004 using the

serpentine system The serpentine system (also called snake seeding) is a method employed in the organization of a competition to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m ...

for their distribution. (Rankings shown in brackets) ;First round

First round

Pool A

*Venue:

Beilun Sports and Art Center (; Wu: ''Poh-len Chiu'') is a district of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, China. It is dominated by Beilun port, an international port of the easternmost edge of the southern coast of Hangzhou Bay. It primarily services the regional city of Nin ...

, Ningbo,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

*Dates: August 3–7, 2005 *All times are China Standard Time ( UTC+08:00)

Pool B

*Venue:

Ratchaburi Gymnasium Ratchaburi ( th, ราชบุรี, ) or Rajburi, Rat Buri) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in western Thailand, capital of Ratchaburi Province. Ratchaburi town covers the entire '' tambon'' Na Mueang (หน้าเมือง) of Muea ...

, Ratchaburi, Thailand *Dates: August 1–5, 2005 *All times are Indochina Time ( UTC+07:00)

References

External links

2006 World Championship Qualification
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