The 2015

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was held in

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from 12 to 20 May 2015. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and served as the Asian qualifier for the 2015 Men's U23 World Championship to be held in

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which the top two teams qualified for the world championship.

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won the tournament and Purya Fayazi was the most valuable player.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the

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according to their final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship. All teams not seeded were drawn. But, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Turkmenistan later withdrew. Final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship are shown in brackets except the hosts who did not participate in the 2014 Asian U20 Championship.

Venues

* Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall B,

– Pool A, B and Final eight * Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall C,

– Pool C, D and 9th–16th places

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # Result of the last match between the tied teams Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+06:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+06:30). *The first and third placed teams of each Preliminary round pools were seeded in Quarterfinals and 9th–16th Quarterfinals respectively. The second and fourth placed teams of each Preliminary round pools were drawn to match the first and third placed teams respectively. The teams in same pool in preliminary round didn't play each other in Quarterfinals and 9th–16th Quarterfinals.

9th–16th places

9th–16th quarterfinals

13th–16th semifinals

9th–12th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *: Purya Fayazi *Best setter *: Mostafa Bagheri *Best outside spikers *: Purya Fayazi *:

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*Best middle blockers *: Kim In-hyeok *: Javad Hosseinabadi *Best opposite spiker *: Jung Ji-seok *Best libero *: Lee Ji-hun

References

External links

Official websiteRegulationsSquads
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