The 2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Men was the sixth edition of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Cup The Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, also known as the AVC Cup for Men, is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the top senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's ...

, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

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(AVC) with

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(CTVA). The tournament was held at

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, Taiwan (referred to as

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by the AVC) from 8 to 15 August 2018. As hosts,

automatically participated for the tournament, while the remaining 8 teams, qualified from the

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Qualification

The 10 AVC member associations qualified for the 2018 Asian Cup. Chinese Taipei qualified as hosts and the 9 remaining teams qualified from the 2017 Asian Championship. But, China later withdrew. The 9 AVC member associations were from five zonal associations, including, Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (3 teams), Oceania (1 team), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (1 team).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

This was the first Asian Cup which used the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format saw teams were drawn into three pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the hosts was assigned into a pool according to their final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same pool A, the next best three contested pool B, the next best three contested pool C. Final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship are shown in brackets.

Venue

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Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other. 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+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+08:00).

Playoff

5th–9th quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : Mohamed Ibrahim *Best Setter : Javad Karimi *Best Outside Spikers :

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*Best Middle Blockers : Mohamed Ibrahim :

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*Best Opposite Spiker : Mubarak Hammad *Best Libero :

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References

External links

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