2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

The 2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the twentieth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Korea Volleyball Association (KVA). The tournament was held in Seoul, South Korea, from 18 to 25 August 2019. South Korea played host to this event for the very first time. The top eight teams of this tournament qualified for the 2020 AVC Women's Volleyball Olympic Qualification Tournament.

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events were selected by:
* 1 team for the organizer
* 10 teams based on the rankings of the previous championship
* 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams

: South Korea qualified as the hosts and was originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the 11th-ranked team, Hong Kong.
: Philippines originally qualified, but declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked nation, New Zealand.
: SEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to Indonesia and Singapore.
: CEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to India and Sri Lanka.

Venues

Pools composition

Preliminary round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their previous edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the previous ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same zonal association. The draw was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019.

Ranking from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked third) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–).

;Draw

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 Korea Standard Time ( UTC+09:00).''

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

9th–12th Classification round

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

5th–8th Classification round

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standings

Setter: Nanami Seki, Tamaki Matsui

Middle blocker: Mai Irisawa, Nichika Yamada, Shion Hirayama, Kotomi Osaka

Outside hitters: Miwako Osanai, Yuri Yoshino, Mayu Ishikawa, Yuki Nishikawa

Opposite: Miyu Nakagawa, Haruna Soga

Libero: Rena Mizusugi, Minami Nishimura

Awards

*Most valuable player
: Mayu Ishikawa
*Best setter
: Nootsara Tomkom
*Best outside spikers
: Mayu Ishikawa
: Kim Yeon-koung

*Best middle blockers
: Nichika Yamada
: Yang Hanyu
*Best opposite spiker
: Haruna Soga
*Best libero
: Piyanut Pannoy

Qualifying teams for 2020 Asian Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament

See also

*2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
*2019 Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship
* 2019 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship

References

External links

Asian Volleyball Confederation
– official website

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