The 2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the
Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship
The Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship, is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under 16 men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing b ...
, a biennial international
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
tournament organised by
Asian Volleyball Confederation
The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...
(AVC) with
Volleyball Federation of Uzbekistan (UZBV). The tournament was held in
Tashkent
Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...
, Uzbekistan from 22 to 29 July 2023.
This tournament served as a qualification tournament for the
FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the
2024 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship
The 2024 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship, the biennial international youth volleyball championship contested by the men's national teams under the age of 1 ...
as the AVC representatives.
Players must be born on or after January 1, 2008.
Pools composition
The overview of pools was released on 16 March 2023.
Format
All teams are divided into 4 pools. Robin round to classify ranking. Top 2 teams advance to top 8, split to Pool E (for teams from Pools A and C) and Pool F (for teams from Pools B and D). After that, teams will play cross matches to determine the best two teams from Pools E and F to qualify for the 1-4 semifinals, with teams finishing third and fourth places in each pool relegated to Classification Round for ranking 5-8.
The lower-ranked teams finishing third in Pools A, C and D and fourth in Pool C will next play a single round-robin competition. Teams which have already met in the pool round-robin preliminaries will not play again, but their results in the pool play will be taken into consideration for ranking 9-12.
Venue
Pool standing procedure
# Number of Victories
# Match points
# Set quotient
# Points quotient
# If the tie continues as per the point quotient between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points quotient 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
Uzbekistan time
Uzbekistan time is the standard time in Uzbekistan; it is 5 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+05:00. The standard time uses no daylight saving time, though there has been constant debate whether to adopt it in order to increase leisure time.
After the br ...
(
UTC+05:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Classification round
*All times are
Uzbekistan time
Uzbekistan time is the standard time in Uzbekistan; it is 5 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+05:00. The standard time uses no daylight saving time, though there has been constant debate whether to adopt it in order to increase leisure time.
After the br ...
(
UTC+05:00).
*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 classification round.
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Final round
*All times are
Uzbekistan time
Uzbekistan time is the standard time in Uzbekistan; it is 5 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+05:00. The standard time uses no daylight saving time, though there has been constant debate whether to adopt it in order to increase leisure time.
After the br ...
(
UTC+05:00).
5th–8th places
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most valuable player
*:
*Best setter
*:
*Best outside hitters
*:
*:
*Best middle blockers
*:
*:
*Best opposite spiker
*:
*Best libero
*:
See also
*
2023 Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship
The 2023 Asian Girls' U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Chinese Volleyball ...
*
2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
References
External links
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Team Roster
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Asian U16 Championship
Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship
2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship
The 2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation ...
Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship
2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship
The 2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation ...
Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship
July 2023 in Uzbekistan