The 2016

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 ...

, so-called 2016 AVC Cup for Men was the 5th edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, played by top eight teams of the 2015 Asian Championship. It was held in

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from 22 to 28 September 2016.

Pools composition

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

according to their final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship. All teams not seeded were drawn. Final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 8th. * replaced Qatar, who withdrew from the tournament.

Squads

Venue

* Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium,

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+07:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+07:00).

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : Alireza Behboudi *Best Setter : Shohei Yamaguchi *Best Outside Spikers : Liu Libin :

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*Best Middle Blockers : Miao Ruantong : Masoud Gholami *Best Opposite Spiker :

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*Best Libero : Tung Li-yi

References

External links

Official websiteSquads
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