The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twenty-first staging of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. The i ...

, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

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(AVC) with

Japan Volleyball Association The Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) is the governing body for volleyball in Japan. It was founded in 1927, and has been a member of FIVB since 1951. It is also a member of the Asian Volleyball Confederation. The JVA is responsible for organ ...

(JVA). The tournament was held in

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and

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, Japan from 12 to 19 September 2021. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Host selection

On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship: *

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all events will be selected by * team for the host country * teams based on the final standing of the previous edition * teams from each zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams

: Japan qualified as the hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to zonal entrants. :

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, the

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, and

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also submitted their entry for their participation in the tournament. However they could not be accommodated due to all 16 teams already confirmed at the time; This include the confirmation of the participation of 3 Western Asian teams and the conclusion of the Central Asia qualifier. Thailand was granted the sole Southeast Asian berth, the top ranked Southeast Asian team in the 2019 edition, which has earlier confirmed their participation. No qualification tournament was held. : Sri Lanka originally qualified but withdrew due to all of its players and staff testing positive for COVID-19. As a result, Uzbekistan replaced Sri Lanka in August 2021.

Zonal qualification

Only the Central Asian qualification tournament was held which was contested by Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in

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. *Time is

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( UTC+05:30).

Pools composition

Preliminary round

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

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according to their final standing of the 2019 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2019 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in

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on 16 July 2021. Final standings of the 2019 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 3rd. ;Pots * withdrew after the draw due to COVID-19 outbreak among the team, and was replaced by .

Classification round

Squads

Venues

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+09:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round

*All times are

( UTC+09:00). *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

Pool H

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+09:00).

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

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 spikers *: *: *Best middle blockers *: *: *Best opposite spiker *: *Best libero *:

References

External links

Official websiteRegulationsSquads
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Host selection

Qualification

Qualified teams

Zonal qualification

Pools composition

Preliminary round

Classification round

Squads

Venues

Pool standing procedure

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

See also

References

External links