The 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the 22nd 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

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 the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor, beach, and grass volleyball in Asia and Oceania. It has 65 member associations, mostly located in the Asia-Pacific ...

(AVC) with

Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (I.R.I.V.F.) is the governing body for Volleyball in Iran. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of FIVB. It was a part of Iranian Basketball Federation till 1957. It is also a member o ...

(IRIVF). The tournament was held in

Urmia Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an alt ...

, Iran from 19 to 26 August 2023. This was Iran's fifth time served as the host nation.

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

won their tenth title by defeating in straight sets the host and two-time defending champions

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

in the final. Iran took their third silver medal of the tournament.

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

won their first medal of the tournament, claiming the bronze after defeating

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

(3–0) in the third place match.

Yūki Ishikawa is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. Ishikawa is the first volleyball player to have a wax figure in Japan. Currently, his wax figure is displayed at Madame Tussauds Tokyo. Ishikawa was n ...

named as the

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of the tournament. Japan, Iran, and Qatar, the top three teams of the tournament qualifed for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by: * 1 team for the host country * 10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition * 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams

The AVC stated that there were originally eighteen entrant teams that were due to participate in the tournament. However, on 17 August 2023, Mongolia announced that they withdrew from the tournament. Note:

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 2021 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2021 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in

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on 16 March 2023. Final standings of the 2021 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st.

Squads

Venues

Pool standing procedure

# Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) # In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: #* Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser #* Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser #* Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser # If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: #* Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. #* Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. #* If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

* All times are

Iran Standard Time Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran. Iran uses a UTC offset UTC+03:30. IRST is defined by the 52.5 degrees east meridian, the same meridian which defines the Iranian calendar and is the official meridian of I ...

( UTC+03:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Final round

13th–17th places

13th–16th places

15th place match

13th place match

Final twelve

Round of 12

7th–12th places

Quarterfinals

7th–10th places

Semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Volleyball, Asian Volleyball Championship, Men, 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship 2023 in Iranian sport Asian Men's Championship Asian Men's Championship Asian Volleyball Championship International volleyball competitions hosted by Iran

Qualification

Qualified teams

Pools composition

Squads

Venues

Pool standing procedure

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Final round

13th–17th places

13th–17th places

13th–16th places

15th place match

13th place match

Final twelve

Round of 12

7th–12th places

Quarterfinals

7th–10th places

Semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

See also

References

External links