The AVC

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for the

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship The 2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was held in Japan from 17 November to 3 December 2006. Like the previous edition, 24 teams participated in the tournament. Brazil won the Tournament (retaining their championship title), defeatin ...

saw member nations compete for five places at the finals in

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

Draw

21 AVC national teams entered qualification. (Saudi Arabia later withdrew) The teams were distributed according to their position in the FIVB Senior Men's Rankings as of 15 January 2004 using the serpentine system for their distribution. (Rankings shown in brackets) Teams ranked 1–6 did not compete in the first round, and automatically qualified for the second round. ;First round ;Second round ;Playoff round

First round

Pool A

*Venue: Maktoum Bin Mohamed Stadium,

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*Dates: May 28–June 2, 2005 *All times are

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( UTC+04:00)

Pool B

*Venue: Ratchaburi Gymnasium,

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Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

*Dates: May 20–22, 2005 *All times are

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( UTC+07:00)

Pool C

*Venue: University of San Carlos Gymnasium,

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*Dates: March 2–6, 2005 *All times are

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( UTC+08:00)

Second round

Pool D

*Venue: Baluan Sholak Palace of Culture and Sports,

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

*Dates: June 17–19, 2005 *All times are Almaty Time ( UTC+06:00)

Pool E

*Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium,

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

*Dates: June 24–26, 2005 *All times are

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( UTC+05:30)

Pool F

*Venue: Azadi Volleyball Hall,

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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

*Dates: June 22–24, 2005 *All times are

Iran Daylight 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 ...

( UTC+04:30)

Playoff round

*Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium,

*Dates: July 1–3, 2005 *All times are

( UTC+05:30)

References

External links

2006 World Championship Qualification
{{2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification 2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship 2005 in volleyball