The 2016

Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship The AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League is an annual continental club volleyball competition organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), and contested by Asia and Oceania's top-division volleyball clubs. It is the most prestigious ...

was the 17th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in

Naypyidaw Naypyidaw (), officially Romanization of Burmese, romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), is the capital city, capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's ...

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

from 23 to 31 August 2016. The champions qualified for the 2017 Club World Championship as Asia's representative.

Pools composition

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

Serpentine system The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...

according to their final standing of the 2015 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn. But, Turkmenistan later withdrew. Final standing of the 2015 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who did not participate in the 2015 edition.

Venues

* Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall B,

– Preliminary round, Pool E, F and Final eight * Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall C,

– Preliminary round, Pool H, 9th–12th places and 13th–14th places

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+06:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round

*All times are

( UTC+06:30). *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 H

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+06:30).

13th–14th places

13th place match

9th–12th places

*After the

August 2016 Myanmar earthquake A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Myanmar west of Chauk on 24 August 2016 with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (''Strong''). It struck at 5:04 pm local time (10:34 UTC), and was centered in an isolated area. The estimated depth was 84.1 ...

, Al Jazira decided to give up the 9th–12th places.

9th–12th semifinals

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player *:

Shahram Mahmoudi Shahram Mahmoudi Khatounabadi (, born 20 July 1988 in Mianeh) is an Iranian volleyball player who plays for the Iran men's national volleyball team. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Mahmoudi debuted national games in 2013 Grand Cha ...

( Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) *Best Setter *:

Mehdi Mahdavi Mehdi Mahdavi (, born 13 February 1984) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former played as a setter for the Iran national team of the year 2007–2016.Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) *Best Outside Spikers *:

Uroš Kovačević Uroš Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Урош Ковачевић; born 6 May 1993) is a Serbian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Gas Sales Piacenza and the Serbia national team. Kovačević has won 2 European Champion ...

( Al Arabi) *: Milad Ebadipour ( Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) *Best Middle Blockers *:

Leandro Vissotto Leandro Vissotto Neves (born 30 April 1983) is a Brazilian volleyball player, a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Brazilian club EMS Taubaté Funvic. Vissotto is a winner silver medalist of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Olympic Gam ...

( Al Arabi) *: Mohammad Mousavi ( Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) *Best Opposite Spiker *:

György Grozer György Grozer (born 27 November 1984), also known as Georg Grozer, is a German professional volleyball player of Hungarian origin who plays as an opposite spiker for Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and the Germany national team. Personal life Gr ...

( Shanghai Golden Age) *Best Libero *:

Koichiro Koga is a retired Japanese male volleyball player. He was a part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On club level, he played for Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza and then Wolf Dogs Nagoya. His retirement was announced on March 7, 2021. Personal li ...

(

Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza The Wolf Dogs Nagoya () are a men's volleyball team based in Inazawa, Aichi, Japan. They play in the V.League (Japan), V.Premier League. History The Toyota Gosei Trefuerza volleyball team was founded in 1961 by enthusiasts as a 9-player team. I ...

)

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