The 2018 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the

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 ...

, an annual international

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club tournament organised by the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...

(AVC) with Myanmar Volleyball Federation (MVF). The tournament was held in

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from 30 July to 6 August 2018. The champions qualified for the

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instead of the 2017 champions Sarmayeh Bank Tehran, who withdrew from the 2018 Club World Championship.

Qualification

The 13 AVC member associations submitted their men's club to the 2018 Asian Club Championship. The 13 AVC member associations were from 4 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (5 teams), East Asia (4 teams), Oceania (1 team) and Southeast Asia (3 teams).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

This was the first Asian Club Championship which used the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration's unanimous decision, the new format saw teams were drawn into four pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the hosts was assigned into a pool according to their final standing of the 2017 edition. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same pool A, the next best three contested pool B, the next best four contested pool C. Final standing of the 2017 edition are shown in brackets.

Venues

* Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall B,

* Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall C,

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+06:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+06:30).

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

9th–12th semifinal

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *:

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( Khatam Ardakan) *Best setter *: Roman Khandrolin (

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) *Best outside spikers *: Hossein Amiri ( Khatam Ardakan) *: Aibat Netalin (

) *Best middle blockers *:

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( Khatam Ardakan) *: Nguyễn Dinh Nhu ( Sanest Khánh Hòa) *Best opposite spiker *: Aimal Khan (

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) *Best libero *: Mojtaba Yousefi ( Khatam Ardakan)

References

External links

Official websiteSquads
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