The 2018 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the

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, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

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(AVC) with Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament was held in

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from 21 to 28 July 2018. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the

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as the AVC representatives. Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999. And they can enroll themselves maximum for twice championships. On 14 December 2020, the AVC announced that the 2020 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship which was originally the AVC qualifier for the

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was canceled due to

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and the top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Qualification

The 24 AVC member associations submitted their U20 men's national team to the 2018 Asian U20 Championship. But, Uzbekistan later withdrew. The 23 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (7 teams), East Asia (6 teams), Oceania (2 teams), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (6 teams).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

This was the first Asian U20 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 eight 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 2016 edition. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same pool A, the next best three contested pool B, the next best three contested pool C. But, Uzbekistan withdrew after the draw. Final standing of the 2016 edition are shown in brackets.

Venues

* Isa Sports City Hall C,

– Pool A, B, D, E and Final round * Isa Sports City Hall B,

– Pool C, F, G, H and Final round

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+03:00). *Originally, the third ranked team of pool D had to play against the third ranked team of pool G in the playoffs. However, due to the absence of Uzbekistan, there were only two teams in pool G, so the third ranked team of pool D went directly to the round of 16.

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+03:00).

Playoffs

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

21st–23rd semifinal

17th–20th semifinals

13th–16th semifinals

9th–12th semifinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

21st place match

19th place match

17th place match

15th place match

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 *: Amirhossein Esfandiar *Best setter *: Choi Ik-je *Best outside spikers *: Morteza Sharifi *:

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*Best middle blockers *: Soranan Nuampara *: Mehran Feyz *Best opposite spiker *: Ali Sahib Abushanan *Best libero *: Park Kyeong-min

References

External links

Official websiteSquads
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