The 2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the

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, an annual international

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club tournament organized by the

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(AVC) with

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(TVA). The tournament was held in

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, from 8 to 15 October 2021. The champions qualified for the

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. The last edition was held in

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. A tournament was supposed to be held in 2020 in

but was cancelled due to the

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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 associations

: Thailand as host country is entitled to enter two teams if they are less than 16 entrants. Their two berths are credited to have been attained as host nation ''and'' tenth placers in the 2019 championships. : As Thailand already qualified as host, a berth was given to Kazakhstan through their eleventh place finishing of the 2019 championship.

Participating teams

The following teams participated for the tournament.

Squads

Draw

The draw was held on 3 August 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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

Venues

Matches will be held at the Terminal Hall – Terminal 21 Korat, an indoor arena within the

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Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+07:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+07:00).

9th–10th places

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *: Saber Kazemi (

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) *Best setter *: Georgiev Borislav ( Al Arabi) *Best outside spikers *:

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( Al Arabi) *: Vitaliy Vorivodin ( Burevestnik Almaty) *Best middle blockers *: Mahdi Jelveh (

) *: Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov ( Burevestnik Almaty) *Best opposite spiker *: Felipe Bandero ( Al Arabi) *Best libero *: Tanapat Charoensuk ( Nakhon Ratchasima QminC)

References

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