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tournament organised by the

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(AVC), in that year with the Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament was held at the Isa Bin Rashid Hall in

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, Bahrain from 2 to 9 June 2024. The winners of the tournament,

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, qualified for the 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup. Qatar won their first title after defeating

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in a straight-sets final.

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defeated

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in a four-set 3rd place match and took the bronze medal.

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was named as the

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of the tournament.

Host selection

Bahrain and Australia submitted its bid to host the tournament by December 2023. Bahrain was awarded the hosting rights.

Team

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, the maximum of 12 teams in for the AVC Challenge Cup will be selected by: *1 team for the host country *1 team: the defending champion from the previous edition (

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) *5 other top-ranked teams from the previous edition *5 other entrant teams with consideration given for FIVB world rankings

Qualified teams

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, were ineligible to submit entries to this tournament.

Venue

Pools composition

The overview of pools was released on 3 May 2024.

Pool standing procedure

# Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) # In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: #* Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser #* Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser #* Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser # If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: #* Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. #* Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. #* If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Squads

The full list of team squads were announced on the competition daily bulletin.

Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+03:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+03:00).

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

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 *: *Best setter *: *Best outside spikers *: *: *Best middle blockers *: *: *Best opposite spiker *: *Best libero *:

Notes

References

External links

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Teams
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