2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

والیبال قهرمانی مردان آسیا ۲۰۲۳
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Tournament details
Host nation	Iran
City	Urmia
Dates	19–26 August
Teams	17  (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2  (in 1 host city)
Champions	Japan (10th title)
Runners-up	Iran
Third place	Qatar
Fourth place	China
Tournament awards
MVP	Yūki Ishikawa
Best Setter	Mohammad Taher Vadi
Best OH	Ran Takahashi Raimi Wadidie
Best MB	Belal Nabel Abunabot Taishi Onodera
Best OPP	Amin Esmaeilnejad
Best Libero	Yang Yiming
Tournament statistics
Matches played	41
Attendance	92,120 (2,247 per match)
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2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
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The 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the 22nd staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). The tournament was held in Urmia, Iran from 19 to 26 August 2023. ^[1]

This was Iran's fifth time serving as the host nation.

Japan won their tenth title by defeating in straight sets the host and two-time defending champions Iran in the final. Iran took their third silver medal of the tournament. ^[2] Qatar won their first medal of the tournament, claiming the bronze after defeating China (3–0) in the third place match. ^[3] Yūki Ishikawa named as the MVP of the tournament. ^[4]

Japan, Iran, and Qatar, the top three teams of the tournament qualifed for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.

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 teams

The AVC stated that there were originally eighteen entrant teams that were due to participate in the tournament. However, on 17 August 2023, Mongolia announced that they withdrew from the tournament. ^{[5] [6]}

Event(s)		Dates	Location	Berths	Qualifier(s)
Host nation		20 December 2022 [7]	—	1	Iran
2021 Asian Championship		12 – 19 September 2021	Chiba and Funabashi	10 [upper-alpha 1]	Iran   Japan   China   Chinese Taipei   Qatar   Australia   Pakistan   South Korea   India   Bahrain   Kazakhstan   Saudi Arabia   Uzbekistan
Direct zonal wildcards	Central Asia	2 February 2023	—	2	Sri Lanka   Bangladesh   Afghanistan
	East Asia			1	Hong Kong   Mongolia
	Southeast Asia			2	Thailand   Indonesia   Philippines
	West Asia			1	Iraq   Kuwait
Total				17

Note:

1. The host Iran was originally in top 10 of the previous edition. The spot was reallocated to Kazakhstan (11th placers). However, since Australia (6th placers) withdrew from the tournament and either did Saudi Arabia (12th placers), the spot was reallocated to Uzbekistan (13th placers).

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2021 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2021 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 16 March 2023. Final standings of the 2021 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st. ^{[8] [9]}

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Iran (Hosts)	Japan (2)	China (3)	Chinese Taipei (4)	Qatar (5)	Pakistan (7)
Hong Kong (14)	Uzbekistan (13)	Kazakhstan (11)	Bahrain (10)	India (9)	South Korea (8)
Iraq (–)	Thailand (15)	Indonesia (–)	Mongolia (–)*	Afghanistan (–)	Bangladesh (–)

* Mongolia withdrew from the tournament. ^[5]

Squads

Main article: 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship squads

Venues

Preliminary round and Final twelve	Preliminary round, 13th–17th places and Final twelve
Urmia, Iran
Ghadir Arena (GHA)	Shahidan Ahandoust Hall (SAH)
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 3,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. 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
3. 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.

Preliminary round

• All times are Iran Standard Time (UTC+03:30).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Iran (H)	2	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	169	111	1.523	Final twelve
2	Iraq	2	1	1	2	4	5	0.800	167	193	0.865
3	Hong Kong	2	0	2	1	2	6	0.333	144	176	0.818	13th–17th places

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023
(H) Host

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Aug	16:15	SAH	Hong Kong	2–3	Iraq	21–25	16–25	25–14	25–22	12–15	99–101	P2 Report
20 Aug	19:15	GHA	Iran	3–0	Hong Kong	25–14	25–15	25–16			75–45	P2 Report
21 Aug	19:15	GHA	Iraq	1–3	Iran	25–19	12–25	15–25	14–25		66–94	P2 Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Japan	2	2	0	6	6	0	MAX	150	102	1.471	Final twelve
2	Thailand	2	1	1	3	3	3	1.000	137	128	1.070
3	Uzbekistan	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	93	150	0.620	13th–17th places

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Aug	13:15	GHA	Japan	3–0	Thailand	25–19	25–21	25–22			75–62	P2 Report
20 Aug	13:15	GHA	Uzbekistan	0–3	Japan	8–25	19–25	13–25			40–75	P2 Report
21 Aug	13:15	GHA	Thailand	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–17	25–20	25–16			75–53	P2 Report

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	China	2	2	0	4	6	4	1.500	220	203	1.084	Final twelve
2	Indonesia	2	1	1	4	5	4	1.250	206	191	1.079
3	Kazakhstan	2	0	2	1	3	6	0.500	174	206	0.845	13th–17th places

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Aug	13:15	SAH	Indonesia	2–3	China	22–25	25–22	19–25	28–26	13–15	107–113	P2 Report
20 Aug	13:15	SAH	Kazakhstan	1–3	Indonesia	26–24	19–25	12–25	21–25		78–99	P2 Report
21 Aug	13:15	SAH	China	3–2	Kazakhstan	20–25	25–17	22–25	25–17	15–12	107–96	P2 Report

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	2	3	2	1.500	110	104	1.058	Final twelve
2	Bahrain	1	0	1	1	2	3	0.667	104	110	0.945

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Aug	19:15	SAH	Bahrain	2–3	Chinese Taipei	25–23	25–22	21–25	22–25	11–15	104–110	P2 Report

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Qatar	2	2	0	6	6	0	MAX	150	112	1.339	Final twelve
2	India	2	1	1	3	3	4	0.750	156	157	0.994
3	Afghanistan	2	0	2	0	1	6	0.167	136	173	0.786	13th–17th places

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Aug	16:15	GHA	Qatar	3–0	India	25–20	25–19	25–19			75–58	P2 Report
20 Aug	16:15	GHA	Afghanistan	0–3	Qatar	19–25	16–25	19–25			54–75	P2 Report
21 Aug	16:15	SAH	India	3–1	Afghanistan	25–15	25–23	23–25	25–19		98–82	P2 Report

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	South Korea	2	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	183	160	1.144	Final twelve
2	Pakistan	2	1	1	3	4	3	1.333	175	160	1.094
3	Bangladesh	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	112	150	0.747	13th–17th places

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Aug	19:15	GHA	Bangladesh	0–3	South Korea	19–25	22–25	19–25			60–75	P2 Report
20 Aug	16:15	SAH	Pakistan	3–0	Bangladesh	25–16	25–14	25–22			75–52	P2 Report
21 Aug	16:15	GHA	South Korea	3–1	Pakistan	26–28	25–20	32–30	25–22		108–100	P2 Report

Final round

13th–17th places

	13th–17th places				13th–16th places				13th place match
					24 August
					Hong Kong	0
	23 August
					Kazakhstan	3
	Uzbekistan	1
									25 August
	Kazakhstan	3
									Kazakhstan	3
									Afghanistan	1
					24 August
					Bangladesh	1
					Afghanistan	3			15th place match
	Afghanistan	W
									25 August
	Bye
									Hong Kong	1
									Bangladesh	3

13th–17th places

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
23 Aug	13:15	SAH	Uzbekistan	1–3	Kazakhstan	25–18	23–25	17–25	19–25		84–93	P2 Report

13th–16th places

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	13:15	SAH	Hong Kong	0–3	Kazakhstan	18–25	17–25	17–25			52–75	P2 Report
24 Aug	16:15	SAH	Bangladesh	1–3	Afghanistan	25–22	21–25	23–25	21–25		90–97	P2 Report

15th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	10:15	SAH	Hong Kong	1–3	Bangladesh	22–25	23–25	25–20	19–25		89–95	P2 Report

13th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	13:15	SAH	Kazakhstan	3–1	Afghanistan	23–25	25–20	25–17	25–13		98–75	P2 Report

Final twelve

Round of 12

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

23 August

Iran

3

Pakistan

0

25 August

Iran

3

23 August

China

0

China

3

24 August

India

2

China

3

23 August

South Korea

1

South Korea

3

26 August

Indonesia

2

Iran

0

23 August

Japan

3

Japan

3

Bahrain

0

25 August

Japan

3

23 August

Qatar

1

3rd place match

Chinese Taipei

3

24 August

26 August

Iraq

0

Chinese Taipei

0

China

0

23 August

Qatar

3

Qatar

3

Qatar

3

Thailand

0

	5th place match
	25 August
	South Korea	3
	Chinese Taipei	1

	7th–12th places				7th–10th places				7th place match
					25 August
					Pakistan	3
	24 August
					Indonesia	2
	India	0
									26 August
	Indonesia	3
									Pakistan	3
									Bahrain	1
					25 August
					Bahrain	3
	24 August
					Thailand	2			9th place match
	Iraq	1
									26 August
	Thailand	3
									Indonesia	3
									Thailand	0

	11th place match
	25 August
	India	3
	Iraq	0

Round of 12

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
23 Aug	10:15	GHA	South Korea	3–2	Indonesia	25–16	19–25	22–25	25–19	16–14	107–99	P2 Report
23 Aug	13:15	GHA	Japan	3–0	Bahrain	25–14	25–14	25–17			75–45	P2 Report
23 Aug	16:15	GHA	Qatar	3–0	Thailand	25–23	25–19	25–22			75–64	P2 Report
23 Aug	16:15	SAH	China	3–2	India	31–29	19–25	25–18	22–25	15–13	112–110	P2 Report
23 Aug	19:15	GHA	Iran	3–0	Pakistan	25–18	25–15	25–13			75–46	P2 Report
23 Aug	19:15	SAH	Chinese Taipei	3–0	Iraq	25–19	25–18	25–18			75–55	P2 Report

7th–12th places

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	10:15	GHA	India	0–3	Indonesia	29–31	18–25	12–25			59–81	P2 Report
24 Aug	13:15	GHA	Iraq	1–3	Thailand	25–22	19–25	20–25	18–25		82–97	P2 Report

Quarterfinals

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	16:15	GHA	Chinese Taipei	0–3	Qatar	16–25	15–25	23–25			54–75	P2 Report
24 Aug	19:15	GHA	China	3–1	South Korea	21–25	25–22	28–26	25–18		99–91	P2 Report

7th–10th places

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	10:15	GHA	Pakistan	3–2	Indonesia	19–25	25–22	23–25	25–13	15–12	107–97	P2 Report
25 Aug	13:15	GHA	Bahrain	3–2	Thailand	17–25	20–25	25–23	25–21	15–10	102–104	P2 Report

Semifinals

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	16:15	GHA	Japan	3–1	Qatar	22–25	25–18	25–14	28–26		100–83	P2 Report
25 Aug	19:15	GHA	Iran	3–0	China	25–20	25–23	25–23			75–66	P2 Report

11th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	16:15	SAH	India	3–0	Iraq	25–17	25–23	25–16			75–56	P2 Report

9th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Aug	10:00	SAH	Indonesia	3–0	Thailand	25–21	25–23	25–21			75–65	P2 Report

7th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Aug	13:00	SAH	Pakistan	3–1	Bahrain	25–22	21–25	25–18	25–18		96–83	P2 Report

5th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	19:15	SAH	South Korea	3–1	Chinese Taipei	18–25	25–23	25–14	25–19		93–81	P2 Report

3rd place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Aug	15:00	GHA	China	0–3	Qatar	23–25	19–25	18–25			60–75	P2 Report

Final

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Aug	18:00	GHA	Iran	0–3	Japan	20–25	18–25	18–25			56–75	P2 Report

Final standing

Rank Team   Japan   Iran   Qatar 4   China 5   South Korea 6   Chinese Taipei 7   Pakistan 8   Bahrain 9   Indonesia 10   Thailand 11   India 12   Iraq 13   Kazakhstan 14   Afghanistan 15   Bangladesh 16   Hong Kong 17   Uzbekistan Qualified for the 2025 World Championship

2023 Asian Men's champions  Japan 10th title 14–man roster Yuji Nishida, Taishi Onodera, Kento Miyaura, Tatsunori Otsuka, Akihiro Yamauchi, Masahiro Sekita, Kentaro Takahashi, Ran Takahashi, Tomohiro Ogawa, Yūki Ishikawa, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Larry Evbade-Dan, Ryu Yamamoto, Masato Kai Head coach Philippe Blain

Awards

Yūki Ishikawa was the 2023 AVC Championship Most Valuable Player

• Most valuable player

    Yūki Ishikawa  (JPN)

• Best setter

    Mohammad Taher Vadi  (IRI)

• Best outside spikers

    Ran Takahashi  (JPN)

    Raimi Wadidie  (QAT)

• Best middle blockers

    Belal Nabel Abunabot  (QAT)

    Taishi Onodera  (JPN)

• Best opposite spiker

    Amin Esmaeilnejad  (IRI)

• Best libero

    Yang Yiming  (CHN)

See also

• 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
• 2023 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
• 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Challenge Cup

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