Current season, competition or edition: 2019 Arab Youth Volleyball Championship | |
| Sport | Volleyball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1983 |
| Inaugural season | 1983 |
| Country | AVA members |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Egypt (2019)(1st title) |
| Most titles |  Tunisia  Bahrain (4 titles) |
| Official website | http://www.arabvolleyball.org/ |
The Arab Youth Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams with players under 19 years, currently held biannually and organized by the Arab Volleyball Association.
| Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 1983 Details |  Riyadh |  Saudi Arabia | – | – | |||||
| 1988 Details | Alexandria |  Qatar | – | – |  Kuwait | ||||
| 1992 Details |  Tunisia |  Tunisia | – | – | |||||
| 1994 Details | Egypt | Tunisia | – |  Bahrain | – | ||||
| 1996 Details | Egypt | Tunisia | 3 – 2 |  Egypt | – | ||||
| 1998 Details |  Bahrain | Saudi Arabia | – | Bahrain | Tunisia | – | |||
| 2000 Details |  Amman | Bahrain | No playoffs | Saudi Arabia | Qatar | No playoffs |  Jordan | ||
| 2002 Details |  Doha | Qatar | – | Saudi Arabia | – | ||||
| 2007 Details |  Latakia |  Yemen | 3 – 0 |  Bahrain | Kuwait | 3 – 1 |  Tunisia | ||
| 2009 Details |  Beirut | Tunisia | 3 – 0 | Egypt | Saudi Arabia | 3 – 2 |  Iraq | ||
| 2011 Details | Hurghada | Bahrain | 3 – 0 | Tunisia | Egypt | 3 – 0 |  Algeria | ||
| 2013 Details | Sidi Bou Said | Bahrain | 3 – 1 | Tunisia | Qatar | 3 – 0 | Yemen | ||
| 2015 Details |  Salé | Algeria | 3 – 0 |  Morocco | Qatar | 3 – 0 | Tunisia | ||
| 2017 Details | Amman | Bahrain |  Oman | Iraq | |||||
| 2019 Details | Amman | Egypt | 3 – 0 | Bahrain | |||||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahrain | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Tunisia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Qatar | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Egypt | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 |  Algeria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Yemen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Morocco | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Oman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 |  Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 nations) | 15 | 12 | 7 | 34 | |
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