Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship

Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship

Most recent season or competition: 2019 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship
Sport	Volleyball
Founded	2015
First season	2015
No. of teams	16 (Finals)
Continent	Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Most recent champion(s)	Chinese Taipei (1st title)
Most titles	Iran (2 titles)
Broadcaster(s)	SMMTV
Official website	Asian Volleyball Confederation

The Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under 23 men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Tournaments have been awarded every two years since 2015.

The current champion is Chinese Taipei, which won its first title at the 2019 tournament.

The 2019 Asian Championship took place in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Results summary

Year	Host		Final				Third place match				Teams
			Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third-place	Score	Fourth-place
2015 Details	Naypyidaw		Iran	3–0	South Korea		Chinese Taipei	3–1	China		16
2017 Details	Ardabil		Iran	3–0	Japan		Chinese Taipei	3–1	Thailand		11
2019 Details	Naypyidaw		Chinese Taipei	3–1	India		Japan	3–0	Pakistan		16

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Champions	Runners-up	3rd place	4th place
Iran	2 (2015, 2017)
Chinese Taipei	1 (2019)		2 (2015, 2017)
Japan		1 (2017)	1 (2019)
South Korea		1 (2015)
India		1 (2019)
China				1 (2015)
Thailand				1 (2017)
Pakistan				1 (2019)

Champions by region

Federation (Region)	Champion(s)	Number
CAZVA (Central Asia)	Iran (2)	2 titles
EAZVA (East Asia)	Chinese Taipei (1)	1 titles

Hosts

Times Hosted	Nations	Year(s)
2	Myanmar	2015 , 2019
1	Iran	2017

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran	2	0	0	2
2	Chinese Taipei	1	0	2	3
3	Japan	0	1	1	2
4	India	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

Participating nations

Team	2015 (16)	2017 (11)	2019 (16)	Total
Australia	10th	11th	7th	3
Bahrain	•	•	12th	1
China	4th	5th	6th	3
Chinese Taipei	3rd	3rd	1st	3
Hong Kong	•	•	14th	1
India	8th	•	2nd	2
Indonesia	9th	•	•	1
Iran	1st	1st	•	2
Japan	6th	2nd	3rd	3
Kazakhstan	13th	7th	5th	3
Malaysia	•	8th	•	1
Maldives	16th	•	•	1
Myanmar	5th	•	10th	2
New Zealand	•	•	16th	1
Pakistan	•	6th	4th	2
Philippines	14th	•	•	1
Qatar	11th	•	13th	2
Saudi Arabia	12th	•	15th	2
South Korea	2nd	•	•	1
Sri Lanka	•	10th	8th	2
Thailand	7th	4th	11th	3
Uzbekistan	•	9th	•	1
Vietnam	15th	•	9th	2

Debut of teams

Year	Debutants	Total
2015	Australia	16
	China
	Chinese Taipei
	India
	Indonesia
	Iran
	Japan
	Kazakhstan
	Maldives
	Myanmar
	Philippines
	Qatar
	Saudi Arabia
	South Korea
	Thailand
	Vietnam
2017	Malaysia	4
	Pakistan
	Sri Lanka
	Uzbekistan
2019	Bahrain	3
	Hong Kong
	New Zealand

Awards

Year Most Valuable Player 2015 Pouria Fayazi 2017 Rahman Taghizadeh 2019 Chan Minhan Year Best Outside Spikers 2015 Pouria Fayazi Liu Hung-Min 2017 Masato Katsuoka Esmaeil Mosafer 2019 Arai Yudai Ali Usman Faryad Year Best Opposite Spiker 2015 Jung Ji-seok 2017 Amin Esmaeilnejad 2019 Chang Yu-Sheng

Year Best Setter 2015 Mostafa Bagheri 2017 Masaki Oya 2019 Appavu Muthusamy Year Best Middle Blockers 2015 Kim In-hyeok Javad Hosseinabadi 2017 Lee Hsing-kuo Sahand Allahverdian 2019 Murayama Go Prince Year Best Libero 2015 Lee Ji-hun 2017 Su Hou-chen 2019 Zhang Yun-Liang

See also

• Volleyball portal
• Sports portal
• Asia portal

• Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship
• Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
• Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship
• Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship
• Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship

External links

• Official AVC website