Sport | Volleyball |
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Founded | 1974 |
Ceased | 2018 |
No. of teams | Various |
Continent | Asia and Oceania (AVC) |
The FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship Qualification (AVC) was a volleyball qualification tournament for the FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship. Contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC).
Year | Host | Qualified Teams | Teams | |||
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Winners | Runners-up | |||||
1974 | Manila | South Korea | Republic of China [note 1] | 5 | ||
1978 | Hong Kong | South Korea | China | 4 | ||
1986 | Sydney | Chinese Taipei | — | 4 | ||
1994 | Sydney | Japan | China | 5 |
* Not held in 1982 and 1990.
Year | Qualified Teams | Teams | |||||
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First pool | Second pool | Third pool | Fourth pool | ||||
1998 | Jeddah | Tehran | Tashkent | — | 10 | ||
South Korea Thailand | China Iran | Australia | |||||
2002 | Almaty | Doha | Macau | — | 12 | ||
South Korea [note 2] Kazakhstan | Japan | China Australia | |||||
2006 | Almaty | Chennai | Tehran | Chennai | 12 | ||
Kazakhstan | China | Iran | South Korea Australia | ||||
2010 | Chengdu | Komaki | — | 8 | |||
China Australia | Japan Iran | ||||||
2014 | Canberra | Tehran | Chenzhou | Komaki | 16 | ||
Australia | Iran | China | South Korea | ||||
2018 | Ardabil | Canberra | — | 10 | |||
Iran China | Japan Australia |
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