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2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

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:

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]

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]

* Mongolia withdrew from the tournament.[5]

Squads

Venues

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

Pool A

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

Pool B

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Pool C

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Pool D

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Pool E

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Pool F

Source: Men's Asian Senior Championship 2023

Final round

13th–17th places

13th–17th places

13th–16th places

15th place match

13th place match

Final twelve

Round of 12

7th–12th places

Quarterfinals

7th–10th places

Semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

Yūki Ishikawa was the 2023 AVC Championship Most Valuable Player

See also

References

  1. ^ "Urmia's hosting in AVC was approved". volleyball.ir. Archived from the original on 18 June 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  2. ^ Preechachan (27 August 2023). "JAPAN POWER PAST IRAN IN THRILLING THREE-SETTER TO REIGN SUPREME AT 22ND ASIAN SENIOR MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP". Asian Volleyball Confederation. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ Preechachan (26 August 2023). "QATAR PICK UP BRONZE AT 22ND ASIAN SENIOR MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER 3-0 BLITZ OVER CHINA". Asian Volleyball Confederation. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  4. ^ Preechachan (27 August 2023). "JAPAN CROWNED ASIAN SENIOR MEN'S CHAMPIONS IN URMIA". Asian Volleyball Confederation. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b "AVC Men's Volleyball Championship 2023 / Mongolia withdrew". volleyball.ir. Archived from the original on 17 August 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  6. ^ "ثبت‌نام ۲۱ کشور در والیبال قهرمانی آسیا ۲۰۲۳ تهران - ایسنا". www.isna.ir (in Persian). Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  7. ^ Preechachan (20 December 2022). "AVC releases 2023 Competition Calendar". AVC. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  8. ^ Preechachan (16 March 2023). "Results of Remaining Six 2023 AVC Championships Drawing of Lots Revealed". AVC. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  9. ^ "2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship draw". IRIVF. 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 4 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.

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