# Volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games

Indoor volleyball was contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. All matches played at the Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 26th Sun | 27th Mon | 28th Tue | 29th Wed | 30th Thu | 1st Fri | 2nd Sat | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 7th Thu | 8th Fri | 9th Sat | 10th Sun | 11th Mon | 12th Tue | 13th Wed | 14th Thu |
| Men | Q | Q | Q | | | | P | P | P | P | | P | | P | | ¼ | | ½ | F |
| Women | | | | | P | | P | P | P | P | P | | ¼ | | ½ | | F | | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Shin Jin-sik Kwon Young-min Moon Sung-min Yeo Oh-hyun Song Byung-il Lee Sun-kyu Who In-jung Yun Bong-woo Lee Kyung-soo Kim Yo-han Ha Kyoung-min Chang Byung-chul | China Cui Xiaodong Yuan Zhi Guo Peng Wang Haichuan Tang Miao Cui Jianjun Li Chun Yu Dawei Shen Qiong Jiang Fudong Ren Qi Sui Shengsheng | Saudi Arabia Ahmed Al-Bakhit Naif Al-Buhassoun Yahya Hanash Ibrahim Al-Harbi Abdullah Al-Bahli Sharif Al-Khalifa Khalil Hajji Thamer Al-Dossari Khalid Ozaibi Ismail Al-Khaibari Masfer Al-Bishi Yasser Al-Makawni |
| Women details | China Wang Yimei Feng Kun Yang Hao Liu Yanan Chu Jinling Li Shan Zhou Suhong Li Juan Song Nina Zhang Na Xu Yunli Zhang Ping | Japan Yoshie Takeshita Miyuki Takahashi Kaoru Sugayama Makiko Horai Sachiko Sugiyama Midori Takahashi Erika Araki Saori Kimura Shuka Oyama Mari Ochiai Akiko Ino Yuki Ishikawa | Chinese Taipei Yeh Hui-hsuan Lin Chun-yi Chen Hui-chen Chen Mei-ching Kou Nai-han Chiu Wen-ying Chen Shu-li Szu Hui-fang Lin Ching-i Tseng Hua-yu Wu Hsiao-li Juan Pei-chi |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha.

### Men

Due to scheduling conflicts with 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, China, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea alongside the host team Qatar qualified directly to the quarterfinal stage. The remaining teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship. India and Thailand, the next top two teams started the competition from the preliminary round.
* Withdrew.

#### Quarterfinals

* Qatar (Host) vs. 1st Preliminary – Pool B
* Asia Rank 1 vs. 1st Preliminary – Pool A
* Asia Rank 2 vs. Asia Rank 5
* Asia Rank 3 vs. Asia Rank 4
The teams were seeded based on their performance at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
| Team | Rank | Pts | PR | |
| Japan | 8 | | | Asia Rank 1 |
| China | 17 | 7 | | Asia Rank 2 |
| South Korea | 17 | 6 | | Asia Rank 3 |
| Iran | 21 | 5 | 0.835 | Asia Rank 4 |
| Kazakhstan | 21 | 5 | 0.832 | Asia Rank 5 |

### Women

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| | China | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| | Saudi Arabia | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 4 | Qatar | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | Iran | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 9 | India | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | Kuwait | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Thailand | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Hong Kong | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | Lebanon | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | Macau | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | Maldives | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Mongolia | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Palestine | 2 | 0 | 2 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| | Japan | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Thailand | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | South Korea | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | Kazakhstan | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | Vietnam | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Mongolia | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | Tajikistan | 4 | 0 | 4 |