2018 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship

2018 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship
The 2018 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament was held in Riffa, Bahrain from 21 to 28 July 2018. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999. And they can enroll themselves maximum for twice championships.
On 14 December 2020, the AVC announced that the 2020 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship which was originally the AVC qualifier for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic and the top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Qualification
The 24 AVC member associations submitted their U20 men's national team to the 2018 Asian U20 Championship. But, Uzbekistan later withdrew. The 23 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (7 teams), East Asia (6 teams), Oceania (2 teams), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (6 teams).
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
Pools composition
This was the first Asian U20 Championship which used the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration's unanimous decision, the new format saw teams were drawn into eight pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the hosts was assigned into a pool according to their final standing of the 2016 edition. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same pool A, the next best three contested pool B, the next best three contested pool C. But, Uzbekistan withdrew after the draw. Final standing of the 2016 edition are shown in brackets.
Venues
Isa Sports City Hall C, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool A, B, D, E and Final round
Isa Sports City Hall B, Riffa, Bahrain – Pool C, F, G, H and Final round
Pool standing procedure
Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Preliminary round
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
Originally, the third ranked team of pool D had to play against the third ranked team of pool G in the playoffs. However, due to the absence of Uzbekistan, there were only two teams in pool G, so the third ranked team of pool D went directly to the round of 16.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Final round
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).
Playoffs
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
21st–23rd semifinal
17th–20th semifinals
13th–16th semifinals
9th–12th semifinals
24
5th–8th semifinals
Semifinals
21st place match
19th place match
17th place match
15th place match
13th place match
11th place match
9th place match
7th place match
5th place match
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
Awards
Most valuable player
Amirhossein Esfandiar
Best setter
Choi Ik-je
Best outside spikers
Morteza Sharifi
Porya Yali
Best middle blockers
Soranan Nuampara
Mehran Feyz
Best opposite spiker
Ali Sahib Abushanan
Best libero
Park Kyeong-min
See also
2018 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship
References
External links
Official website
Squads
2018
Asian Men's U20 Championship
Asian Men's U20 Championship, 2018
2018 in Bahraini sport
July 2018 sports events in Asia