The 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the nineteenth staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, the biennial international men's volleyball championship of Asia organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyball Federation (PBVSI). The tournament was held in Gresik, Indonesia from 24 July to 1 August 2017.

Qualification The 16 AVC member associations submitted their men's national team to the 2017 Asian Championship. The 16 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 team), Southeast Asia (3 teams), and West Asian teams (3 teams).

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualificationBerthsQualifiedHost Country1Central Asian teams4East Asian teams5Oceanian team1Southeast Asian teams2West Asian teams3Total 16

Pools composition

Preliminary round Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 22 August 2016. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 February 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 42nd.

Seeded TeamsPool APool BPool CPool D (Hosts) (36) (7) (33) (14) (22) (15) (20)Unseeded Teams (36) (42)

(50) (50)

(77) (77)

(77) (77)

Draw Pool APool BPool CPool D

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Squads

Venues Preliminary round, Pool E, Fand Final eightPreliminary round, Pool G, H,13th–16th places and 9th–12th placesGresik, IndonesiaTri Dharma Petrokimia GymnasiumWahana Ekspresi Poesponegoro GymnasiumCapacity: UnknownCapacity: Unknown

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 Indonesia Western Time (UTC+07:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round All times are Indonesia Western Time (UTC+07:00). The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round.

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round All times are Indonesia Western Time (UTC+07:00).

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

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14–man rosterOtake, Hideomi Fukatsu (c), Naonobu Fujii, Yuta Yoneyama, Akihiro Yamauchi, Takashi Dekita, Masahiro Yanagida, Satoshi Ide, Shuzo Yamada, Yūki Ishikawa, Haku Ri, Kentaro Takahashi, Hiroaki Asano, Taichiro KogaHead coachYuichi Nakagaichi

Awards

Most valuable player Yūki Ishikawa Best setter Naonobu Fujii Best outside spikers Yūki Ishikawa Vitaliy Vorivodin Best middle blockers Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov Haku Ri Best opposite spiker Rivan Nurmulki Best libero Oh Jae-seong

See also 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

References

External links Official website Regulations Squads