The 2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the twentieth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Korea Volleyball Association (KVA). The tournament was held in Seoul, South Korea, from 18 to 25 August 2019. South Korea played host to this event for the first time. The top eight teams of this tournament qualified for the 2020 AVC Women's Volleyball Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Qualification Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events were selected by: 1 team for the organizer 10 teams based on the rankings of the previous championship 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)
Qualified teams Means of qualificationDatesHostsQuotaQualifier(s)Host nation12017 Asian Championship9–17 August 2017 Biñan–Muntinlupa10 7SEAZVA representatives 1+1CAZVA representatives 1+1EAZVA representatives 1OZVA representatives 1WAZVA representatives 1 0Total13 South Korea qualified as the hosts and was originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the 11th-ranked team, Hong Kong. Philippines originally qualified, but declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked nation, New Zealand. SEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to Indonesia and Singapore. CEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to India and Sri Lanka.
Venues Second and final roundsSouth KoreaPreliminary round Jamsil Arena Jamsil Students' Gymnasium Capacity: 11,069 Capacity: 7,500
Pools composition
Preliminary round Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their previous edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the previous ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same zonal association. The draw was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019.
Ranking from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked third) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–).
Seeded TeamsPool APool BPool CPool D (Hosts) (3) (9) (1) (7) (2) (6) (4) (5)Unseeded Teams (10) (11)
(12) (13)
(–) (–)
(–) Draw Pool APool BPool CPool D
Pool standing procedure Number of matches won Match points Sets ratio Points ratio Result of the last match between the tied teams
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 Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Second round
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Final round
9th–12th Classification round
9th–12th semifinals
11th place match
9th place match
5th–8th Classification round
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standings
RankTeam 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Qualified for the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament and 2022 Asian Cup [except India; later Indonesia (Australia replace them) and Kazakhstan withdrew] Already qualified as hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics Qualified for the 2022 Asian Cup as host
Setter: Nanami Seki, Tamaki Matsui Middle blocker: Mai Irisawa, Nichika Yamada, Shion Hirayama, Kotomi Osaka Outside hitters: Miwako Osanai, Yuri Yoshino, Mayu Ishikawa, Yuki Nishikawa Opposite: Miyu Nakagawa, Haruna Soga Libero: Rena Mizusugi, Minami Nishimura
Awards
Most valuable player Mayu Ishikawa Best setter Nootsara Tomkom Best outside spikers Mayu Ishikawa Kim Yeon-koung
Best middle blockers Nichika Yamada Yang Hanyu Best opposite spiker Haruna Soga Best libero Piyanut Pannoy
Qualifying teams for 2020 Asian Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in AVC OQT 7 (1972, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) 4 (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) 3 (1996, 2004, 2012) 2 (2008, 2016) 0 (debut) 0 (debut) 0 (debut) 0 (debut)
See also 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship 2019 Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship 2019 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship
References
External links Asian Volleyball Confederation – official website