The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twenty-first staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Japan Volleyball Association (JVA). The tournament was held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from 12 to 19 September 2021.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Host selection On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship:
Qualification Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all events will be selected by team for the host country teams based on the final standing of the previous edition teams from each zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)
Qualified teams Event(s)DatesLocationBerthsQualifier(s)Host nation 11 February 2020 N/A12019 Asian Championship 13 – 21 September 2019 Tehran 9 Direct zonal wildcards East Asia No later than 2 February 2021 N/A 1 Southeast Asia 1 West Asia3 2021 Central Asian Qualifier 14 July 2021 Colombo1 Total 16
Japan qualified as the hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to zonal entrants. Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam also submitted their entry for their participation in the tournament. However they could not be accommodated due to all 16 teams already confirmed at the time; This include the confirmation of the participation of 3 Western Asian teams and the conclusion of the Central Asia qualifier. Thailand was granted the sole Southeast Asian berth, the top ranked Southeast Asian team in the 2019 edition, which has earlier confirmed their participation. No qualification tournament was held. Sri Lanka originally qualified but withdrew due to all of its players and staff testing positive for COVID-19. As a result, Uzbekistan replaced Sri Lanka in August 2021.
Zonal qualification Only the Central Asian qualification tournament was held which was contested by Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Time is Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+05:30).
Pools composition
Preliminary round Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2019 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2019 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 16 July 2021. Final standings of the 2019 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 3rd.
Pots Seeded TeamsPot 2Pot 3 (Hosts) (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (14)* (15) (16) (N/A) (N/A) withdrew after the draw due to COVID-19 outbreak among the team, and was replaced by .
Pool APool BPool CPool D (Hosts) (1) (2) (4) (8) (7) (6) (5)
Classification round Final eight9th–16th placesPool EPool FPool GPool Hwidth=3% (Hosts)width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3% width=3%
Squads
Venues Preliminary round, Pool E, F,5th–8th places and Final fourPreliminary round, Pool G, H,13th–16th places and 9th–12th placesChiba, JapanFunabashi, JapanChiba Port ArenaFunabashi ArenaCapacity: 7,512Capacity: 4,368
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 Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Classification round All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00). 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 Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
13th–16th places
13th–16th semifinals
15th place match
13th place match
9th–12th places
9th–12th semifinals
11th place match
9th place match
5th–8th places
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam45678910111213141516 Qualified for the 2022 World Championship Qualified for the 2022 World Championship via the FIVB World Ranking
14–man rosterMahdi Jelveh, Milad Ebadipour (c), Reza Abedini, Amir Hossein Toukhteh, Aliasghar Mojarad, Esmaeil Mosafer, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Meisam Salehi, Saber Kazemi, Amir Hossein Esfandiar, Ali Ramezani, Javad Karimi, Amin Esmaeilnejad, Abolfazl GholipourHead coachBehrouz Ataei
Awards
Most valuable player
Best setter
Best outside spikers
Best middle blockers
Best opposite spiker
Best libero
See also 2021 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship 2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
References
External links Official website Regulations Squads