The 2022 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship was the 21st 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 22 to 29 August.
This tournament served as the qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Players must be born on or after January 1, 2003. Players who had played twice in the FIVB Junior (U20 or U21) Championships cannot play in AVC Junior Championship as it is a qualification event for the following year of FIVB Junior event.
Qualification The 18 AVC member associations submitted their U20 men's national team to the 2022 Asian U20 Championship. But, Kazakhstan later withdrew. The 17 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 teams), Southeast Asia (1 teams) and West Asia (6 teams).
Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the tournament.
Means of qualificationBerthsQualifiedHost Country1Central Asian teams5East Asian teams5Oceanian teams1Southeast Asian teams1West Asian teams5Total 18
Pools composition Pool APool BPool CPool DPool EPool F (Hosts) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (16) (13) (12)* (8) (7) (6) (19) (15) (18) * Kazakhstan withdrew from the competition.
Format Preliminary round: All teams are divided into 6 pools. Robin round to classify ranking. Top 2 teams advance to Classification round of 1st - 12th places. The bottom teams to enter to Classification round of 13th - 18th.
Classification & Final round: Knockout stage. Drawing of lots will be taken to determine the best team of each group's opponent. Winner to advance to quarterfinals. The best team of Pool A and Pool B and their opponents will enter to quarterfinal directly. Teams have faced each other in Preliminary round will not play again in Classification round. The losing teams at knockout stage are subjected to play classification match to determine final ranking.
The drawing of lots for second was scheduled to take place on Wednesday 24 August 2022 at 9pm local time.
Venues Pool A, B, CPool D, E, FRiffa, BahrainIsa Sports City Hall Court 1Isa Sports City Hall Court 2Capacity: unknownCapacity: unknown
Pool standing procedure Number of victories Match points Sets quotient Points quotient If the tie continues as per the point quotient 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. Match forfeited: 0 point (25–0;25-0;25-0)
Preliminary round All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Final round All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3:00).
13th–17th playoffs
1st–12th playoffs
7th–12th playoffs
Quarterfinals
13th–16th semifinals
15th place match
13th place match
11th place match
7th–10th semifinals
9th place match
7th place match
5th place match
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam4567891011121314151617 Qualified for the 2023 U21 World Championship
12–man rosterSajad Jelodarian, Mahdi Bayati, Porya Hosseinpour, Yousef Kazemi Poshtpari, Younes Javan, Amir Mohammad Golzadeh, Poriya Hossein Khanzadeh, Mohammad Matin Jafari Baghmaleki, Pendar Momeni Moghadam, Erfan Norouzi, Mobin Nasri, Arshia BehnezhadHead coachGholamreza Momeni Moghadam
Awards
Most valuable player
Best setter
Best outside spikers
Best middle blockers
Best opposite spiker
Best libero
See also 2022 Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship 2022 Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship
References
External links Asian Volleyball Confederation – official website Team Roster