2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

2021 Asian Men's Championship
バレーボールアジア選手権; 日本 2021
Tournament details
Host nation	Japan
Dates	12–19 September
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Champions	Iran (4th title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	China
Fourth place	Chinese Taipei
Tournament awards
MVP	Saber Kazemi
Best Setter	Javad Karimi
Best OH	Milad Ebadipour; Yūki Ishikawa
Best MB	Aliasghar Mojarrad;
Best OPP	Kento Miyaura
Best Libero	Mohammad Reza Hazratpour
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The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the 21st edition 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:^[1]

Japan

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)		Dates	Location	Berths	Qualifier(s)
Host nation		11 February 2020	N/A	1	Japan
2019 Asian Championship		13 – 21 September 2019	Tehran	9^A	Iran Australia ~~Japan~~ South Korea Chinese Taipei China Pakistan India Qatar Kazakhstan
Direct zonal wildcards	East Asia	No later than 2 February 2021	N/A	1	Hong Kong
	Southeast Asia			1^B	Thailand
	West Asia			3^B	Bahrain Kuwait
2021 Central Asian Qualifier		14 July 2021	Colombo	1^C	~~Sri Lanka~~ Uzbekistan
Total				16

^A Japan qualified as the hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to zonal entrants.

^B 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.^[2]

^C 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Time is Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
14 Jul	14:30	Sri Lanka	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–23	25–13	25–22			75–58	Report

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.^[5] Final standings of the 2019 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 3rd.

Pots

Seeded Teams		Pot 2	Pot 3
Japan (Hosts) Iran (1) Australia (2) South Korea (4)	Chinese Taipei (5) China (6) Pakistan (7) India (8)	Qatar (9) Kazakhstan (10) Thailand (11) Uzbekistan (N/A)	Kuwait (15) Hong Kong (16) Bahrain (N/A) (N/A)

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Japan (Hosts)	Iran (1)	Australia (2)	South Korea (4)
India (8)	Pakistan (7)	China (6)	Chinese Taipei (5)
Qatar	Thailand	Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan
Bahrain	Hong Kong	Kuwait

Classification round[]

Final eight				9th–16th places
Pool E		Pool F		Pool G		Pool H
1A	Japan (Hosts)	1B	Iran	3A	Bahrain	3B	Thailand
1C	Australia	1D	Chinese Taipei	3C	Kuwait	3D
2A	Qatar	2B	Pakistan	4A	India	4B	Hong Kong
2C	China	2D	South Korea	4C	Uzbekistan	4D	Kazakhstan

Squads[]

Venues[]

Preliminary round, Pool E, F, 5th–8th places and Final four	Preliminary round, Pool G, H, 13th–16th places and 9th–12th places
Chiba, Japan	Funabashi, Japan
Chiba Port Arena	Funabashi Arena
Capacity: 7,512	Capacity: 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).

	Qualified for the Final eight (Pools E and F)
	Qualified for the 9th–16th places (Pools G and H)

Pool A[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Japan	3	0	9	9	1	9.000	248	193	1.285
2	Qatar	2	1	6	6	3	2.000	215	194	1.108
3	Bahrain	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	221	241	0.917
4	India	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	171	227	0.753

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
12 Sep	09:30	CPA	Bahrain	3–0	India	27–25	25–21	25–21		77–67	P2
12 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	3–0	Qatar	25–20	25–23	25–21		75–64	P2
13 Sep	12:00	CPA	India	0–3	Qatar	22–25	14–25	20–25		56–75	P2
13 Sep	18:00	CPA	Bahrain	1–3	Japan	25–23	17–25	23–25	16–25	81–98	P2
14 Sep	12:00	CPA	Qatar	3–0	Bahrain	25–19	25–20	26–24		76–63	P2
14 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	3–0	India	25–15	25–15	25–18		75–48	P2

Pool B[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Iran	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	225	150	1.500
2	Pakistan	2	1	5	6	6	1.000	261	248	1.052
3	Thailand	1	2	4	5	7	0.714	251	275	0.913
4	Hong Kong	0	3	0	2	9	0.222	206	270	0.763

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Sep	15:00	CPA	Thailand	2–3	Pakistan	25–22	23–25	25–21	23–25	12–15	108–108	P2
12 Sep	15:00	FBA	Iran	3–0	Hong Kong	25–12	25–18	25–19			75–49	P2
13 Sep	09:30	CPA	Hong Kong	1–3	Pakistan	16–25	26–24	11–25	12–25		65–99	P2
13 Sep	15:00	CPA	Iran	3–0	Thailand	25–17	25–12	25–18			75–47	P2
14 Sep	09:30	CPA	Pakistan	0–3	Iran	20–25	19–25	15–25			54–75	P2
14 Sep	15:00	CPA	Thailand	3–1	Hong Kong	25–22	17–25	29–27	25–18		96–92	P2

Pool C[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Australia	3	0	8	9	2	4.500	263	209	1.258
2	China	2	1	7	8	3	2.667	261	207	1.261
3	Kuwait	1	2	3	3	7	0.429	185	244	0.758
4	Uzbekistan	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	196	245	0.800

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Sep	12:30	FBA	Kuwait	0–3	China	12–25	16–25	18–25			46–75	P2
12 Sep	17:30	FBA	Australia	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–16	25–19	25–19			75–54	P2
13 Sep	12:30	FBA	Uzbekistan	0–3	China	14–25	18–25	16–25			48–75	P2
13 Sep	15:00	FBA	Australia	3–0	Kuwait	25–21	25–14	25–9			75–44	P2
14 Sep	10:05	FBA	Kuwait	3–1	Uzbekistan	29–27	16–25	25–21	25–21		95–94	P2
14 Sep	17:40	FBA	China	2–3	Australia	27–25	25–20	21–25	26–28	12–15	111–113	P2

Pool D[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Chinese Taipei	3	0	9	9	1	9.000	248	196	1.265
2	South Korea	2	1	6	7	3	2.333	237	207	1.145
3		1	2	3	3	6	0.500	178	217	0.820
4	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	182	225	0.809

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
12 Sep	10:00	FBA	Chinese Taipei	3–0	Kazakhstan	25–20	25–22	25–19		75–61	P2
12 Sep	12:00	CPA		0–3	South Korea	18–25	17–25	20–25		55–75	P2
13 Sep	10:00	FBA		0–3	Chinese Taipei	15–25	16–25	17–25		48–75	P2
13 Sep	17:30	FBA	South Korea	3–0	Kazakhstan	25–21	25–17	25–16		75–54	P2
14 Sep	12:45	FBA	Kazakhstan	0–3		23–25	21–25	23–25		67–75	P2
14 Sep	15:00	FBA	Chinese Taipei	3–1	South Korea	23–25	25–21	25–20	25–21	98–87	P2

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.

	Qualified for the Semifinals
	Qualified for the 5th–8th semifinals
	Qualified for the 9th–12th semifinals
	Qualified for the 13th–16th semifinals

Pool E[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Japan	2	1	6	7	3	2.333	238	229	1.039
2	China	2	1	6	8	6	1.333	328	309	1.061
3	Qatar	1	2	4	5	6	0.833	247	251	0.984
4	Australia	1	2	2	3	8	0.375	237	261	0.908

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
16 Sep	12:20	CPA	Qatar	3–0	Australia	25–20	25–20	25–21			75–61	P2
16 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	1–3	China	19–25	29–27	21–25	19–25		88–102	P2
17 Sep	12:00	CPA	Qatar	2–3	China	26–28	25–21	28–26	19–25	10–15	108–115	P2
17 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	3–0	Australia	25–23	25–17	25–23			75–63	P2

Pool F[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Iran	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	225	155	1.452
2	Chinese Taipei	2	1	6	6	5	1.200	239	252	0.948
3	Pakistan	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	219	231	0.948
4	South Korea	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	203	248	0.819

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
16 Sep	09:30	CPA	Pakistan	1–3	Chinese Taipei	20–25	25–22	23–25	22–25	90–97	P2
16 Sep	15:00	CPA	Iran	3–0	South Korea	25–19	25–18	25–20		75–57	P2
17 Sep	09:30	CPA	Pakistan	3–0	South Korea	25–23	25–22	25–14		75–59	P2
17 Sep	15:15	CPA	Iran	3–0	Chinese Taipei	25–10	25–23	25–11		75–44	P2

Pool G[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Bahrain	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	229	189	1.212
2	India	2	1	6	6	3	2.000	217	191	1.136
3	Kuwait	1	2	3	3	7	0.429	214	244	0.877
4	Uzbekistan	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	211	247	0.854

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
16 Sep	12:30	FBA	India	3–0	Kuwait	25–20	25–20	25–20	75–60	P2
16 Sep	15:00	FBA	Bahrain	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–19	27–25	25–19	77–63	P2
17 Sep	10:00	FBA	India	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–19	25–13	25–22	75–54	P2
17 Sep	17:30	FBA	Bahrain	3–0	Kuwait	25–21	25–19	25–19	75–59	P2

Pool H[]

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1		3	0	9	9	1	9.000	245	202	1.213
2	Kazakhstan	2	1	6	6	4	1.500	235	217	1.083
3	Thailand	1	2	3	5	7	0.714	271	280	0.968
4	Hong Kong	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	194	246	0.789

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
16 Sep	10:00	FBA	Thailand	1–3	Kazakhstan	25–18	23–25	19–25	22–25	89–93	P2
16 Sep	17:30	FBA	Hong Kong	0–3		12–25	18–25	19–25		49–75	P2
17 Sep	12:30	FBA	Hong Kong	0–3	Kazakhstan	16–25	21–25	16–25		53–75	P2
17 Sep	15:00	FBA	Thailand	1–3		20–25	25–20	19–25	22–25	86–95	P2

Final round[]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

13th–16th places[]

13th–16th semifinals		13th place match

18 September

Kuwait	2
		19 September
Hong Kong	3
		Hong Kong	0
18 September
		Uzbekistan	3
Uzbekistan	3

Thailand	2
		15th place match

		19 September

		Kuwait	1

		Thailand	3

13th–16th semifinals[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Sep	10:00	FBA	Uzbekistan	3–2	Thailand	28–26	23–25	25–19	22–25	20–18	118–113	P2
18 Sep	13:00	FBA	Kuwait	2–3	Hong Kong	18–25	25–22	21–25	25–20	14–16	103–108	P2

15th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	12:30	FBA	Kuwait	1–3	Thailand	16–25	25–21	23–25	20–25		84–96	P2

13th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	10:00	FBA	Hong Kong	0–3	Uzbekistan	20–25	23–25	21–25			64–75	P2

9th–12th places[]

9th–12th semifinals		9th place match

18 September

Bahrain	3
		19 September
Kazakhstan	1
		Bahrain	2
18 September
		India	3
India	3

	0
		11th place match

		19 September

		Kazakhstan	3

			0

9th–12th semifinals[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Sep	15:55	FBA	Bahrain	3–1	Kazakhstan	16–25	25–23	28–26	25–22		94–96	P2
18 Sep	18:30	FBA	India	3–0		25–22	25–22	25–23			75–67	P2

11th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	15:00	FBA	Kazakhstan	3–0		25–16	25–20	25–23			75–59	P2

9th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	17:30	FBA	Bahrain	2–3	India	16–25	23–25	25–20	25–23	14–16	103–109	P2

5th–8th places[]

5th–8th semifinals		5th place match

18 September

Qatar	3
		19 September
South Korea	0
		Qatar	3
18 September
		Australia	0
Australia	3

Pakistan	0
		7th place match

		19 September

		South Korea	0

		Pakistan	3

5th–8th semifinals[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Sep	09:30	CPA	Qatar	3–0	South Korea	25–16	32–30	25–22			82–68	P2
18 Sep	12:00	CPA	Australia	3–0	Pakistan	25–16	26–24	25–23			76–63	P2

7th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	09:30	CPA	South Korea	0–3	Pakistan	23–25	15–25	26–28			64–78	P2

5th place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	12:00	CPA	Qatar	3–0	Australia	25–21	25–11	25–23			75–55	P2

Final four[]

Semifinals		Final

18 September

Japan	3
		19 September
Chinese Taipei	1
		Japan	0
18 September
		Iran	3
China	1

Iran	3
		3rd place match

		19 September

		Chinese Taipei	0

		China	3

Semifinals[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Sep	15:05	CPA	China	1–3	Iran	22–25	25–17	22–25	17–25		86–92	P2
18 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	3–1	Chinese Taipei	25–16	22–25	25–21	25–20		97–82	P2

3rd place match[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	15:00	CPA	Chinese Taipei	0–3	China	17–25	16–25	17–25			50–75	P2

Final[]

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Sep	18:00	CPA	Japan	0–3	Iran	25–27	22–25	29–31			76–83	P2

Final standing[]

Rank	Team
	Iran
	Japan
	China
4	Chinese Taipei
5	Qatar
6	Australia
7	Pakistan
8	South Korea
9	India
10	Bahrain
11	Kazakhstan
12
13	Uzbekistan
14	Hong Kong
15	Thailand
16	Kuwait

	Qualified for the 2022 World Championship as the top two best finishing teams
	Qualified for the 2022 World Championship via FIVB rankings

2021 Asian Men's Champions
Iran 4th title

14–man Roster

, Ebadipour (c), Abedini, Toukhteh, Mojarrad, Mosafer, Hazratpour, Salehi, Kazemi, Esfandiar, , Karimi, ,

Head Coach

Behrouz Ataei

Awards[]

Most Valuable Player

Saber Kazemi

Best Setter

Javad Karimi

Best Outside Spikers

Milad Ebadipour

Yūki Ishikawa

Best Middle Blockers

Aliasghar Mojarrad

Best Opposite Spiker

Kento Miyaura

Best Libero

Mohammad Reza Hazratpour

References[]

^ "AVC Sports Events Council reviews tasks completed and discusses future challenges". AVC. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
^ "AVC in Denial Over Teams' Entry Submission for 21st Asian Senior Men's Championship". Retrieved 18 July 2021.
^ "Uzbekistan gets AVC Nod to Replace COVID-stricken Sri Lanka in 21st Asian Senior Men's Championship". Asian Volleyball Confederation. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ Farzan, Zulfick (14 July 2021). "Sri Lanka defeats Uzbekistan 3–0 to enter 21st Senior Asian Volleyball Championship". News 1st. MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, MBC Networks (Pvt) Ltd. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ "Drawing of lots for 21st Asian Senior Men's and Women's Volleyball Championships Unveiled". Asian Volleyball Confederation. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

External links[]

[1] "AVC Sports Events Council reviews tasks completed and discusses future challenges". AVC. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

[2] "AVC in Denial Over Teams' Entry Submission for 21st Asian Senior Men's Championship". Retrieved 18 July 2021.

[3] "Uzbekistan gets AVC Nod to Replace COVID-stricken Sri Lanka in 21st Asian Senior Men's Championship". Asian Volleyball Confederation. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.

[4] Farzan, Zulfick (14 July 2021). "Sri Lanka defeats Uzbekistan 3–0 to enter 21st Senior Asian Volleyball Championship". News 1st. MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, MBC Networks (Pvt) Ltd. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

[avcdraw-5] "Drawing of lots for 21st Asian Senior Men's and Women's Volleyball Championships Unveiled". Asian Volleyball Confederation. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

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Host selection[]

Qualification[]

Qualified teams[]

Zonal qualification[]

Pools composition[]

Preliminary round[]

Classification round[]

Squads[]

Venues[]

Pool standing procedure[]

Preliminary round[]

Pool A[]

Pool B[]

Pool C[]

Pool D[]

Classification round[]

Pool E[]

Pool F[]

Pool G[]

Pool H[]

Final round[]

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[]

Awards[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]