Asian Volleyball Confederation

The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental governing bodies in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey, as well as the West Asian countries of Armenia, Cyprus, and Israel. The AVC consists of 65 national association members.

The AVC consists of the national volleyball federations of Asia and Oceania, and club competitions including the Asian Championships, Cup, and Champions League, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions.

acted as the first president. The current president is Ramon Suzara, a Philippine National Volleyball Federation president, who was elected as AVC's ninth president at the 25th AVC General Assembly in Bangkok in August 2024.

History After William G. Morgan, the physical education director of the YMCA in Massachusetts, United States, invented the sport of volleyball in 1895, ten years later, in the early 1900s, the YMCA began spreading the sport to Asian countries such as Qing dynasty, Empire of Japan, the Philippine Islands, and British Raj.

Later, in 1913, volleyball was included in the Far Eastern Games held in Manila, Philippine Islands, which is considered the first international volleyball competition in the world. AVC was established in 1952, four years after the founding of the FIVB, following an initiative by Masaichi Nishikawa, then President of the Japan Volleyball Association.

Asia has become one of the most important continents in the world of volleyball, as it has the largest number of member federations and enjoys widespread popularity of the sport. The continent has also hosted many major international volleyball events — most notably, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which marked the debut of volleyball in the Olympic Games. In that historic event, the Japanese women's team won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in volleyball.

In September 2025, the AVC House was inaugurated in Bangkok.

Presidents

No.PresidentNationalityTerm 1 1952–1976 2Nemesio Yabut 1976–1979 3 1979–1985 4Yasutaka Matsudaira 1985–1996 5Yuan Weimin 1997–2001 6 2001–2008 7Saleh Ahmad Bin Nasser 2008–2020 8Rita Subowo 2020–2024 9Ramon Suzara 2024–present

Board of administration Designation NameNationalityNote President Ramon Suzara FIVB executive vice-president Senior vice-president Craig Carracher FIVB board of administration member Executive vice-president Mohamed Latheef Zonal executive vice-president Mohamed Latheef CAVA president Yuan Lei EAVA president, FIVB board of administration member Hugh Graham OZVA president, FIVB executive vice-president Heyzer Harsono SAVA president Ali Ghanim Al-Kuwari Female executive member Fong Sok Van Alice Oliver Hila Asanuma FIVB executive vice-president Secretary general Hugh Graham Treasurer Marina Tsui Executive director Shanrit Wongprasert AVC lifetime honorary vice-president Seyed Milad Taghavi Shunichi Kawai Princess Ayah bint Faisal FIVB board of administration member Kylychbek Sarbaghyshev Terry Sasser Jitendra Bahadur Chand Ibrahim bin Abdulla Al-muqbali Huang Kuo Kuang Thiti Pluckchaoom FIVB board of administration member Trần Đức Phấn

Committees CommitteePresidentNationality Sports events council Kylychbek Sarbaghyshev Referees committee Dean Edward Turner Oam Coaches committee Feng Kun Development and marketing committee Seong Keehak Finance committee Terry Sasser Medical committee Oh Jae-Keun Beach volleyball committee Craig Carracher

National federations CAVA (Central Asia and South Asia)

Code Federation National teams Founded FIVBaffiliation AVCaffiliation IOCmember AFG BAN BHU 1973 IND 1951 IRI 1945 1959 KAZ KGZ MDV NEP PAK 1955 SRI 1951 TJK TKM UZB

EAVA (East Asia)

Code Federation National teams Founded FIVBaffiliation AVCaffiliation IOCmember CHN 1953 1954 TPE 1954 HKG JPN 1927 1951 1952 MAC MGL PRK KOR 1946 1959

OZVA (Oceania)

Code Federation National teams Founded FIVBaffiliation AVCaffiliation IOCmember ASA AUS 1963 COK FIJ PYF GUM KIR MSH FSM NZL NIU NMI PAU PNG SAM SOL TGA TUV VAN

SAVA (Southeast Asia)

Code Federation National teams Founded FIVBaffiliation AVCaffiliation IOCmember BRU CAM INA 1955 LAO MAS MYA PHI 2021 2021 2021 SIN THA 1959 TLS VIE 1961 1991 1991

WAVA (West Asia)

Code Federation National teams Founded FIVBaffiliation AVCaffiliation IOCmember BRN 1976 1976 IRQ 1959 1959 JOR 1961 1971 KUW LBN 1949 1949 OMA PLE QAT KSA SYR UAE YEM 1976 1976

FIVB World Rankings

Top-ranked men's national teams

Top-ranked women's national teams

Competitions Volleyball

National teams: Men AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Championship AVC Men's Volleyball Cup AVC Men's U20 Volleyball Championship AVC Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship AVC Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship Women AVC Women's Volleyball Continental Championship AVC Women's Volleyball Cup AVC Women's U20 Volleyball Championship AVC Girls' U18 Volleyball Championship AVC Girls' U16 Volleyball Championship

Defunct: Men AVC Cup for Men AVC Men's Olympic Volleyball Qualification AVC Men's Volleyball World Championship Qualification Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship Women AVC Cup for Women AVC Women's Olympic Volleyball Qualification AVC Women's Volleyball World Championship Qualification Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship

Clubs: Men AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League Women AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League

Beach volleyball

National teams: AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Championships AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Cup AVC U21 Beach Volleyball Championships AVC U19 Beach Volleyball Championships

Professional tours: AVC Beach Volleyball Tour

Title holders Volleyball ChampionshipCupU–20U–18U–16Champions League Men (2026) (2026) (2024) (2026) (2025) Jakarta Bhayangkara Presisi(2026) Women (2026) (2026) (2024) (2026) (2025) NEC Red Rockets(2026)

Beach volleyball ChampionshipU–21U–19 MenM. Nicolaidis / I. Carracher (2026)V. Mastikhin / K. Ryukhov (2025)K.H. Akbarzadeh / A.A. Ghalehnovi (2024) WomenS. Fejes / T. Clancy (2026)K. Y. Jiang / M. L. Zhou (2025)J. Rayner / C. Zajer (2024)

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