The 2015 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the eighteenth edition of the Asian Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Chinese Volleyball Association (CVA). The tournament was held in Tianjin, China from 20 to 28 May 2015.

Qualification If there were fewer than 16 teams applied for participation, all teams compete in the tournament. If there were more than 16 teams applied for participation, participated teams would be determined by: – The host nation – Top 10 ranked teams from the previous edition – Representatives from each of the five Asian Volleyball Confederation Zonal Associations

Qualified teams Central Asia Eastern Asia Oceania Southeastern Asia Western Asia

Pools composition The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The host country and the top 7 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system. The 8 remaining teams were drawn on 11 February 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked 4th) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (-). Japan played in the Asian Championship with their U-23 national team.

Pool APool BPool CPool D (Host) (1) (2) (3) (8) (7) (6) (5) (–) * (13) (14) (9) (11) (15) (–) * (12) * Withdrew

Venues Tianjin, ChinaTianjin Olympic Center StadiumTianjin Polytechnic University GymnasiumCapacity: 7,000Capacity: "N/A"N/A

Squads

Pool standing procedure Numbers 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 China standard time (UTC+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round All times are China standard time (UTC+08:00). 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

Classification round All times are China standard time (UTC+08:00).

Classification 9th–12th

Semifinals

11th place

9th place

Final round All times are China standard time (UTC+08:00).

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

3rd place

Final

Final standing

RankTeam 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Awards

Most valuable player Zhu Ting Best setter Shen Jingsi Best outside spikers Zhu Ting Kim Yeon-koung Best middle blocker Pleumjit Thinkaow Best opposite spiker Zeng Chunlei Best libero Nam Jie-youn

See also 2015 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

References

External links Official Website Regulations