The 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twentieth staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). The tournament was held in Tehran, Iran from 13 to 21 September 2019.

Top eight teams which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics qualified for the 2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.

Qualification Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by

1 team for the host country 10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams Means of qualificationDateVenueVacanciesQualifiedHost country12017 Asian Championship24 July–1 August 2017 Gresik10 8Eastern Asia Representatives1Central Asia RepresentativesCancelled1+2Southeast Asian Representative1Western Asia Qualifier17–21 July 2019 Muscat1+1Oceania Representative1 0Total16

Iran qualified as hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked nation, Thailand. Vietnam originally qualified, but declined to enter. Turkmenistan was to play India and Sri Lanka in the Central Asia qualification tournament. However, Turkmenistan was barred from playing due to violating competition regulations prior to tournament. Both India and Sri Lanka qualified. Pakistan were granted entry and was not among the three teams originally set to participate in the cancelled Central Asia qualifiers.

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 2017 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2017 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019. Final standings of the 2017 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 5th.

Seeded TeamsPool APool BPool CPool D (Hosts) (8) (1) (7) (2) (6) (3) (4)Unseeded Teams (9) (11)

(12) (14)

(16)

Draw Pool APool BPool CPool D

Classification round Final eight9th–16th placesPool EPool FPool GPool Hwidth=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% width=3%

Squads

Venues Preliminary, Classification roundand Final eightPreliminary, Classification round,13th–16th places and 9th–12th placesTehran, IranAzadi Indoor StadiumAzadi Volleyball HallCapacity: 12,000Capacity: 3,000

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 Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30). 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 Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30).

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam45678910111213141516 Qualified for the 2020 Asian Olympic Qualifier (Pakistan later withdrew and replaced by Kazakhstan) Already qualified as hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics

14–man rosterMilad Ebadipour, Saeid Marouf (c), Farhad Ghaemi, Mohammad Mousavi (volleyball), Purya Fayazi, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Masoud Gholami, Amir Ghafour, Ali Asghar Mojarrad, Ali Shafiei, Mohammad Reza Moazzen, Porya Yali, Amir Hossein Esfandiar, Javad KarimiHead coachIgor Kolaković

Awards

Most valuable player Thomas Edgar Best setter Saeid Marouf Best outside spikers Yūki Ishikawa Samuel Walker Best middle blockers Shin Yung-suk Mohammad Mousavi Best opposite spiker Amir Ghafour Best libero Tomohiro Yamamoto

References

External links Official website Regulations Squads