The 2017 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the 18th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Ninh Bình and Nam Định, Vietnam from 28 June to 6 July 2017.
Pools composition Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2016 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2016 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 February 2017. But, United Arab Emirates later withdrew. Final standing of the 2016 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 7th.
Pool APool BPool CPool D Vietnam (Hosts) Iran (1) Qatar (2) Japan (3) Iraq (10) Chinese Taipei (6) Kazakhstan (5) China (4) Sri Lanka (–) United Arab Emirates (12) Hong Kong (14) Maldives (–) Australia (–) Thailand (11)
Venues Ninh Bình Gymnasium, Ninh Bình, Vietnam – Preliminary round, Pool E, F, Quarterfinals and Final four Nam Định Gymnasium, Nam Định, Vietnam – Preliminary round, Pool E, G, 5th-8th places and 9th–12th places
Pool standing procedure Number 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 Vietnam Standard Time (UTC+07:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Classification round All times are Vietnam Standard Time (UTC+07:00). 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
Final round All times are Vietnam Standard Time (UTC+07:00).
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
RankTeam Sarmayeh Bank Tehran Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza Al Arabi4 Altay5 Al-Bahri SC6 Beijing BAIC Motor7 Taichung Bank8 Vietnam9 Air Force10 Canberra Heat11 Sri Lanka12 Maldives13 Yan Chai Qualified for the 2018 Club World Championship
14–man RosterMahmoudi, Ebadipour, Ghaemi, Mousavi, G. Karkhaneh, Zarif, Gholami, Davoudi, Mahdavi (c), Shafiei, Żygadło, Jalali, Yousefi, HeidarishahiHead coachM. Karkhaneh
Awards
Most Valuable Player Shahram Mahmoudi (Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) Best Setter Łukasz Żygadło (Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) Best Outside Spikers Shuzo Yamada (Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza) Milad Ebadipour (Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) Best Middle Blockers Mohammad Mousavi (Sarmayeh Bank Tehran) Damir Akimov (Altay) Best Opposite Spiker György Grozer (Al Arabi) Best Libero Koichiro Koga (Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza)
References
External links Official website Regulations Squads