The 2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship was the 14th edition of the Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international women's volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), in 2022 with the Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA), for the under–18 women's national teams of Asia.
The tournament was held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, from 6 to 13 June 2022. The tournament was supposed to be hosted by Uzbekistan on the same dates, but due to unforeseen reasons Nakhon Pathom replaced Tashkent as the host city for the eight-day Championship. That year, the previously U17 tournament was adjusted to become an U18 championship as approved by the AVC Board of Administration.
Like the previous editions, the tournament acted as the AVC qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship. The top four teams qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship as the AVC's representatives.
A total of eleven teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate. It was originally a U-17 competition for players born on or after 2006, but as the change to a U-18 tournament proceeded, the age restriction was changed to 2005.
Qualified teams Following AVC regulations, the maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events were selected according to the following: 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 associations CountryZoneQualified asQualified onPrevious appearancesPrevious best performanceTotalFirstLastEAZVA27 May 20181119972018Champions (1997, 2007, 2008, 2010,2012, 2014, 2017, 2018)EAZVA2018 Asian Championship runners-up27 May 20181219972018Champions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005)SEAZVA2018 Asian Championship 3rd place and host country27 May 20181219972018Runners-up (2014)EAZVA2018 Asian Championship 4th place27 May 20181219972018Runners-up (1997, 2005, 2007)EAZVA2018 Asian Championship 5th place27 May 201812199720183rd place (1999, 2008, 2010)CAZVA2018 Asian Championship 6th place27 May 20186200320186th place (2003, 2010, 2014, 2018)CAZVA2018 Asian Championship 7th place27 May 20186200820187th place (2018)CAZVA2018 Asian Championship 8th place27 May 20189200120185th place (2003)OZVA2018 Asian Championship 9th place27 May 201811199920186th place (1999)OZVA2018 Asian Championship 10th place27 May 20184201020188th place (2014, 2017)CAZVAAutomatically qualified as CAZVA wild card15 January 202212017201710th place (2017)SEAZVAAutomatically qualified as SEAZVA wild card15 January 20226199720147th place (2014)
Format and Pools composition According to the unveiled competition schedule, all participating teams would be split into Pool A and Pool B. Teams would compete in pool round-robin preliminaries, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the cross semifinals. Teams finishing 3rd and 4th in each pool would next compete in the classification round for the 5th–8th places, while those finishing 5th and 6th in each pool will fight for the 9th, 10th and 11th places.
Pool APool B (Host)
Venues The tournament was hosted at the Nakhon Pathom Sports Center Gymnasium in Mueang Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Pathom.
All rounds Nakhon Pathom, ThailandNakhon Pathom Sports Center GymnasiumCapacity: 4,000
Pool standing procedure Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Preliminary round All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)
Pool A
Pool B
Final round All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)
9th–11th Classification round
9th–11th semifinals
9th place match
5th–8th Classification round
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final Four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeam4567891011 Qualified for the 2023 Girls' U19 World Championship
12–woman rosterKokomi Kawamata, Miuka Watanabe, Ciara Mie Athina Hirano, Riri Kasai (c), Sae Omori, Cindy Chisom Ndigwe, Miku Akimoto, Yuzuki Baba, Mio Kitagawa, Kokoro Hidaka, Sanae Yoshida, Rin NishikawaHead coachDaichi Saegusa
Awards
Most valuable player Omori Sae Best setter Yoshida Sanae Best outside spikers Omori Sae Chen Xinyue Best middle blockers Shan Linqian Kim Sebeen Best opposite spiker Wang Yindi Best libero Nishikawa Rin
See also 2022 Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship
References
External links Asian Volleyball Confederation