The 2023 Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of Uzbekistan (UZBV). The tournament was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 22 to 29 July 2023.

This tournament served as a qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Players must be born on or after January 1, 2007.

Pools composition The overview of pools was released on 16 March 2023.

Pool APool BPool CPool D (H)***

Format All teams are divided into 4 pools. Robin round to classify ranking. Top 2 teams advance to top 8, split to Pool E (for teams from Pools A and C) and Pool F (for teams from Pools B and D). After that, teams will play cross matches to determine the best two teams from Pools E and F to qualify for the 1-4 semifinals, with teams finishing third and fourth places in each pool relegated to Classification Round for ranking 5–8.

The lower-ranked teams finishing third in Pools A, C and D and fourth in Pool C will next play a single round-robin competition. Teams which have already met in the pool round-robin preliminaries will not play again, but their results in the pool play will be taken into consideration for ranking 9–12.

Venue Assigned matchesAssigned matchesTashkent, UzbekistanYunusobodJARCapacity: unknown

Pool standing procedure Number of Victories Match points Set quotient Points quotient If the tie continues as per the point quotient between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points quotient 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 Uzbekistan time (UTC+05:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round All times are Uzbekistan time (UTC+05:00). 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

Final round All times are Uzbekistan time (UTC+05:00).

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam456789101112 Qualified for the 2024 World Boys Championship

Awards

Most valuable player

Best setter

Best outside hitters

Best middle blockers

Best opposite spiker

Best libero

See also 2023 Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

References

External links

Team Roster