The 2024 Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship was the 15th edition of the Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament took place in Manama, Bahrain from 27 July to 4 August.

This tournament served as the qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Players must be born on or after January 1, 2007. Asia U18 players who have already played once in the FIVB U19 Championship cannot play in AVC U18 Championship as it is a qualification event for the following year of FIVB U19 event. In principle, the players can participate in Asian U18 and FIVB U19 only once.

China won their first title of the tournament after defeating Iran in a tiebreaker match (3–2) in the final. Pakistan defeated Japan in the third place match. Ding Haocheng of China named the MVP of the tournament.

Host selection AVC awarded Bahrain the hosting rights of the 15th edition of Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship, after they hosted the 2024 AVC Men's Challenge Cup.

Qualification The 16 AVC member associations submitted their U19 men's national team to the 2024 Asian U19 Championship. The 16 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 teams), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (4 teams).

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the tournament. Means of qualificationBerthsQualifiedHost country1Central Asian teams4East Asian teams5Oceanian teams1Southeast Asian teams2West Asian teams3Total 16

Pools composition The overview of pools was released on 12 March 2024.

Pool APool BPool CPool D (Hosts) (1) (2) (3) (7) (6) (5) (4) (8)

Format In preliminary round, all teams are divided into four pools (A, B, C, & D) with four teams each. The teams battled in a single round-robin with the top two teams in each pool qualified to 1st–8th classification while bottom two teams qualified to 9th–16th classification.

In classification round, all teams in each pools (E, F, G, & H) battle again in a single round-robin where top two teams in pools E and F qualify to semifinals and the two bottom teams qualify to 5th–8th places, while the top two teams in pools G and H qualify to 9th–12th places and 13th–16th places, respectively. Teams who faced each other in the preliminary will not play again rather their win-loss record will carry over.

In final round, the teams battle in knockout format.

Venues +Preliminary, Classification, 1st–8th placesPreliminary, Classification, 9th–16th placesManama, BahrainIsa Sport City HallCourt 1Court 2Capacity: 5,000Capacity: 5,000

Pool standing procedure Number of victories Match points Sets 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 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. Match forfeited: 0 point (25–0;25-0;25-0)

Preliminary round All times are Bahrain Time (UTC+03:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round All times are Bahrain Time (UTC+03:00). 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 Bahrain Time (UTC+03:00).

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

5th–8th semifinals

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam45678910111213141516 Qualified for the 2025 U19 World Championship

12–man rosterDing Haocheng (c), Hu Hanlin, Yu Xiang, Gong Minghao, Wang Jinkebo, Zhao Nan, Zhang Hao, Niu Ge, Wang Kai, Gong Haoqian, Li Xuyang, Luo ZhenboHead coachHou Chundi

Awards

Most valuable player

Best setter

Best outside spikers

Best middle blockers

Best opposite spiker

Best libero

Qualified teams for FIVB U19 World Championship The following teams from AVC qualified for the 2025 FIVB Men's U19 World Championship. + Team Qualified on Previous appearances in the FIVB U19 World Championship1 0 (None) 12 (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) 7 (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) 14 (1989, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year.

See also 2024 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship 2024 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship

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Squads