2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

バレーボールアジア選手権 日本 2021
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Tournament details
Host nation	Japan
City	Chiba and Funabashi
Dates	12–19 September
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Champions	Iran (4th title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	China
Fourth place	Chinese Taipei
Tournament awards
MVP	Saber Kazemi
Best Setter	Javad Karimi
Best OH	Milad Ebadipour Yūki Ishikawa
Best MB	Aliasghar Mojarad Li Yongzhen
Best OPP	Kento Miyaura
Best Libero	Mohammad Reza Hazratpour
Tournament statistics
Matches played	56
Attendance	16,615 (297 per match)
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2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
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The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twenty-first staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Japan Volleyball Association (JVA). The tournament was held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from 12 to 19 September 2021.

The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Host selection

On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship:^[1]

•  Japan

Qualification

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

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

Qualified teams

Event(s)		Dates	Location	Berths	Qualifier(s)
Host nation		11 February 2020	N/A	1	Japan
2019 Asian Championship		13 – 21 September 2019	Tehran	9A	Iran  Australia  Japan  South Korea  Chinese Taipei  China  Pakistan  India  Qatar  Kazakhstan
Direct zonal wildcards	East Asia	No later than 2 February 2021	N/A	1	Hong Kong
	Southeast Asia			1B	Thailand
	West Asia			3B	Bahrain  Saudi Arabia  Kuwait
2021 Central Asian Qualifier		14 July 2021	Colombo	1C	Sri Lanka  Uzbekistan
Total				16

^A Japan qualified as the hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to zonal entrants.

^B Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam also submitted their entry for their participation in the tournament. However they could not be accommodated due to all 16 teams already confirmed at the time; This include the confirmation of the participation of 3 Western Asian teams and the conclusion of the Central Asia qualifier. Thailand was granted the sole Southeast Asian berth, the top ranked Southeast Asian team in the 2019 edition, which has earlier confirmed their participation. No qualification tournament was held.^[2]

^C Sri Lanka originally qualified but withdrew due to all of its players and staff testing positive for COVID-19. As a result, Uzbekistan replaced Sri Lanka in August 2021.^[3]

Zonal qualification

Only the Central Asian qualification tournament was held which was contested by Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.^[4]

• Time is Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
14 Jul	14:30	Sri Lanka	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–23	25–13	25–22			75–58	Report

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 2019 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2019 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 16 July 2021.^[5] Final standings of the 2019 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 3rd.

Pots

•  Sri Lanka withdrew after the draw due to COVID-19 outbreak among the team, and was replaced by  Uzbekistan.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Japan (Hosts)	Iran (1)	Australia (2)	South Korea (4)
India (8)	Pakistan (7)	China (6)	Chinese Taipei (5)
Qatar	Thailand	Sri Lanka  Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan
Bahrain	Hong Kong	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia

Classification round

Final eight				9th–16th places
Pool E		Pool F		Pool G		Pool H
1A	Japan (Hosts)	1B	Iran	3A	Bahrain	3B	Thailand
1C	Australia	1D	Chinese Taipei	3C	Kuwait	3D	Saudi Arabia
2A	Qatar	2B	Pakistan	4A	India	4B	Hong Kong
2C	China	2D	South Korea	4C	Uzbekistan	4D	Kazakhstan

Squads

Venues

Preliminary round, Pool E, F, 5th–8th places and Final four	Preliminary round, Pool G, H, 13th–16th places and 9th–12th places
Chiba, Japan	Funabashi, Japan
Chiba Port Arena	Funabashi Arena
Capacity: 7,512	Capacity: 4,368

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. 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 Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Pool A