2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (AVC)

The AVC qualification for the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for four places at the finals in Poland.^[1]

Draw

29 AVC national teams entered qualification. (Yemen later withdrew) The teams were distributed according to their geographical positions. Teams ranked 1–5 in FIVB World Rankings did not compete in the zonal rounds, and automatically qualified for the final round. New Zealand also qualified automatically as the only registered team from Oceania.^[2]

Berths for final round

Zone	Total	Automatic	Remaining
Central Asia	4	1	3
Eastern Asia	4	3	1
Oceania	2	1	1
Southeastern Asia	2	0	2
Western Asia	4	0	4

Sub zonal round

Western Asia 1	Western Asia 2	Western Asia 3
Iraq Jordan Lebanon Syria	Kuwait Saudi Arabia ~~Yemen~~	Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates

Zonal round

Central Asia 1	Central Asia 2	Eastern Asia
Afghanistan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan	India Maldives Pakistan Sri Lanka	Chinese Taipei Hong Kong
Southeastern Asia	Western Asia 4	Western Asia 5
Indonesia Myanmar Thailand Vietnam	1st Sub Zonal Western 1 2nd Sub Zonal Western 3 2nd Sub Zonal Western 2	1st Sub Zonal Western 2 1st Sub Zonal Western 3 2nd Sub Zonal Western 1

Final round

The sixteen remaining teams were distributed according to their position in the FIVB Senior Men's Rankings as of 23 January 2013 using the serpentine system for their distribution. (Rankings shown in brackets)

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Australia (11) Kazakhstan (48) Thailand (48) Kuwait (122)	Iran (14) Pakistan (41) Indonesia (52) Bahrain (122)	China (16) India (30) Chinese Taipei (53) Saudi Arabia (122)	Japan (19) South Korea (24) Qatar (53) New Zealand (78)

Sub zonal round

Western Asia 1

Venue: Ghazir Club Court, Beirut, Lebanon
Dates: June 7–9, 2013
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
07 Jun	18:00	Iraq	3–1	Syria	25–14	25–19	24–26	25–23		99–82	Report
07 Jun	20:00	Lebanon	3–1	Jordan	26–28	25–20	25–21	25–23		101–92	Report
08 Jun	18:00	Jordan	0–3	Iraq	22–25	20–25	18–25			60–75	Report
08 Jun	20:00	Syria	2–3	Lebanon	19–25	25–16	14–25	25–21	10–15	93–102	Report
09 Jun	18:00	Syria	3–2	Jordan	25–20	19–25	21–25	25–22	15–9	105–101	Report
09 Jun	20:00	Iraq	0–3	Lebanon	27–29	13–25	22–25			62–79	Report

Western Asia 2

Venue: Yarmouk Club Hall, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dates: June 8, 2013
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
08 Jun	19:00	Kuwait	3–0	Saudi Arabia	25–20	25–23	25–23			75–66	Report

Western Asia 3

Venue: Al-Arabi Indoor Hall, Doha, Qatar
Dates: June 5–7, 2013
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
05 Jun	19:15	Qatar	3–0	United Arab Emirates	25–15	25–18	25–18			75–51	Report
06 Jun	19:15	Bahrain	3–0	United Arab Emirates	25–19	25–11	25–20			75–50	Report
07 Jun	19:15	Qatar	2–3	Bahrain	25–18	25–23	14–25	18–25	9–15	91–106

Zonal round

Central Asia 1

Venue: Ice Palace Astana, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Dates: June 14–16, 2013
All times are Almaty Time (UTC+06:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
14 Jun	17:00	Kazakhstan	3–0	Uzbekistan	25–21	25–15	25–18	75–54	Report
15 Jun	17:00	Afghanistan	0–3	Uzbekistan	17–25	19–25	22–25	58–75	Report
16 Jun	17:00	Kazakhstan	3–0	Afghanistan	25–21	25–21	25–11	75–53	Report

Central Asia 2

Venue: Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Dates: July 3–5, 2013
All times are Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
03 Jul	15:30	Sri Lanka	3–0	Maldives	25–20	25–12	25–23			75–55	Report
03 Jul	17:30	India	3–0	Pakistan	25–21	25–20	25–21			75–62	Report
04 Jul	15:00	Pakistan	3–2	Sri Lanka	25–14	22–25	17–25	25–17	15–12	104–93	Report
04 Jul	17:00	India	3–0	Maldives	25–17	25–14	25–12			75–43	Report
05 Jul	15:00	Pakistan	3–0	Maldives	25–13	25–18	25–20			75–51	Report
05 Jul	17:00	Sri Lanka	0–3	India	20–25	26–28	19–25			65–78	Report

Eastern Asia

Venue: Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan
Dates: June 29, 2013
All times are Chungyuan Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jun	17:00	Hong Kong	0–3	Chinese Taipei	14–25	21–25	18–25			53–75	Report

Southeastern Asia

Venue: Nakhon Pathom Sports Center Gymnasium, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Dates: June 26–28, 2013
All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Jun	17:00	Thailand	3–1	Vietnam	28–30	25–23	25–21	25–17		103–91	Report
26 Jun	19:00	Myanmar	2–3	Indonesia	21–25	25–21	25–19	21–25	11–15	103–105	Report
27 Jun	15:00	Vietnam	0–3	Indonesia	18–25	16–25	19–25			53–75	Report
27 Jun	17:00	Thailand	3–0	Myanmar	25–16	25–15	25–19			75–50	Report
28 Jun	15:00	Myanmar	3–2	Vietnam	17–25	25–14	26–24	20–25	15–9	103–97	Report
28 Jun	17:00	Indonesia	0–3	Thailand	14–25	35–37	21–25			70–87	Report

Western Asia 4

Venue: Al-Shabab Indoor Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dates: July 5–7, 2013
All times are United Arab Emirates Standard Time (UTC+04:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
05 Jul	19:30	Lebanon	2–3	Saudi Arabia	25–14	22–25	16–25	25–22	12–15	100–101	Report
06 Jul	19:30	Qatar	3–0	Lebanon	25–20	25–22	25–15			75–57	Report
07 Jul	19:30	Saudi Arabia	1–3	Qatar	19–25	25–21	17–25	16–25		77–96	Report

Western Asia 5

Venue: Isa Town Complex, Manama, Bahrain
Dates: July 4–6, 2013
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
04 Jul	19:30	Kuwait	3–2	Iraq	25–21	22–25	25–14	24–26	15–11	111–97	Report
05 Jul	19:30	Bahrain	3–0	Iraq	25–21	25–17	25–20			75–58	Report
06 Jul	19:30	Bahrain	3–0	Kuwait	25–20	25–22	25–22			75–64	Report

Final round

Pool A

Venue: AIS Arena, Canberra, Australia
Dates: September 6–8, 2013
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
06 Sep	16:30	Thailand	0–3	Kazakhstan	17–25	15–25	22–25		54–75	Result
06 Sep	19:00	Australia	3–0	Kuwait	25–12	25–16	25–18		75–46	Result
07 Sep	16:30	Thailand	3–1	Kuwait	25–27	25–14	25–18	25–14	100–73	Result
07 Sep	19:00	Australia	3–1	Kazakhstan	17–25	25–23	25–20	25–17	92–85	Result
08 Sep	13:00	Kazakhstan	3–0	Kuwait	25–13	25–18	25–20		75–51	Result
08 Sep	15:30	Australia	3–0	Thailand	25–23	25–13	25–23		75–59	Result

Pool B

Venue: Azadi Volleyball Hall, Tehran, Iran
Dates: September 11–13, 2013
All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
11 Sep	15:00	Indonesia	0–3	Bahrain	16–25	20–25	21–25	57–75	Report
11 Sep	17:00	Iran	3–0	Pakistan	25–15	25–19	25–13	75–47	Report
12 Sep	15:00	Pakistan	0–3	Bahrain	22–25	23–25	22–25	67–75	Report
12 Sep	17:00	Iran	3–0	Indonesia	25–12	25–20	25–11	75–43	Report
13 Sep	15:00	Pakistan	0–3	Indonesia	15–25	23–25	19–25	57–75	Report
13 Sep	17:00	Iran	3–0	Bahrain	25–16	25–17	25–14	75–47	Report

Pool C

Venue: Chenzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Chenzhou, China
Dates: September 20–22, 2013
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Sep	16:00	India	3–0	Saudi Arabia	25–20	25–21	25–19			75–60	Report
20 Sep	19:30	Chinese Taipei	0–3	China	20–25	12–25	21–25			53–75	Report
21 Sep	16:00	India	3–1	Chinese Taipei	25–19	21–25	25–18	26–24		97–86	Report
21 Sep	19:30	China	3–0	Saudi Arabia	28–26	25–20	27–25			80–71	Report
22 Sep	16:00	Saudi Arabia	2–3	Chinese Taipei	25–23	25–22	17–25	20–25	11–15	98–110	Report
22 Sep	19:30	China	3–0	India	25–17	25–18	25–17			75–52	Report

Pool D

Venue: Park Arena, Komaki, Japan
Dates: September 5–8, 2013
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
05 Sep	17:00	Japan	3–0	Qatar	25–18	25–22	25–18	75–58	Result
06 Sep	13:30	South Korea	3–0	New Zealand	25–16	25–9	25–11	75–36	Result
07 Sep	11:30	Qatar	0–3	South Korea	19–25	21–25	24–26	64–76	Result
07 Sep	14:00	Japan	3–0	New Zealand	25–14	25–20	25–10	75–44	Result
08 Sep	16:30	New Zealand	0–3	Qatar	22–25	22–25	21–25	65–75	Result
08 Sep	19:10	Japan	0–3	South Korea	20–25	20–25	13–25	53–75	Result

References

^ "2014 World Championships – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Playoff Round Tournaments" (PDF). FIVB. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
^ "Long and hard journey for Asian teams to qualify for 2014 FIVB World Championships". AVC. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

[1] "2014 World Championships – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Playoff Round Tournaments" (PDF). FIVB. Retrieved 26 October 2012.

[2] "Long and hard journey for Asian teams to qualify for 2014 FIVB World Championships". AVC. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

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