Men's Asian Volleyball Championship

Men's Asian Volleyball Championship

Current season, competition or edition: 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
Sport	Volleyball
Founded	1975
First season	1975
No. of teams	16 (Finals)
Continent	Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Most recent champion(s)	Japan (9th title)
Most titles	Japan (9 titles)
TV partner(s)	SMMTV
Official website	Asian Volleyball Confederation

The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. The initial gap between championships was four years, but since 1987 they have been awarded every two years. The current champion is Japan, which won its ninth title at the 2017 tournament.

The 19 Asian Championship tournaments have been won by five different national teams. Japan have won nine times. The other Asian Championship winners are South Korea, with four titles; China with three titles; Iran with two titles; and Australia, with one title.

The 2017 Asian Championship took place in Gresik, Indonesia. The next Asian Championship will be hosted by Australia in 2019.

Results summary

Year	Host		Final				Third place match				Teams
			Champions	Score	Runners-up		3rd place	Score	4th place
1975 Details	Melbourne		Japan	Round-robin	South Korea		China	Round-robin	Australia		7
1979 Details	Manama		China	Round-robin	South Korea		Japan	Round-robin	Australia		15
1983 Details	Tokyo		Japan	Round-robin	China		South Korea	Round-robin	Chinese Taipei		11
1987 Details	Kuwait City		Japan	3–0	China		South Korea	3–0	Kuwait		17
1989 Details	Seoul		South Korea	3–0	Japan		China	3–2	Pakistan		19
1991 Details	Perth		Japan	Round-robin	South Korea		China	Round-robin	Australia		15
1993 Details	Nakhon Ratchasima		South Korea	3–0	Kazakhstan		Japan	3–2	China		16
1995 Details	Seoul		Japan	Round-robin	China		South Korea	Round-robin	Iran		14
1997 Details	Doha		China	Round-robin	Japan		Australia	Round-robin	Chinese Taipei		17
1999 Details	Tehran		China	Round-robin	Australia		South Korea	Round-robin	Japan		14
2001 Details	Changwon		South Korea	3–1	Australia		Japan	3–1	China		12
2003 Details	Tianjin		South Korea	Round-robin	China		Iran	Round-robin	Australia		15
2005 Details	Suphan Buri		Japan	3–0	China		South Korea	3–1	India		18
2007 Details	Jakarta		Australia	Round-robin	Japan		South Korea	Round-robin	China		17
2009 Details	Manila		Japan	3–1	Iran		South Korea	3–1	China		18
2011 Details	Tehran		Iran	3–1	China		South Korea	3–1	Australia		16
2013 Details	Dubai		Iran	3–0	South Korea		China	3–1	Japan		21
2015 Details	Tehran		Japan	3–1	Iran		China	3–2	Qatar		16
2017 Details	Gresik		Japan	3–1	Kazakhstan		South Korea	3–0	Indonesia		16
2019 Details	TBA

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Japan	9 (1975, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2005, 2009, 2015, 2017)	3 (1989, 1997, 2007)	3 (1979, 1993, 2001)	2 (1999, 2013)
South Korea	4 (1989, 1993, 2001, 2003)	4 (1975, 1979, 1991, 2013)	9 (1983, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017)
China	3 (1979, 1997, 1999)	6 (1983, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2011)	5 (1975, 1989, 1991, 2013, 2015)	4 (1993, 2001, 2007, 2009)
Iran	2 (2011, 2013)	2 (2009, 2015)	1 (2003)	1 (1995)
Australia	1 (2007)	2 (1999, 2001)	1 (1997)	5 (1975, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2011)
Kazakhstan		2 (1993, 2017)
Chinese Taipei				2 (1983, 1997)
Kuwait				1 (1987)
Pakistan				1 (1989)
India				1 (2005)
Qatar				1 (2015)
Indonesia				1 (2017)

Champions by region

Federation (Region)	Champion(s)	Number
EAZVA (East Asia)	Japan (9), South Korea (4), China (3)	16 titles
CAZVA (Central Asia)	Iran (2)	2 titles
OZVA (Oceania)	Australia (1)	1 title

Hosts

Times Hosted	Nations	Year(s)
3	Australia	1975, 1991, 2019
	South Korea	1989, 1995, 2001
	Iran	1999, 2011, 2015
2	Thailand	1993, 2005
	Indonesia	2007, 2017
1	Bahrain	1979
	Japan	1983
	Kuwait	1987
	Qatar	1997
	China	2003
	Philippines	2009
	United Arab Emirates	2013

Medal summary

1	Japan	9	3	3	15
2	South Korea	4	4	9	17
3	China	3	6	5	14
4	Iran	2	2	1	5
5	Australia	1	2	1	4
6	Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2
Total		19	19	19	57

Participating nations

Nation	1975	1979	1983	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	Years
Afghanistan																15th	20th			2
Australia	4th	4th	6th	11th	10th	4th	6th	5th	3rd	2nd	2nd	4th	8th	1st	7th	4th	5th	5th	8th	19
Bahrain		14th		8th	16th				10th	10th		13th	10th				12th	12th		9
Bangladesh					17th		16th													2
China	3rd	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd	4th	2nd	1st	1st	4th	2nd	2nd	4th	4th	2nd	3rd	3rd	6th	19
Chinese Taipei			4th	6th	9th	5th	10th	6th	4th	7th	6th	9th	13th	8th	8th	13th	9th	6th	7th	17
Hong Kong			10th		14th						12th		18th		17th				16th	6
India		5th	5th	5th	6th	10th	9th		9th	9th	7th	5th	4th	9th	9th	6th	7th	11th		16
Indonesia	6th		9th			6th				6th			11th	7th	6th	11th			4th	9
Iran		6th		10th	8th	7th	5th	4th	6th	5th	5th	3rd	6th	5th	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	5th	17
Iraq		8th		9th	7th												13th		13th	5
Japan	1st	3rd	1st	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	1st	2nd	4th	3rd	6th	1st	2nd	1st	5th	4th	1st	1st	19
Jordan				17th																1
Kazakhstan							2nd	14th		11th	9th	8th		10th	5th	9th	10th	9th	2nd	11
Kuwait		7th	7th	4th	5th		14th	13th		14th				17th			17th	14th		10
Lebanon		13th													11th		8th			3
Macau									13th											1
Maldives														16th	18th					2
Myanmar															10th		18th			2
Nepal			11th		18th															2
New Zealand	7th	11th	8th	12th	12th	12th	11th	12th				14th	15th							10
North Korea						11th														1
Oman																	19th	15th		2
Pakistan				7th	4th	8th	8th	8th	7th	8th		7th	9th	13th		7th		10th	12th	13
Philippines	5th						15th	11th	14th				14th		15th					6
Qatar					19th		12th	10th	8th	13th	11th	11th	7th	11th	14th	12th	11th	4th	9th	14
Samoa						15th														1
Saudi Arabia		9th		13th		13th			12th		8th	12th		12th			21st		15th	9
Singapore		12th																		1
South Korea	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	5th	3rd	1st	1st	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd	7th	3rd	19
Sri Lanka					13th		13th	9th	15th	12th				14th	16th	8th	15th	13th	14th	11
Syria		10th																		1
Thailand				14th	15th	9th	7th	7th	11th			10th	5th	6th	13th	10th	6th	8th	11th	14
Turkmenistan																14th		16th		2
United Arab Emirates				15th	11th	14th			17th		10th	15th	17th				14th			8
Uzbekistan									16th				16th			16th	16th			4
Vietnam													12th	15th	12th				10th	4
Yemen		15th		16th																2
Total	7	15	11	17	19	15	16	14	17	14	12	15	18	17	18	16	21	16	16

Debut of teams

Year	Debutants	Total
1975	Australia	7
	China
	Indonesia
	Japan
	New Zealand
	Philippines
	South Korea
1979	Bahrain	10
	India
	Iran
	Iraq
	Kuwait
	Lebanon
	Saudi Arabia
	Singapore
	Syria
	Yemen

Year	Debutants	Total
1983	Chinese Taipei	3
	Hong Kong
	Nepal
1987	Jordan	4
	Pakistan
	Thailand
	United Arab Emirates
1989	Bangladesh	3
	Qatar
	Sri Lanka
1991	North Korea	2
	Samoa
1993	Kazakhstan	1
1995	None	0
1997	Macau	2
	Uzbekistan
1999	None	0

Year	Debutants	Total
2001	None	0
2003	None	0
2005	Vietnam	1
2007	Maldives	1
2009	Lebanon	2
	Myanmar
2011	Afghanistan	2
	Turkmenistan
2013	Oman	1
2015	None	0
2017	None	0

Awards

Most Valuable Player

Tournament	Most Valuable Player
1999 Tehran	Behnam Mahmoudi
2001 Changwon	Shin Jin-sik
2003 Tianjin	Yejju Subba Rao
2005 Suphan Buri	Marcos Sugiyama
2007 Jakarta	Dan Howard
2009 Manila	Tatsuya Fukuzawa
2011 Tehran	Arash Kamalvand
2013 Dubai	Saeid Marouf
2015 Tehran	Kunihiro Shimizu
2017 Gresik	Yūki Ishikawa

Best Opposite Spiker

Tournament	Best Opposite Spiker
2015 Tehran	Farhad Piroutpour
2017 Gresik	Rivan Nurmulki

Best Outside Spikers

Tournament	Best Outside Spikers
2015 Tehran	Pouria Fayazi
	Hamzeh Zarini
2017 Gresik	Yūki Ishikawa
	Vitaliy Vorivodin

Best Middle Blockers

Tournament	Best Middle Blockers
2015 Tehran	Zhang Zhejia
	Mostafa Sharifat
2017 Gresik	Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov
	Haku Ri

Best Setter

Tournament	Best Setter
1999 Tehran	Zhou Jianan
2001 Changwon	Choi Tae-woong
2003 Tianjin	Wang Hebing
2005 Suphan Buri	Yong Moon-kan
2007 Jakarta	Kosuke Tomonaga
2009 Manila	Han Sun-soo
2011 Tehran	Amir Hosseini
2013 Dubai	Saeid Marouf
2015 Tehran	Hideomi Fukatsu
2017 Gresik	Naonobu Fujii

Best Libero

Tournament	Best Libero
2007 Jakarta	Yeo Oh-hyun
2009 Manila	Yeo Oh-hyun
2011 Tehran	Farhad Zarif
2013 Dubai	Farhad Zarif
2015 Tehran	Daisuke Sakai
2017 Gresik	Oh Jae-seong

Former awards

Best Scorer

Tournament	Best Scorer
1999 Tehran	Benjamin Hardy
2001 Changwon	Benjamin Hardy
2003 Tianjin	Dan Howard
2005 Suphan Buri	Yu Koshikawa
2007 Jakarta	Mohammad Mohammadkazem
2009 Manila	Kim Yo-han
2011 Tehran	Kim Yo-han
2013 Dubai	Zhong Weijun

Best Spiker

Tournament	Best Spiker
1999 Tehran	Benjamin Hardy
2001 Changwon	Lee Kyung-soo
2003 Tianjin	Yejju Subba Rao
2005 Suphan Buri	Lee Sun-kyu
2007 Jakarta	Lee Kyung-soo
2009 Manila	Andri Widiatmoko
2011 Tehran	Nathan Roberts
2013 Dubai	Amir Ghafour

Best Server

Tournament	Best Server
1999 Tehran	Kim Se-jin
2001 Changwon	Dan Howard
2003 Tianjin	Yejju Subba Rao
2005 Suphan Buri	Yejju Subba Rao
2007 Jakarta	Lee Sun-kyu
2009 Manila	Mohammad Mousavi
2011 Tehran	Liang Chunlong
2013 Dubai	Mohammad Mousavi

Best Blocker

Tournament	Best Blocker
1999 Tehran	Zhu Gang
2001 Changwon	Shin Jin-sik
2003 Tianjin	Zheng Liang
2005 Suphan Buri	Lee Kyung-soo
2007 Jakarta	Yu Koshikawa
2009 Manila	Kim Yo-han
2011 Tehran	Kim Yo-han
2013 Dubai	Zhong Weijun

Best Receiver

Tournament	Best Receiver
1999 Tehran	Li Tieming
2001 Changwon	Yeo Oh-hyun
2003 Tianjin	Suk Jin-wook
2007 Jakarta	Siriphum Supachai
2009 Manila	Yeo Oh-hyun

Best Digger

Tournament	Best Digger
1999 Tehran	Koichi Nishimura
2001 Changwon	Kenji Yamamoto
2003 Tianjin	Yeo Oh-hyun

See also

• Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
• Volleyball at the Asian Games
• AVC Cup for Men
• Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship
• Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship
• Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship

References

• Sports123.com

External links

• Official AVC website