2015 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship Explained

The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the eighteenth staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). The tournament was held in Tehran, Iran from 31 July to 8 August 2015.

Qualification

If there are not more than 16 teams, all teams will compete in the tournament.
If there are more than 16 teams, participating teams are:
– The host nation
– Top 10 ranked teams from the previous edition
– Representatives from each of the five Asian Volleyball Confederation Zonal Associations

There are 17 teams applied for the competition.^[1] But all teams can participate in the tournament.

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Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 22 September 2014.^[2] AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn in Tehran, Iran on 22 April 2015.^[3] But, Saudi Arabia later withdrew and Oman moved from pool A to C to balance the number of teams in each pool. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 10th.

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(Hosts)	(13)	(16)	(17)
(42)	(39)	(36)	(21)
(56)	(141)	(52)	(68)
(138)	(45)	(56)	(42)
(45)		(138)

Venues

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Tehran, Iran
Azadi Indoor Stadium	Azadi Volleyball Hall
Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 3,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Points ratio
4. Sets ratio
5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

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 Iran Daylight Time .

Pool D

Classification round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time .
• 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 H

Final round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time .

13th–16th places

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th place match

Final eight

Final

Final standing

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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

12–man roster
Kunihiro Shimizu (c), Daisuke Sakai, Yuta Matsuoka, Yoshifumi Suzuki, Akihiro Fukatsu, Masashi Kuriyama, Akihiro Yamauchi, Hideomi Fukatsu, Masahiro Yanagida, Takashi Dekita, Yuta Yoneyama, Hiroaki Asano
Head coach
Masashi Nambu

Awards

• Most valuable player

Kunihiro Shimizu

• Best setter

Hideomi Fukatsu

• Best outside spikers

Purya Fayazi

Hamzeh Zarini

• Best middle blockers

Zhang Zhejia

Mostafa Sharifat

• Best opposite spiker

Farhad Piroutpour

• Best libero

Daisuke Sakai

See also

• 2015 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

External links

• Official website
• Organizer's website
• Regulations
• Squads

Notes and References

1. Web site: The number of teams which participate in the tournament. AVC. 23 April 2015.
2. Web site: FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 22 September 2014) . . 22 September 2014.
3. Web site: Drawing of lot. 29 April 2015.