| Competition: | Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Size: | 280 |
| City: | Tehran |
| Dates: | 13–21 September |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | IRI |
| Title Number: | 3 |
| Second: | AUS |
| Third: | JPN |
| Fourth: | KOR |
| Mvp: |  Thomas Edgar |
| Matches: | 60 |
| Website: | 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Last: | 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Next: | 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
The 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twentieth 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 13 to 21 September 2019.
Top eight teams which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics qualified for the 2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by
| width=25% | Means of qualification | width=27% | Date! | width=20% | Venue! | width=6% | Vacancies! | width=22% | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Country | 1 | ||||||||
| 2017 Asian Championship | 24 July–1 August 2017 | Gresik | |||||||
| Eastern Asia Representatives | 1 | ||||||||
| Central Asia Representatives | Cancelled[1] | 1+2 | |||||||
| Southeast Asian Representative | 1 | ||||||||
| Western Asia Qualifier | 17–21 July 2019 | Muscat | 1+1 | ||||||
| Oceania Representative | |||||||||
| Total | 16 | ||||||||
Iran qualified as hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked nation, Thailand.
Vietnam originally qualified, but declined to enter.
Turkmenistan was to play India and Sri Lanka in the Central Asia qualification tournament. However, Turkmenistan was barred from playing due to violating competition regulations prior to tournament. Both India and Sri Lanka qualified.
Pakistan were granted entry and was not among the three teams originally set to participate in the cancelled Central Asia qualifiers.
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2017 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2017 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019.[2] Final standings of the 2017 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 5th.
| Seeded Teams | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D |
| (Hosts) (8) | (1) (7) | (2) (6) | (3) (4) | ||||
| Unseeded Teams | |||||||
| (9) (11) (12) (14) (16) | |||||||
| width=50% colspan=4 | Final eight | width=50% colspan=4 | 9th–16th places | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=25% colspan=2 | Pool E | width=25% colspan=2 | Pool F | width=25% colspan=2 | Pool G | width=25% colspan=2 | Pool H | |
| width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | |||||
| width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | |||||
| width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | |||||
| width=3% | width=3% | width=3% | width=3% |
See main article: 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship squads.
| width=50% | Preliminary, Classification round and Final eight | width=50% | Preliminary, Classification round, 13th–16th places and 9th–12th places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tehran, Iran | |||
| Azadi Indoor Stadium | Azadi Volleyball Hall | ||
| Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 3,000 | ||
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
| width=40 | Rank | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| 14 | ||
| 15 | ||
| 16 |
| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the 2020 Asian Olympic Qualifier (Pakistan later withdrew and replaced by Kazakhstan) | ||
| width=10px bgcolor=#87ceeb | Already qualified as hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 14–man roster | |
| Milad Ebadipour, Saeid Marouf (c), Farhad Ghaemi, Mohammad Mousavi (volleyball), Purya Fayazi, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Masoud Gholami, Amir Ghafour, Ali Asghar Mojarrad, Ali Shafiei, Mohammad Reza Moazzen, Porya Yali, Amir Hossein Esfandiar, Javad Karimi | |
| Head coach | |
| Igor Kolaković |
