| Competition: | Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Other Titles: | バレーボールアジア選手権 日本 2021 |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Size: | 280px |
| City: | Chiba and Funabashi |
| Dates: | 12–19 September |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 2 |
| Champions: | IRI |
| Title Number: | 4 |
| Second: | JPN |
| Third: | CHN |
| Fourth: | TPE |
| Mvp: | Saber Kazemi |
| Setter: | Javad Karimi |
| Outside Spikers: | Milad Ebadipour  Yūki Ishikawa |
| Middle Blockers: | Aliasghar Mojarad  Li Yongzhen |
| Opposite Spiker: | Kento Miyaura |
| Libero: | Mohammad Reza Hazratpour |
| Matches: | 56 |
| Website: | 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Last: | 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
| Next: | 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship |
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.
On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship:[1]
Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all events will be selected by
| Event(s) | Dates | Location | Berths | Qualifier(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 11 February 2020 | N/A | 1 | |||
| 13 – 21 September 2019 | 9 | |||||
| Direct zonal wildcards | East Asia | No later than 2 February 2021 | N/A | 1 | ||
| Southeast Asia | 1 | |||||
| West Asia | 3 | |||||
| 2021 Central Asian Qualifier | 14 July 2021 | Colombo | 1 | |||
| Total | 16 | |||||
Japan qualified as the hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to zonal entrants.
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]
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]
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]
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.
| Seeded Teams | width=25% | Pot 2 | width=25% | Pot 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) (1) (2) (4) | (5) (6) (7) (8) | (9) (10) (11) (14)* | (15) (16) (N/A) (N/A) |
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | (2) | (4) | ||||
| (8) | (7) | (6) | (5) | ||||
| 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 | |
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See main article: article and 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championships squads.
| width=50% | Preliminary round, Pool E, F, 5th–8th places and Final four | width=50% | 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 | ||
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 |
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| 4 | ||
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| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the 2022 World Championship | |
| width=10px bgcolor=#dfefff | Qualified for the 2022 World Championship via the FIVB World Ranking | |
| 14–man roster | |
| Mahdi Jelveh, Milad Ebadipour (c), Reza Abedini, Amir Hossein Toukhteh, Aliasghar Mojarad, Esmaeil Mosafer, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Meisam Salehi, Saber Kazemi, Amir Hossein Esfandiar, Ali Ramezani, Javad Karimi, Amin Esmaeilnejad, Abolfazl Gholipour | |
| Head coach | |
| Behrouz Ataei |