2015 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Asian Men's U23 Championship
Continent:	Asia
Year:	2015
Dates:	12–20 May
Teams:	16
Venues:	2
Cities:	1
Champions:	IRI
Title Number:	1
Mvp:	Purya Fayazi
Website:	Asian Men's U23 Championship
Last:	first
Next:	2017 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship

The 2015 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship was held in Naypyidaw, Myanmar from 12 to 20 May 2015. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and served as the Asian qualifier for the 2015 Men's U23 World Championship to be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which the top two teams qualified for the world championship.^[1] Iran won the tournament and Purya Fayazi was the most valuable player.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship. All teams not seeded were drawn. But, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Turkmenistan later withdrew. Final standing of the 2014 Asian U20 Championship are shown in brackets except the hosts who did not participate in the 2014 Asian U20 Championship.

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(Hosts)	(1)	(2)	(3)
(8)	(7)	(6)	(5)
(–)	(–)	(–)	(–)
(15)	(–)	(13)	(10)
(12)	(9)	(–)

Venues

• Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall B, Naypyidaw, Myanmar – Pool A, B and Final eight
• Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex – Hall C, Naypyidaw, Myanmar – Pool C, D and 9th–16th places

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points 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 Myanmar Standard Time .

Pool D

Final round

• All times are Myanmar Standard Time .
• The first and third placed teams of each Preliminary round pools were seeded in Quarterfinals and 9th–16th Quarterfinals respectively. The second and fourth placed teams of each Preliminary round pools were drawn to match the first and third placed teams respectively. The teams in same pool in preliminary round didn't play each other in Quarterfinals and 9th–16th Quarterfinals.

9th–16th places

9th place match

Final eight

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

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Qualified for the 2015 U23 World Championship

12–man roster
Pouya, Ghaleh, Razipour, Bagheri, Fallah, Fayazi (c), Shahsavari, Javaheri, Hosseinabadi, Manavinejad, Fathali, Nasr
Head coach
Akbari

Awards

• Most valuable player

Purya Fayazi

• Best setter

Mostafa Bagheri

• Best outside spikers

Purya Fayazi

Liu Hung-Min

• Best middle blockers

Kim In-hyeok

Javad Hosseinabadi

• Best opposite spiker

Jung Ji-seok

• Best libero

Lee Ji-hun

See also

• 2015 Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship

External links

• Official website
• Regulations
• Squads

Notes and References

1. News: AVC launches 2015 volleyball calendar. https://web.archive.org/web/20141214222904/http://www.asianvolleyball.org/news/detail/id/3048/category/Volleyball+News/navf. dead. 14 December 2014. 20 December 2014. Asian Volleyball Confederation. 9 December 2014.