2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
Continent:	Asia
Year:	2017
Size:	280
City:	Gresik
Dates:	24 July – 1 August
Teams:	16
Confederations:	1
Venues:	2
Cities:	1
Champions:	JPN
Title Number:	9
Second:	KAZ
Third:	KOR
Fourth:	INA
Mvp:	Yūki Ishikawa
Website:	2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
Last:	2015 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
Next:	2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

The 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the nineteenth staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, the biennial international men's volleyball championship of Asia organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyball Federation (PBVSI). The tournament was held in Gresik, Indonesia from 24 July to 1 August 2017.

Qualification

The 16 AVC member associations submitted their men's national team to the 2017 Asian Championship. The 16 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 team), Southeast Asia (3 teams), and West Asian teams (3 teams).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host Country	1
Central Asian teams	4



East Asian teams	5




Oceanian team	1
Southeast Asian teams	2
Southeast Asian teams
West Asian teams	3


Total 16

Pools composition

Preliminary round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 22 August 2016.^[1] 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 Bangkok, Thailand on 27 February 2017.^[2] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 42nd.

Seeded Teams
width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(Hosts) (36)	(7) (33)	(14) (22)	(15) (20)
Unseeded Teams
(36) (42) (50) (50) (77) (77) (77) (77)

Draw

Classification round

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Venues

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Gresik, Indonesia
Tri Dharma Petrokimia Gymnasium	Wahana Ekspresi Poesponegoro Gymnasium
Capacity: Unknown	Capacity: Unknown

Pool standing procedure

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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 Indonesia Western Time .

Pool D

Classification round

All times are Indonesia Western 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 Indonesia Western Time .

13th–16th places

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th place match

Final eight

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team



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14
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16

14–man roster
Otake, Hideomi Fukatsu (c), Naonobu Fujii, Yuta Yoneyama, Akihiro Yamauchi, Takashi Dekita, Masahiro Yanagida, Satoshi Ide, Shuzo Yamada, Yūki Ishikawa, Haku Ri, Kentaro Takahashi, Hiroaki Asano, Taichiro Koga
Head coach
Yuichi Nakagaichi