2017 Asian Girls' U18 Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Asian Girls' U18 Championship
Continent:	Asia
Gender:	women
Year:	2017
Size:	256px
Dates:	5–13 March
Teams:	11
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	Japan
Title Number:	7
Mvp:	Yuki Nishikawa
Website:	Official website
Last:	2014 Asian Youth Girls Volleyball Championship
Next:	2018 Women's Asian U17 Volleyball Championship

The 2017 Asian Girls' U18 Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the Women's Asian U18 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), that year with the Chinese Volleyball Association (CVA). It was held in Chongqing, China from 5 to 13 March 2017. The tournament served as the Asian qualifiers for the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship held in Argentina, with the top four teams qualifying.^[1]

The matches were played in only one stadium in Chongqing, the Chongqing No. 8 Secondary School Gymnasium. It was the second time that China and the first time that Chongqing hosted the tournament. As hosts, China automatically participated in the tournament, along with the remaining 10 teams (after Kazakhstan withdrew)..

Japan won the tournament with a 3–0 final win over China. Both finalists and the semifinalists, South Korea and Thailand, qualified for the World Championship.

Participating teams

Central Asia (CAZA)	East Asia (EAZA)	Oceania (OZA)	Southeast Asia (SEAZA)	West Asia (WAZA)
	(host)

Pools composition

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship. The host country and the top 7 ranked teams were seeded through the Serpentine system. The 7 remaining teams were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets, except the host (who ranked 3rd) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (-).

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(host)	(1)	(2)	(4)
(8)	(7)	(6)	(5)
(9)	(-)	(13)	(-)

• Kazakhstan withdrew after the draw.

Pool standing procedure

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

Pool D

Second round

• The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round were taken into account for the classification round.
• All times are China Standard Time

Pool F

Final round

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

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Qualified for the 2017 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship

Awards

• Most valuable player

Yuki Nishikawa

• Best Outside Hitters

Park Hye-min

Yuki Nishikawa

• Best setter

Zhang Zihan

• Best Middle Blockers

Mao Junyi

Lee Ju-ah

• Best libero

Mizusugi Rena

• Best Opposite

Sun Xiaoxuan

Notes and References

1. Web site: chongqing-to-host-11th-asian-girls-u18-championship-in-march. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202005511/http://asianvolleyball.net/2017/01/chongqing-to-host-11th-asian-girls-u18-championship-in-march/. dead. February 2, 2017. Asian Volleyball Confederation. 21 January 2017.