2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup Explained

Competition:	Asian Men's Volleyball Cup
Continent:	Asia
Year:	2018
Size:	280px
City:	Taipei
Dates:	8–15 August
Teams:	9
Confederations:	1
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	QAT
Title Number:	1
Second:	IRI
Third:	JPN
Fourth:	TPE
Mvp:	Mohamed Ibrahim
Setter:	Javad Karimi
Outside Spikers:	Renan Ribeiro Liu Hung-min
Middle Blockers:	Mohamed Ibrahim Rahman Taghizadeh
Opposite Spiker:	Mubarak Hammad
Libero:	Tomohiro Ogawa
Website:	2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup
Last:	2016 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup
Next:	2022 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup

The 2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Men was the sixth edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association (CTVA). The tournament was held at University of Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan (referred to as Chinese Taipei by the AVC) from 8 to 15 August 2018.^[1] ^[2]

As hosts, Chinese Taipei automatically participated for the tournament, while the remaining 8 teams, qualified from the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship in Gresik, Indonesia.

Qualification

See main article: 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.

The 10 AVC member associations qualified for the 2018 Asian Cup. Chinese Taipei qualified as hosts and the 9 remaining teams qualified from the 2017 Asian Championship. But, China later withdrew. The 9 AVC member associations were from five zonal associations, including, Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (3 teams), Oceania (1 team), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (1 team).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host Country	1
Central Asian teams	2
Central Asian teams
East Asian teams	2


Oceanian team	1
Southeast Asian teams	2
Southeast Asian teams
West Asian team	1
Total 9

Pools composition

This was the first Asian Cup which used the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format saw teams were drawn into three pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the hosts was assigned into a pool according to their final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same pool A, the next best three contested pool B, the next best three contested pool C.^[3] Final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship are shown in brackets.

width=20%	Pool A	width=28%	Pool B	width=20%	Pool C
(1) (2) (3)	(5) (Hosts, 7) (8)	(9) (10) (11)

Venue

All matches
Taipei, Taiwan
University of Taipei Gymnasium
Capacity: 4,500

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 National Standard Time .

Pool C

Final round

All times are National Standard Time .

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9

14–man roster
Ibrahim (c), M. Essam, Renan, Sultan, Sulaiman, Belal, Miloš, Ababacar, Nikola, Mubarak, Osman, Ali, Ahmed G., Khaled
Head coach
Soto

Awards

Most valuable player

Mohamed Ibrahim

Best setter

Javad Karimi

Best outside spikers

Renan Ribeiro

Liu Hung-min

Best middle blockers