| Competition: | Asian Women's Volleyball Cup |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Gender: | women |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Size: | 280px |
| Dates: | 16–23 September |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | CHN |
| Title Number: | 5 |
| Second: | JPN |
| Third: | THA |
| Fourth: | TPE |
| Mvp: |  Liu Yanhan |
| Last: | 2016 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup |
| Next: | 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup |
The 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Women was the sixth edition of the Asian Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). The tournament was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 16 to 23 September 2018.[1] [2]
As hosts, Thailand automatically qualified for the tournament, while the remaining 9 teams, qualified from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship in Biñan and Muntinlupa, Philippines.
See main article: 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.
The ten AVC member associations participated in the tournament with Thailand already qualified as host country, and the nine remaining teams qualified from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The ten AVC member associations were from three zonal associations, including, Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (4 teams), Oceania (1 team) and Southeast Asia (3 teams). While any West Asian teams did not participate the tournament's qualification.
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | 1 | |||
| Central Asian teams | 2 | |||
| East Asian teams | 4 | |||
| Oceanian team | 1 | |||
| Southeast Asian teams | 2 | |||
| Total 10 | ||||
| width=20% | Pool A | width=20% | Pool B | width=20% | Pool C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Host) | (4) | (7) | |||
| (1) | (5) | (8) | |||
| (3) | (6) | (9) | |||
| (10) |
All matches will be held at Korat Chatchai Hall, Nakhon Ratchasima.
See main article: 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup squads.
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
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| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| style="text-align:center;" width=5% | - | style="text-align:center;" width=5% | - | 4 |
| width=40 | Rank | width=200 | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | |||
| 10 |
| 14–woman roster | |
| Yang Zhou, Che Wenhan, Ren Kaiyi, Gao Yi, Sun Haiping, Chen Xintong, Chen Peiyan, Gong Meizi, Zheng Yixin, Wang Meiyi, Liu Yanhan, Duan Fang, Zhang Yichan (c), Meng Zixuan | |
| Head coach | |
| Shi Hairong |
Miwako Osanai
Sun Haiping
Tseng Wan-Ling
