| Competition: | AVC Men's Challenge Cup |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Size: | 250px |
| Dates: | 15–21 September |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| City: | Colombo |
| Champions: | IRQ |
| Title Number: | 1 |
| Second: | KSA |
| Third: | SRI |
| Fourth: | BAN |
| Mvp: | Ahmed Albakheet |
| Website: | 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup |
| Last: | first |
| Next: | 2022 AVC Men's Challenge Cup |
The 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup was the inaugural edition of the AVC Challenge Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) and that year with the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVF). The tournament was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 15 to 21 September 2018.[1]
See main article: 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.
8 AVC member associations qualified for the 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup. Sri Lanka qualified as hosts and the 3 teams were qualified from the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship while 4 teams were new entrants. The 8 AVC member associations were from 4 zonal associations, including Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (2 team), Southeast Asia (1 team), and Western Asia (3 teams). Fiji and Uzbekistan withdrew from the tournament.
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
| Means of qualification | Births | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | 1 | ||
| Central Asian teams | 1 | ||
| East Asian teams | 2 | ||
| Oceanian teams | 0 | ||
| Southeast Asian teams | 1 | ||
| West Asian teams | 3 | ||
| Total | 8 |
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
| width=45% | Pool A | width=45% | Pool B |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | |||
| (16) | (13) | ||
| (15) |
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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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
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| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 |
| 14–man roster | |
| Safaa Lafta Majeed (c), Hussain Nameer Shamil, Husam Abdulsamad, Mustafa Ghani Hussain, Mustafa Hameed Jabbar, Abbas Abdulkareem, Murtadha Zuhair Mohammed, Islam Sachit Challab, Aymen Ali Muslim, Falih Mohammed Saleh, Ali Lafta Majeed, Riyadh Azeez Mohammed, Ali Sahib Abushanan, Osama Munef Sabbar | |
| Head coach | |
| ALAA KHALAF A. |
Ahmed Albakheet
Deepthi Romesh
Horosit Biswas
Mustafa Haneed Jabbar
Hussain Nameer Shamil
Ibrahim Majrashi
Islam Sachit Challab
Lakmal Wijesekara