2018 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship
Continent:Asia
Gender:women
Year:2018
Type:20
Size:200px
Dates:10–17 June
Teams:15
Confederations:1
Venues:2
Cities:2
Champions:JPN
Title Number:6
Mvp: Kanon Sonoda
Website:Bắc Ninh 2018
Last:2016 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship
Next:2022 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship

The 2018 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, referred to as the 2018 SMM Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the nineteenth edition of the Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of Vietnam (VFV) for the women's under-19 national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam, from 10 to 17 June 2018.

A total of fifteen teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2000 eligible to participate.

Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the AVC qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship. The top two teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, as the AVC representatives.

Qualification

The fifteen AVC member associations will participate in the tournament (included the India, who was suspended by the FIVB and was lifted the suspension in May 2018), Vietnam qualified as host country. There are thirteen teams participated in the 2016 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, and the one remaining teams did not participate in the previous edition. The fifteen AVC member associations were from four zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (6 teams), Oceania (2 team) and Southeast Asia (3 teams). While any West Asian teams did not participate this edition and Uzbekistan withdrew from the tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualificationBirthsQualified
Host country1
Central Asian teams4
East Asian teams6
Oceanian teams2
Southeast Asian team2
Total 15

Pools composition

This is the first Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship which will use the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format will see teams being drawn into four pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the host side will be assigned into a pool according to their 2016 ranking. The four best-ranked teams will be drawn in the same Pool A, the next best four will contest Pool B, the next best four will contest Pool C. Pool D will comprise teams finishing next best three teams.[1]

width=25%Pool Awidth=25%Pool Bwidth=25%Pool Cwidth=25%Pool D
(1) (5) (9) (14)
(2) (6) (11) (15)
(3) (7) (12) (–)
(4; Host) (8) (13) (–)

Venues

CodeVenueCapacityLocation
BNG
UPS

Preliminary round

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

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
Match forfeited: 0 match points for each.

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Bracket composition

Pool APool BPool CPool D
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Final round

Classification round (R9–15)

Thirteenth to Fifteenth places

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Thirteenth place

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Ninth to Fifteenth places

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Ninth to Twelfth places

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Eleventh place

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Ninth place

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Classification round (R5–8)

Fifth to Eight places

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Seventh place

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Fifth place

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Championship round (R1–15)

Round of 15

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place

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Final

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Final standing

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2019 FIVB U20 World Championship and 2021 FIVB U20 World Championship
width=10px bgcolor=#87ceebQualified for the 2021 FIVB U20 World Championship
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Awards

Kanon Sonoda

Thanacha Sooksod

Ayumi Yoshida

Kanon Sonoda

Xu Luyao

Wen Yi-chin

Jiao Dian

Sayaka Daikuzono

Broadcasting rights

TerritoryChannel
AVC partnerSMMTV
Thailand
Thairath TV
Thể Thao TV

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NEW COMPETITION FORMAT SET FOR 2018 AVC CHAMPIONSHIPS . AVC . 27 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180227103833/http://asianvolleyball.net/2018/02/new-competition-format-set-for-2018-avc-championships/ . 27 February 2018 . dead .