2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
Continent:Asia
Year:2021
Size:300
City:Nakhon Ratchasima
Dates:8–15 October
Teams:10
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions Other: Foolad Sirjan
Title Number:1
Mvp: Saber Kazemi
Website:2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
Last:2019 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
Next:2022 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship

The 2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship, an annual international volleyball club tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). The tournament was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, from 8 to 15 October 2021. The champions qualified for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.[1]

The last edition was held in 2019. A tournament was supposed to be held in 2020 in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, the maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by:[3]

Qualified associations

Event(s)DatesLocationBerthsQualifier(s)
Host Country1 Thailand
2019 Asian Championship27 April–5 May 2019 Taipei5 Iran
Japan
Qatar
India
Sri Lanka
Chinese Taipei
Vietnam
Australia
Indonesia
Thailand
Kazakhstan
CAZVA representatives No later than 2 February 2021 Bangkok1 Uzbekistan
SEAZVA representatives 1 Philippines
WAZVA representatives 2 Iraq
Kuwait
Total10

Thailand as host country is entitled to enter two teams if they are less than 16 entrants. Their two berths are credited to have been attained as host nation and tenth placers in the 2019 championships.

As Thailand already qualified as host, a berth was given to Kazakhstan through their eleventh place finishing of the 2019 championship.

Participating teams

The following teams participated for the tournament.

width=180Associationwidth=250Teamwidth=350Domestic league standing
2020–21 Men's Volleyball Thailand League champions
2020–21 Men's Volleyball Thailand League runner-up
2020–21 Iranian Volleyball Super League champions
N/A (National team)

Squads

See main article: 2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship squads.

Draw

The draw was held on 3 August 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand.[1]

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

Venues

Matches will be held at the Terminal Hall – Terminal 21 Korat, an indoor arena within the Terminal 21

All rounds
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Terminal 21 Korat
Capacity: 3,500

Preliminary round

Pool B

Final round

9th–10th places

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th place match

Final four

Final

Final standing

width=40RankTeam
Foolad Sirjan
Al Arabi
Burevestnik Almaty
4 Nakhon Ratchasima QminC
5 South Gas
6 Kazma
7 Diamond Food
8 AGMK
9 Rebisco
10 CEB
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2021 Club World Championship
14–man roster
Sahand Allah Verdian, Mahdi Jelveh, Aleksandar Blagojević, Amir Hossein Derakhshan, Ramin Khani, Rasoul Shahsavari Nejad, Ali Asghar Razmfar, Mohammad Sadeghi Malati, Shahrooz Homayonfarmanesh, Mojtaba Gholizad, Alireza Behboudi (c), Armin Tashakkori, Saber Kazemi, Mostafa Heidari
Head coach
Saeid Rezaei

Awards

Saber Kazemi (Foolad Sirjan)

Georgiev Borislav (Al Arabi)

Konstantin Čupković (Al Arabi)

Vitaliy Vorivodin (Burevestnik Almaty)

Mahdi Jelveh (Foolad Sirjan)

Nodirkhan Kadirkhanov (Burevestnik Almaty)

Felipe Bandero (Al Arabi)

Tanapat Charoensuk (Nakhon Ratchasima QminC)

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Draws Revealed for 2021 Asian Men’s and Women’s Club Championships in Thailand . Asian Volleyball Confederation . 10 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Cancellation and postponement confirmed for 2020 AVC Championships. Asian Volleyball Confederation. 17 July 2020. 11 January 2021.
  3. Web site: 2021 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship (Qualification Tournament for Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship 2021) . Asian Volleyball Confederation . 18 August 2021.