2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
Continent:	Asia
Gender:	women
Year:	2022
Size:	300
Host:	Thailand
City:	Nakhon Pathom
Dates:	6–13 June
Teams:	11
Confederations:	1
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	JPN
Title Number:	9
Second:	CHN
Third:	KOR
Fourth:	THA
Matches:	35
Last:	2018 Women's Asian U17 Volleyball Championship
Next:	2024 Women's Asian U18 Volleyball Championship

The 2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship was the 14th edition of the Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international women's volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), in 2022 with the Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA), for the under–18 women's national teams of Asia.

The tournament was held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, from 6 to 13 June 2022. The tournament was supposed to be hosted by Uzbekistan on the same dates, but due to unforeseen reasons Nakhon Pathom replaced Tashkent as the host city for the eight-day Championship. That year, the previously U17 tournament was adjusted to become an U18 championship as approved by the AVC Board of Administration.

Like the previous editions, the tournament acted as the AVC qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship. The top four teams qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship as the AVC's representatives.^[1]

A total of eleven teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate. It was originally a U-17 competition for players born on or after 2006,^[2] but as the change to a U-18 tournament proceeded, the age restriction was changed to 2005.^[3]

Qualified teams

Following AVC regulations, the maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events were selected according to the following:

1 team for the host country
10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition
5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified associations

Country	Zone	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
Country	Zone	Qualified as	Qualified on	Total	First	Last	Previous best performance
	EAZVA		27 May 2018	11	1997	2018	Champions (1997, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018)
	EAZVA	2018 Asian Championship runners-up	27 May 2018	12	1997	2018	Champions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005)
	SEAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 3rd place and host country	27 May 2018	12	1997	2018	Runners-up (2014)
	EAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 4th place	27 May 2018	12	1997	2018	Runners-up (1997, 2005, 2007)
	EAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 5th place	27 May 2018	12	1997	2018	3rd place (1999, 2008, 2010)
	CAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 6th place	27 May 2018	6	2003	2018	6th place (2003, 2010, 2014, 2018)
	CAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 7th place	27 May 2018	6	2008	2018	7th place (2018)
	CAZVA	2018 Asian Championship 8th place	27 May 2018	9	2001	2018	5th place (2003)
	OZVA	2018 Asian Championship 9th place	27 May 2018	11	1999	2018	6th place (1999)
	~~OZVA~~	~~2018 Asian Championship 10th place~~	~~27 May 2018~~	4	~~2010~~	~~2018~~	~~8th place (2014, 2017)~~
	CAZVA	Automatically qualified as CAZVA wild card	15 January 2022	1	2017	2017	10th place (2017)
	SEAZVA	Automatically qualified as SEAZVA wild card	15 January 2022	6	1997	2014	7th place (2014)

Format and Pools composition

According to the unveiled competition schedule, all participating teams would be split into Pool A and Pool B. Teams would compete in pool round-robin preliminaries, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the cross semifinals. Teams finishing 3rd and 4th in each pool would next compete in the classification round for the 5th–8th places, while those finishing 5th and 6th in each pool will fight for the 9th, 10th and 11th places.^[4]

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B
(Host)

Venues

The tournament was hosted at the Nakhon Pathom Sports Center Gymnasium in Mueang Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Pathom.

All rounds
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Nakhon Pathom Sports Center Gymnasium
Capacity: 4,000

Pool standing procedure

Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
- Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
- Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
- Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
- Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
- Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
- If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

All times are Indochina Time

Pool B

Final round

All times are Indochina Time

9th–11th Classification round

9th place match

5th–8th Classification round

5th place match

Final Four

Final

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc		Qualified for the 2023 Girls' U19 World Championship

12–woman roster
Kokomi Kawamata, Miuka Watanabe, Ciara Mie Athina Hirano, Riri Kasai (c), Sae Omori, Cindy Chisom Ndigwe, Miku Akimoto, Yuzuki Baba, Mio Kitagawa, Kokoro Hidaka, Sanae Yoshida, Rin Nishikawa
Head coach
Daichi Saegusa

Awards

Most valuable player

Omori Sae

Best setter

Yoshida Sanae

Best outside spikers