| Competition: | Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Size: | 300 |
| Host: | Bahrain |
| City: | Manama |
| Dates: | 28 July – 4 August |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Title Number: | 1 |
| Mvp: |  Ding Haocheng |
| Setter: | Gong Haoqian |
| Opposite Spiker: |  Yahya Muhammad |
| Libero: | Arabyarmohammadi Mohammadamin |
| Matches: | 56 |
| Last: | 2022 Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship |
| Next: | 2026 Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship |
The 2024 Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship was the 15th edition of the Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament took place in Manama, Bahrain from 27 July to 4 August.[1] [2]
This tournament served as the qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship as the AVC representatives.[3]
Players must be born on or after January 1, 2007. Asia U18 players who have already played once in the FIVB U19 Championship cannot play in AVC U18 Championship as it is a qualification event for the following year of FIVB U19 event. In principle, the players can participate in Asian U18 and FIVB U19 only once.[4]
China won their first title of the tournament after defeating Iran in a tiebreaker match (3–2) in the final.[5] Pakistan defeated Japan in the third place match.[6] Ding Haocheng of China named the MVP of the tournament.[7]
AVC awarded Bahrain the hosting rights of the 15th edition of Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship, after they hosted the 2024 AVC Men's Challenge Cup.
The 16 AVC member associations submitted their U19 men's national team to the 2024 Asian U19 Championship. The 16 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 teams), Southeast Asia (2 teams) and West Asia (4 teams).[8]
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Country | 1 | |||
| Central Asian teams | 4 | |||
| East Asian teams | 5 | |||
| Oceanian teams | 1 | |||
| Southeast Asian teams | 2 | |||
| West Asian teams | 3 | |||
| Total 16 | ||||
The overview of pools was released on 12 March 2024.[9]
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | (2) | (3) | ||||
| (7) | (6) | (5) | (4) | ||||
| (8) | |||||||
In preliminary round, all teams are divided into four pools (A, B, C, & D) with four teams each. The teams battled in a single round-robin with the top two teams in each pool qualified to 1st–8th classification while bottom two teams qualified to 9th–16th classification.
In classification round, all teams in each pools (E, F, G, & H) battle again in a single round-robin where top two teams in pools E and F qualify to semifinals and the two bottom teams qualify to 5th–8th places, while the top two teams in pools G and H qualify to 9th–12th places and 13th–16th places, respectively. Teams who faced each other in the preliminary will not play again rather their win-loss record will carry over.
In final round, the teams battle in knockout format.
| Manama, Bahrain | ||
| Isa Sport City Hall | ||
| Court 1 | Court 2 | |
| Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 5,000 | |
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 point (25–0;25-0;25-0)
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
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| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Qualified for the 2025 U19 World Championship |
| 12–man roster | |
| Ding Haocheng (c), Hu Hanlin, Yu Xiang, Gong Minghao, Wang Jinkebo, Zhao Nan, Zhang Hao, Niu Ge, Wang Kai, Gong Haoqian, Li Xuyang, Luo Zhenbo | |
| Head coach | |
| Hou Chundi |
The following teams from AVC qualified for the 2025 FIVB Men's U19 World Championship.
| [10] | 0 (None) | ||
| [11] | 12 (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) | ||
| [12] | 7 (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) | ||
| [13] | 14 (1989, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year.