| Competition: | Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Size: | 300 |
| Host: | Indonesia |
| City: | Surabaya |
| Dates: | 23–30 July |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Title Number: | 8 |
| Mvp: | Pouya Ariakhah |
| Setter: | Emran Kook Jili |
| Opposite Spiker: | Dawuda Alaihi |
| Libero: |  Kang Seung-il |
| Matches: | 56 |
| Last: | 2022 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship |
| Next: | 2026 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship |
The 2024 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship was the 22nd edition of the Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyball Federation (PBVSI). The tournament took place in Surabaya, Indonesia from 23 to 30 July.[1] [2]
This tournament served as the qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Players must be born on or after January 1, 2005. Players who had played twice in the FIVB Junior (U20 or U21) Championships cannot play in AVC U20 Championship as it is a qualification event for the following year of FIVB U21 event.[3]
Iran won their eighth title of the tournament after defeating South Korea in straight sets (3–0) in the final.[4] Japan defeated Indonesia in the third place match (3–1).[5] Pouya Ariakhah of Iran named the MVP of the tournament.[6]
Chinese Taipei was originally going to host the Asian Men's U20 Championship,[1] but then host changed and Indonesia became the host.
The 16 AVC member associations submitted their U20 men's national team to the 2024 Asian U20 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 (3 teams) and West Asia (3 teams).
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.[7]
| width=25% | Pool A | width=25% | Pool B | width=25% | Pool C | width=25% | Pool D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | (2) | (3) | ||||
| (9) | (6) | (5) | (4) | ||||
| (14) | (13) | ||||||
| (11) |
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.
| Surabaya, Indonesia | ||
| DBL Arena | Gelora Pancasila | |
| Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: — | |
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 U21 World Championship | ||
| width=10px bgcolor=#dfefff | Qualified for the 2025 U21 World Championship as defending champions |
| 12–man roster | |
| Taha Behboudnia, Emran Kook Jili (c), Morteza Narimani, Seyed Morteza Tabatabaei, Abolfazl Mahdian, Pouya Ariakhah, Seyed Matin Hosseini Tolouti, Ali Eshghinour, Shayan Mehrabi, Ariyan Mahmoudi Nejad, Matin Soghli, Armin Ghelichniazi | |
| Head coach | |
| Gholamreza Momeni Moghaddam |
The following teams from AVC qualified for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship.
| [8] | 14 (1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) | ||
| [9] | 13 (1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2019) | ||
| 13 (1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) | |||
| [10] | 1 (1989) | ||
| 0 (None) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year.