2024 AVC Men's Challenge Cup explained

Competition:AVC Men's Challenge Cup
Other Titles:كأس التحدي الآسيوي للرجال للكرة الطائرة
Continent:Asia
Year:2024
Size:300
Host:Bahrain
City:Isa Town
Dates:2–9 June
Teams:12
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:QAT
Title Number:1
Second:PAK
Third:KOR
Fourth:KAZ
Mvp: Renan Ribeiro
Setter: Borislav Georgiev
Opposite Spiker: Murad Khan
Libero: Nasir Ali
Matches:28
Last:2023 AVC Men's Challenge Cup
Next:2025 AVC Men's Challenge Cup

The 2024 AVC Men's Challenge Cup was the fifth edition of the AVC Men's Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), in that year with the Bahrain Volleyball Association (BVA). The tournament was held at the Isa Bin Rashid Hall in Isa Town, Bahrain from 2 to 9 June 2024.[1] The winners of the tournament, Qatar, qualified for the 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup.[2]

Qatar won their first title after defeating Pakistan in a straight-sets final. South Korea defeated Kazakhstan in a four-set 3rd place match and took the bronze medal. Renan Ribeiro was named as the MVP of the tournament.[3]

Host selection

Bahrain and Australia submitted its bid to host the tournament by December 2023.[4] Bahrain was awarded the hosting rights.

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, the maximum of 12 teams in for the AVC Challenge Cup will be selected by:

CountryZoneQualified asQualified onPrevious appearancesPrevious best performance
TotalFirstLast
WAZVAHost country13 July 2023120232023Runners-up (2023)
SEAVADefending champions13 July 2023120232023Champions (2023)
EAZVA2023 Challenge Cup 3rd placer13 July 20231202320233rd place (2023)
SEAVA2023 Challenge Cup 4th placer13 July 20231202320234th place (2023)
OZVA2023 Challenge Cup 5th placer13 July 20231202320235th place (2023)
SEAVA2023 Challenge Cup 6th placer13 July 20231202320236th place (2023)
CAVA2023 Challenge Cup 7th placer3 May 20241202320237th place (2023)
WAZVAZonal Quotas3 May 20240NoneNone
EAZVA3 May 20240NoneNone
EAZVA3 May 20241202320239th place (2023)
CAVA3 May 20240NoneNone
SEAVA3 May 202412023202310th place (2023)
and, which were part of the 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, were ineligible to submit entries to this tournament.[1]

Venue

All matches
Isa Town, Bahrain
Isa Bin Rashed Hall
Capacity: 10,500

Pools composition

The overview of pools was released on 3 May 2024.[5]

width=25%Pool Awidth=25%Pool Bwidth=25%Pool Cwidth=25%Pool D
(Hosts) (1) (3) (4)
(–) (7) (6) (5)
(–) (–) (–) (–)

Pool standing procedure

  1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
  2. 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
  3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC 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.

Squads

The full list of team squads were announced on the competition daily bulletin.[6]

Preliminary round

Pool D

Final round

9th–12th places

9th place match

Final eight

Final

Final standing

width=40Rankwidth=180Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2024 FIVB Challenger Cup
width=10px bgcolor=#87ceebQualified as hosts for the 2024 FIVB Challenger Cup
14–man roster
Youssef Oughlaf, Papemaguette Diagne, André Luiz Queiroz, Renan Ribeiro, Borislav Georgiev, Belal Nabel Abunabot, Waleed Widatalla, Ghanem Al-Remaihi, Nikola Vasić, Mubarak Dahi, Raimi Wadidie, Ibrahim Ibrahim (c), Ahmed Abdelrahim, Naji Mahmoud
Head coach
Camilo Andres Soto

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Preechachan . Title-Holders Vietnam and Hosts Philippines Among 12 Teams to Qualify for 2024 AVC Challenge Cup for Women in May . 16 April 2024 . . 12 April 2024.
  2. Web site: Preechachan . All Set for AVC Challenge Cup for Men in Bahrain . . 2 June 2024 . 2 June 2024.
  3. Web site: Preechachan . Qatar Crowned 2024 Avc Challenge Cup Champions, Secure Fivb Challenger Cup Berth . 10 June 2024 . . 10 June 2024.
  4. Web site: Preechachan . AVC Competition Calendar Serves up Mouthwatering Underaged Competitions in 2024 . 19 April 2024 . . 22 December 2023.
  5. Web site: Preechachan . Draws Unveiled for 2024 AVC Challenge Cups . 3 May 2024 . . 3 May 2024.
  6. Web site: AVC Challenge Cup 2024: Daily Bulletin #1 . 2024-06-02 . . en-US.