Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship Explained

Last Season:2024 Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship
Sport:Volleyball
Inaugural:1997
Teams:16
Continents:Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Champion:
(1st title)
Most Champs:
(7 titles)

The Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under-18 men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's Asian-continent governing body. Tournaments have been held every two years since 1997. It broke its biennial design only in 2008, a year after it held its 2007 competition in Colombo, and in 2018, following the holding of a competition in 2017 in Naypyidaw after the tournament skipped the year 2016. It formerly carried the title Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship (in the tournament's 11th edition), Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship (in the 10th edition), Asian Youth Boys' Volleyball Championship (in the 4th-9th editions), and Asian Youth Men's Volleyball Championship (in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions).

The top four teams of each tournament qualified for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship. The current champion is China, which won its first title at the 2024 tournament.

14 of the championship's tournaments have been won by six different national teams. Iran have won seven times and Japan have won three times. The other winners are China, Chinese Taipei, South Korea and India with one title each.

Result summary

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width=14%Championswidth=9%Scorewidth=14%Runners-upwidth=14%3rd placewidth=9%Scorewidth=14%4th place
1997
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Baguio		Round-robinRound-robin8
1999
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Chiayi		Round-robinRound-robin8
2001
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Isfahan		3–13–210
2003
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Visakhapatnam		3–13–09
2005
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Tehran		3–03–08
2007
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Kuala Lumpur		3–03–211
2008
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Colombo		3–03–211
2010
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Tehran		3–23–110
2012
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Tehran		3–23–211
2014
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Colombo		3–03–115
2017
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Naypyidaw		3–03–111
2018
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Tabriz		3–13–117
2020
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Shiraz		Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022
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Tehran		3–0width=1% rowspan=14 bgcolor=#ffffff3–2width=1% rowspan=14 bgcolor=#ffffff8
2024
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Manama		3–23–016

Teams reaching the top four

TeamWinnersRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
style=background:#FFF68F7 (2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)3 (2003, 2022, 2024)1 (2018)1 (2017)
style=background:#FFF68F3 (2017, 2018, 2022)3 (1999, 2008, 2014)2 (1997, 2012)1 (2024)
style=background:#FFF68F1 (1999)5 (1997, 2001, 2005, 2017, 2018)1 (2010)3 (2007, 2012, 2022)
style=background:#FFF68F1 (2024)2 (2010, 2012)4 (1999, 2007, 2014, 2017)3 (1997, 2003, 2008)
style=background:#FFF68F1 (2003)1 (2007)3 (2005, 2008, 2022)1 (2010)
style=background:#FFF68F1 (1997)1 (2001)3 (2005, 2014, 2018)
1 (2003)1 (2001)
1 (2024)
1 (1999)

Champions by region

Federation (Region)Champion(s)Number
CAZVA (Central Asia)Iran (7), India (1)8 titles
EAZVA (East Asia)Japan (3), China (1), Chinese Taipei (1), South Korea (1)6 titles

Hosts

Times HostedNationsYear(s)
62001, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2018, 2020, 2022
22008, 2014
12024
1999
2003
2007
2017
1997

Participating nations

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1997
(8)!
1999
(8)!
2001
(10)!
2003
(9)!
2005
(8)!
2007
(11)!
2008
(11)!
2010
(10)!
2012
(11)!
2014
(15)!
2017
(11)!
2018
(17)!
2022
(8)!
2024
(16)! Total
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Debut of teams

YearDebutantsTotal
19978
19991
20014
2003None0
2005
20073
20083
2010None0
20121
2014
20172
20183
2022None
20241

Awards

Most Valuable Player

TournamentMost Valuable Player
2001 Isfahan Mohammad Soleimani
2003 Visakhapatnam Sanjay Kumar
2005 Tehran Saber Narimannejad
2007 Kuala Lumpur Mojtaba Shaban
2008 Colombo Farhad Salafzoun
2010 Tehran Ramin Khani
2012 Tehran Akbar Valaei
2014 Colombo Rasoul Aghchehli
2017 Naypyidaw Kento Miyaura
2018 Tabriz Taito Mizumachi
2022 Tehran Hiroki Bito
2024 Manama Ding Haocheng

Best Outside Spikers

TournamentBest Opposite Spiker
2014 Colombo Amir Hossein Esfandiar
Jan Min-han
2017 Naypyidaw Morteza Sharifi
Mahiro Saeki
2018 Tabriz Chang Hung-yeh
Park Seung-su
2022 Tehran Shunta Ono
S.Matin Hosseini
2024 Manama Yu Xiang
Rahimi Mohammad Amin

Best Opposite Spiker

TournamentBest Opposite Spiker
2014 Colombo Rasoul Aghchehli
2017 Naypyidaw Im Dong-hyeok
2018 Tabriz Bardia Saadat
2022 Tehran Aryan Baliyan
2024 Manama Yahya Muhhamad

Best Setter

TournamentBest Setter
2001 Isfahan Song Byung-il
2003 Visakhapatnam Ramaswami Kamraj
2005 Tehran Kim Gwang-guk
2007 Kuala Lumpur Cheng Li-sheng
2008 Colombo Kosuke Tomonaga
2010 Tehran Lee Min-gyu
2012 Tehran Yu Yaochen
2014 Colombo Javad Karimi
2017 Naypyidaw Choi Ik-je
2018 Tabriz Taiga Itoyama
2022 Tehran Emran Kook Jili
2024 Manama Gong Haoqian

Best Middle Blockers

TournamentBest Middle Blockers
2014 Colombo Ali Asghar Mojarad
Tao Zixuan
2017 Naypyidaw Wang Dongchen
Shunichiro Sato
2018 Tabriz Alireza Abdollahi
Riku Ito
2022 Tehran Taha Behboudnia
Kush Singh
2024 Manama Bateni Mohammadnima
Jabran Jabran

Best Libero

TournamentBest Libero
2005 Tehran Abdolreza Alizadeh
2008 Colombo Taiki Tsuruda
2010 Tehran Oh Jae-seong
2012 Tehran Lee Sang-uk
2014 Colombo Tomohiro Horie
2017 Naypyidaw Park Kyeong-min
2018 Tabriz Jang Ji-won
2022 Tehran Sena Kameoka
2024 Manama Arabyarmohammadi Mohammadamin

Former awards

Best Scorer

TournamentBest Scorer
2001 Isfahan Kang Dong-jin
2003 Visakhapatnam Mohammad Soleimani
2005 Tehran Mansour Zadvan
2007 Kuala Lumpur Mojtaba Shaban
2008 Colombo Pouria Fayazi
2010 Tehran Anup D'Costa
2012 Tehran Yuki Ishikawa

Best Spiker

TournamentBest Spiker
2001 Isfahan Mohammad Soleimani
2003 Visakhapatnam Pak Yong-nam
2005 Tehran Kang Young-jun
2007 Kuala Lumpur Chen Ping
2008 Colombo Dai Qingyao
2010 Tehran Jin Seong-tae
2012 Tehran Zhang Zhejia

Best Server

TournamentBest Server
2001 Isfahan Kang Dong-jin
2003 Visakhapatnam Arash Sadeghiani
2005 Tehran Arash Keshavarzi
2007 Kuala Lumpur Chen Ping
2008 Colombo Song Jianwei
2010 Tehran Song Jianwei
2012 Tehran Javad Hekmati

Best Blocker

TournamentBest Blocker
2001 Isfahan Davoud Moghbeli
2003 Visakhapatnam Sanjay Kumar
2005 Tehran Guttikonda Pradeep
2007 Kuala Lumpur Aidan Zingel
2008 Colombo Saman Faezi
2010 Tehran Armin Sadeghiani
2012 Tehran Sahand Allahverdian

Best Receiver

TournamentBest Receiver
2001 Isfahan Liu Hsiung
2003 Visakhapatnam P. S. Srikanth
2007 Kuala Lumpur Chien Wei-lun

Best Digger

TournamentBest Digger
2001 Isfahan Farhad Zarif
2003 Visakhapatnam Moslem Mohammadizadeh
2007 Kuala Lumpur Shogo Hayase

See also

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