Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship Explained

Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
Last Season:2024 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
Sport:Volleyball
Inaugural:1997
Teams:16
Continents:Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Champion:
(5th title)
Most Champs:
(9 titles)

The Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship is a biennial competition contested by the under-18 women's national teams of the Asian Volleyball Confederation as part of the Asian Youth Volleyball Championship. The competition broke its biennial design only in 2008, a year after it held its 2007 competition in Kamphaeng Phet, and in 2018, following the holding of a competition in 2017 in Chongqing after the tournament skipped the year 2016. It formerly carried the title Asian Youth Women's Volleyball Championship (in the tournament's 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions), the Asian Youth Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 4th-9th editions), and the Asian Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 10th and 11th editions, with the difference that the 10th edition, like the 9th edition, labeled the tournament as a U17 championship, while the 11th edition touted it as a U18 one, like the 8th edition).

In 2018, the championship's 12th edition now carried the title Asian Women's U17 Volleyball Championship, which, despite its use of the gendered possessive determiner "Women's" for its title, had lowered the age group back to U17. The tournament's age group would be reverted back to U18 in 2022, however, in accordance with decisions made during the March 21–22, 2022, FIVB Board of Administration meeting, which considered it important for the representative women's age-group teams from Asia to compete in the FIVB Age Group Championships in 2023. The board announced the adjustment of all 2022 Age Group Championships to align themselves with the 2023 FIVB age-group categories per gender of Under-19 and Under-21 for both genders, and thus the top 4 teams of the 2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship.

14 of the championship's tournaments have been won by two different national teams. Japan have won nine times, and China have won five times.

Result summary

YearHostwidth=1% rowspan=17 bgcolor=ffffffFinalwidth=1% rowspan=14 bgcolor=ffffffThird place matchwidth=1% rowspan=14 bgcolor=#ffffffTeams
width=14%Championswidth=9%Scorewidth=14%Runners-upwidth=14%Third-placewidth=9%Scorewidth=14%Fourth-place
1997
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Yala
Round-robinRound-robin8
1999
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Singapore
Round-robinRound-robin8
2001
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Trang
3–03–29
2003
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Sisaket
Round-robinRound-robin8
2005
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Mandaue
3–23–29
2007
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Kamphaeng Phet
Round-robinRound-robin8
2008
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Manila
3–03–012
2010
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Kuala Lumpur
3–03–113
2012
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Chengdu
3–13–013
2014
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Nakhon Ratchasima
3–13–013
2017
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Chongqing
3–03–011
2018
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Nakhon Pathom
3–13–112
2020
Nakhon Pathom
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022
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Nakhon Pathom
3–2width=1% rowspan=9 bgcolor=#ffffff3–2width=1% rowspan=9 bgcolor=#ffffff11
2024
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Nakhon Pathom
3–03–013

Teams reaching the top four

TeamWinnersRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
style=background:#FFF68F9 (1997, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2022)3 (1999, 2001, 2024)1 (2005)
style=background:#FFF68F5 (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2024)6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2022)3 (1997, 2007, 2014)
3 (1997, 2005, 2007)3 (2001, 2017, 2022)6 (1999, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)
1 (2014)4 (2003, 2008, 2010, 2018)4 (1997, 2017, 2022, 2024)
1 (2003)
4 (1999, 2005, 2012, 2024)3 (2001, 2003, 2007)

Champions by region

Hosts

Times Hosted Nations Year(s)
8 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024
2 2012, 2017
2005, 2008
1 1999
2010

Participating nations

Legend

1997
(8)

1999
(8)

2001
(9)

2003
(8)

2005
(9)

2007
(8)

2008
(12)

2010
(13)

2012
(13)

2014
(13)

2017
(11)

2018
(12)

2022
(12)

2024
(13)
Years
6th 8th 7th 6th 8th 7th 7th 11th 13th 7th 9th 11th 9th 13
3rd bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=gold1st 14
5th 3rd 4th 4th 3rd 4th 5th 5th 3rd 5th 5th 5th 5th 3rd 14
8th 9th 6th 12th 11th 5
9th 5th 9th 6th 10th 13th 6th 11th 8th 10th 12th 11
6th 1
11th 9th 10th 10th 9th 7th 7th 6th8
bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd 4th bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=silver2nd 13
6th 9th 6th 7th 6th 6th 6th 7th 8
13th 1
6th 7th 8th 11th 4
12th 1
11th 8th 8th 10th 4
6th bgcolor=silver2nd 2
8th 8th 8th 8th 8th 7th 9th 10th8
11th 1
7th 7th 12th 3
bgcolor=silver2nd 4th 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd 4th 4th 4th 4th 3rd 4th 3rd 5th13
7th 12th 13th 3
4th 5th 5th 3rd 5th 5th 3rd 3rd 5th bgcolor=silver2nd 4th 3rd 4th 4th 14
10th 8th 8th3
7th 10th 9th 12th 4

Debut of teams

YearDebutantsTotal
19978
19991
20012
20031
20051
20071
20082
20101
20122
2014None0
20172
2018None0
2022
20241

Awards

Most Valuable Player

TournamentMost Valuable Player
1997 Yala Midori Takahashi
2001 Trang Huang Huiping
2003 Sisaket Wang Yimei
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Miyu Nagaoka
2008 Manila Shiori Murata
2010 Kuala Lumpur Mari Horikawa
2012 Chengdu Sarina Koga
Airi Miyabe
2017 Chongqing Nishikawa Yuki
2018 Nakhon Pathom Nishikawa Yoshino
2022 Nakhon Pathom Sae Omori
2024 Nakhon Pathom Wang Shuming

Best Outside Spikers

TournamentBest Outside Spikers
Ko Minji
Chatchu-on Moksri
2017 Chongqing Park Hyemin
Nishikawa Yuki
2018 Nakhon Pathom Nishikawa Yoshino
Zhou Yetong
2022 Nakhon Pathom Sae Omori
Chen Xinyue
2024 Nakhon Pathom Zhai Yurui
Chen Pinyu

Best Opposite Spiker

TournamentBest Opposite Spiker
Pimpichaya Kokram
2017 Chongqing Sun Xiaoxuan
2018 Nakhon Pathom Manami Koyama
2022 Nakhon Pathom Wang Yindi
2024 Nakhon Pathom Chugangi Rion

Best Setter

TournamentBest Setter
2001 Trang Zhang Qian
2003 Sisaket Kamonporn Sukmak
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Si Eun-mi
2008 Manila Chisato Mitsuyama
2010 Kuala Lumpur Yukiko Yanagidani
2012 Chengdu Airi Tahara
Natthanicha Jaisaen
2017 Chongqing Zhang Zihan
2018 Nakhon Pathom Supatcha Kamtalaksa
2022 Nakhon Pathom Yoshida Sanae
2024 Nakhon Pathom Tanyama Tsubaki

Best Middle Blockers

TournamentBest Middle Blockers
Li Yingying
Miyu Nakagawa
2017 Chongqing Mao Junyi
Lee Juah
2018 Nakhon Pathom Wu Mengjie
Madoka Kashimura
2022 Nakhon Pathom Shan Linqian
Kim Sebeen
2024 Nakhon Pathom Wang Aoqian
Sasitorn Jatta

Best Libero

TournamentBest Libero
2008 Manila Sumiko Mori
2010 Kuala Lumpur Sumiko Mori
2012 Chengdu Lin Miao-hua
Kanoha Kagamihara
2017 Chongqing Mizusugi Rena
2018 Nakhon Pathom Jidapa Nahuanong
2022 Nakhon Pathom Rin Nishikawa
2024 Nakhon Pathom Song Jiayi

Former awards

Best Scorer

TournamentBest Scorer
1997 Yala Mari Ochiai
2001 Trang Huang Huiping
2003 Sisaket Saymai Paladsrichuay
2005 Mandaue Kim Yeon-Koung
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Lee Yeon-Ju
2008 Manila Yang Jie
2010 Kuala Lumpur Park Jeong-ah
2012 Chengdu Sarina Koga

Best Spiker

TournamentBest Spiker
1997 Yala Lee Yun-hui
2001 Trang Huang Huiping
2003 Sisaket Kim Song-ok
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Miyu Nagaoka
2008 Manila Shiori Murata
2010 Kuala Lumpur Fumika Moriya
2012 Chengdu Hu Mingyuan

Best Server

TournamentBest Server
1997 Yala Tian Jia
2001 Trang Lu Yan
2003 Sisaket Ma Xiaoying
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Yuki Kawai
2008 Manila Kim Mi-yeon
2010 Kuala Lumpur Liu Mingjuan
2012 Chengdu Chen Tzu-ya

Best Blocker

TournamentBest Blocker
1997 Yala Rattana Sanguanrum
2001 Trang Huang Huiping
2003 Sisaket Betsy Thankachen
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Chen Shih-ting
2008 Manila Wang Huimin
2010 Kuala Lumpur Liu Yanhan
2012 Chengdu Yuan Xinyue

Best Receiver

TournamentBest Receiver
2003 Sisaket Sin Yong-sun
2005 Mandaue Kim Yeon-Koung
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Airi Kawahara

Best Digger

TournamentBest Digger
2003 Sisaket Suvipriew Bamrung
2007 Kamphaeng Phet Kotoe Inoue

See also