Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship Explained

Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship
Last Season:2024 Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship
Sport:Volleyball
Inaugural:1980
Continents:Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Champion:
(13th title)
Most Champs:
(13 titles)

The Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under 20 women's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Tournaments have been awarded every two years since 1980. The top four teams qualified for the FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship. The current champion is China, which won its 13th title at the 2024 tournament.

Formerly, the championship was entitled Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, but in accordance with the FIVB Board of Administration Meeting on 21–22 March 2022, which announced to align the FIVB age group categories per gender to Under-19 and Under-21 for both genders, the adjustment of 2022 Age Group Championships has also been considered important for representative women’s age group teams from Asia to compete in the FIVB Age Group Championships in 2023.

The 20 Asian Championship tournaments have been won by three different national teams: China have won twelve times, Japan with seven titles, and South Korea with one title.

Results summary

YearHostwidth=1% rowspan=24 bgcolor=#ffffffFinalwidth=1% rowspan=21 bgcolor=#ffffffThird place matchwidth=1% rowspan=21 bgcolor=#ffffffTeams
width=14%Championswidth=9%Scorewidth=14%Runners-upwidth=14%Third-placewidth=9%Scorewidth=14%Fourth-place
1980
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Seoul
Round-robinRound-robin6
1984
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Canberra
6
1986
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Bangkok
3–23–09
1988
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Jakarta
3–110
1990
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Chiang Mai
14
1992
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Kuala Lumpur
3–03–013
1994
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Manila
10
1996
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Chiang Mai
Round-robinRound-robin11
1998
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Trang
3–03–110
2000
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Dagupan
Round-robinRound-robin8
2002
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Ho Chi Minh City
12
2004
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Colombo
3–03–09
2006
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Nakhon Ratchasima
3–13–112
2008
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Taipei
3–03–011
2010
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Ho Chi Minh City
3–03–015
2012
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Nakhon Pathom / Ratchaburi
3–03–216
2014
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Taipei
3–13–215
2016
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Nakhon Ratchasima
3–23–115
2018
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Bắc Ninh
3–03–115
2020
Chongqing
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022
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Nur Sultan
3–0width=1% rowspan=8 bgcolor=#ffffff3–2width=1% rowspan=8 bgcolor=#ffffff9
2024
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Jiangmen
3–23–112

Teams reaching the top four

TeamWinnersRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
style=background:#FFF68F13 (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016,2024)5 (1984, 1986, 1988, 2018, 2022)2 (1990, 2008)
style=background:#FFF68F7 (1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2008, 2018, 2022)8 (1980, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2016)3 (1998, 2010, 2012)
style=background:#FFF68F1 (1980)4 (1990, 1992, 1998, 2010)9 (1984, 1986, 1988, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2014, 2024)3 (2002, 2008, 2022)
2 (2008, 2012)3 (1992, 2002, 2006)6 (1984, 1990, 1994, 1996, 2004, 2018)
1 (2002)3 (2016, 2018, 2022)7 (1986, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014)
1 (1980)
1 (1980)
1 (1988)
1 (1992)
1 (2016)

Champions by region

Hosts

Times Hosted Nations Year(s)
7 1986, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2012, 2016
3 2002, 2010, 2018
21994, 2000
2008, 2014
11980
1984
1988
1992
2004
2022
2024

Participating nations

Legend

1980
(6)

1984
(6)

1986
(9)

1988
(10)

1990
(14)

1992
(13)

1994
(10)

1996
(11)

1998
(10)

2000
(8)

2002
(12)

2004
(9)

2006
(12)

2008
(11)

2010
(15)

2012
(16)

2014
(15)

2016
(15)

2018
(15)

2022
(9)

2024
(12)
Total
5th 5th 9th 7th 7th 4th 6th 7th 6th 11th 6th 7th 9th 11th 9th 13th 11th 10th 11th 19
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4th 5th 5th 4th 3rd 4th 4th 5th 5th 3rd 4th 3rd 2nd 5th bgcolor=silver2nd 5th 6th 4th 5th 6th 20
13th 1
14th 1
6th 12th 11th 8th 11th 14th 11th 11th 13th 12th 12th 11
3rd 6th 8th 9th 8th 6th 8th 7th 10th 10th 10th 6th 6th 8th 11th7th 8th 17
4th 8th 9th 9th 9th 9th 6th 7th 8
9th 8th 12th 9th 8th 6th 9th 7
bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=gold1st 5th bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd 5th bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=gold1st 3rd 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=silver2nd 21
Balign=left7th 7th 7th 6th 7th 7th 7th 7th8th 7th 10
16th 1
14th 12th 14th 3
11th 7th 10th 8th 13th 5
9th 1
14th 1
6th 10th 10th 12th 10th 8th 8th 12th 12th 9th 14th 9th10th 13
5th 6th 2
10th 7th 8th 8th 12th 10th 6
4th 7th 9th 9th 11th 5
1st 3rd 3rd 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver2nd 3rd 3rd bgcolor=silver2nd 3rd 4th 3rd 5th 4th bgcolor=silver2nd 5th 3rd 5th 5th4th 3rd21
8th 13th 13th 10th 10th 8th 12th 11th 15th 13th 8th 15th 15th 13
4th 6th 6th 6th 5th 5th 4th 4th bgcolor=silver2nd 5th 4th 5th 4th 4th 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 4th 19
15th 15th 2
9th 1
9th 7th 6th 6th 8th 10th 10th 4th 6th 5th10

Debut of teams

YearDebutantsTotal
19806
19843
19862
19881
19903
19921
1994None0
19961
1998None0
20001
2002None0
20041
2006None0
2008
20102
20123
20141
2016None0
2018
20221

Awards

Most Valuable Player

align=center 2006 Yan Ni
align=center 2008 Yuki Kawai
align=center 2010 Liu Yanhan
align=center 2012 Zhu Ting
align=center 2014 Du Qingqing
align=center Wu Han
align=center 2018 Kanon Sonoda

Best Opposite Spiker

align=center 2014 Kaori Mabashi
align=center Pimpichaya Kokram
align=center 2018 Xu Luyao

Best Outside Spikers

align=center rowspan=22014 Lee Jae-yeong
Du Qingqing
align=center rowspan=2 Cai Xiaoqing
Reina Tokoku
align=center rowspan=22018 Thanacha Sooksod
Ayumi Yoshida

Best Middle Blockers

align=center rowspan=22014 Hu Mingyuan
Zhang Qian
align=center rowspan=2 Xie Xing
Yang Hanyu
align=center rowspan=22018 Wen Yi-chin
Jiao Dian

Best Setter

align=center 2006 Miho Watanabe
align=center 2008 Yuki Kawai
align=center 2010 Wu Bei
align=center 2012 Yuki Yamagami
align=center 2014 Lee Da-yeong
align=center Tamaki Matsui
align=center 2018 Kanon Sonoda

Best Libero

align=center 2000 Megumi Kawashima
align=center 2006 Wang Qian
align=center 2008 Kotoe Inoue
align=center 2010 Sumiko Mori
align=center 2012 Huang Shih-ting
align=center 2014 Park Hea-mi
align=center Yukako Yasui
align=center 2018 Sayaka Daikuzono

Former awards

Best Scorer

TournamentBest Scorer
Wu Shu-fen
2008 Taipei Chen Wan-ting
2010 Ho Chi Minh City Park Jeong-ah
2012 Nakhon Pathom Kuttika Kaewpin

Best Spiker

TournamentBest Scorer
Chen Yao
2008 Taipei Chen Shih-ting
2010 Ho Chi Minh City Mari Horikawa
2012 Nakhon Pathom Zhu Ting

Best Server

TournamentBest Server
2000 Dagupan Ai Otomo
Fan Linlin
2008 Taipei Joo Yea-na
2010 Ho Chi Minh City Mari Horikawa
2012 Nakhon Pathom Tang Ningya

Best Blocker

TournamentBest Scorer
Yan Ni
2008 Taipei Yang Junjing
2010 Ho Chi Minh City Yang Zhou
2012 Nakhon Pathom Zheng Yixin

See also

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