2008 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship

The 2008 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the 9th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2008 Asian Club Championship

Tournament details
Host nation	Kazakhstan
Dates	17–22 July
Teams	8
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Paykan Tehran (4th title)
Tournament awards
MVP	Marat Imangaliyev

Pools composition

The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2007 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship.

Pool A	Pool B
Kazakhstan (Host) Bahrain (4th) Japan Kuwait	Iran (1st) Qatar (3rd) * China United Arab Emirates Indonesia *

* Withdrew, replaced by Kazakhstan B.

Preliminary round

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Almaty	6	3	0	252	211	1.194	9	1	9.000
2	Suntory Sunbirds	5	2	1	270	251	1.076	7	4	1.750
3	Al-Arabi	4	1	2	229	240	0.954	4	6	0.667
4	Al-Najma	3	0	3	179	228	0.785	0	9	0.000

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
17 Jul	16:00	Al-Arabi	1–3	Suntory Sunbirds	19–25	25–20	15–25	31–33		90–103
17 Jul	19:00	Al-Najma	0–3	Almaty	19–25	20–25	19–25			58–75
18 Jul	16:00	Al-Najma	0–3	Al-Arabi	18–25	21–25	23–25			62–75
18 Jul	18:00	Almaty	3–1	Suntory Sunbirds	25–21	25–20	27–29	25–19		102–89
19 Jul	16:00	Suntory Sunbirds	3–0	Al-Najma	25–18	28–26	25–15			78–59
19 Jul	18:00	Al-Arabi	0–3	Almaty	23–25	19–25	22–25			64–75

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Paykan Tehran	6	3	0	249	180	1.383	9	1	9.000
2	Al-Nasr	5	2	1	208	191	1.089	6	3	2.000
3	Henan Tianguan	4	1	2	233	237	0.983	4	6	0.667
4	Esil Petropavlovsk	3	0	3	143	225	0.636	0	9	0.000

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
17 Jul	11:00	Paykan Tehran	3–1	Henan Tianguan	24–26	25–23	25–15	25–20		99–84
17 Jul	14:00	Al-Nasr	3–0	Esil Petropavlovsk	25–15	25–13	25–14			75–42
18 Jul	11:00	Henan Tianguan	3–0	Esil Petropavlovsk	25–17	25–18	25–21			75–56
18 Jul	14:00	Paykan Tehran	3–0	Al-Nasr	25–18	25–19	25–14			75–51
19 Jul	11:00	Al-Nasr	3–0	Henan Tianguan	25–22	32–30	25–22			82–74
19 Jul	14:00	Esil Petropavlovsk	0–3	Paykan Tehran	21–25	9–25	15–25			45–75

Classification 5th–8th

	5th–8th places				5th place
	21 July – Almaty
	Al-Arabi	3
					22 July – Almaty
	Esil	1
					Al-Arabi	1
	21 July – Almaty
					Henan	3
	Henan	3
	Al-Najma	1
					7th place
					22 July – Almaty
					Esil	0
					Al-Najma	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
21 Jul	11:00	Al-Arabi	3–1	Esil Petropavlovsk	23–25	25–20	25–22	25–18		98–85
21 Jul	14:00	Henan Tianguan	3–1	Al-Najma	25–23	25–17	23–25	25–21		98–86

7th place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Jul	11:00	Esil Petropavlovsk	0–3	Al-Najma	19–25	20–25	16–25			55–75

5th place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Jul	14:00	Al-Arabi	1–3	Henan Tianguan	19–25	22–25	25–23	24–26		90–99

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	21 July – Almaty
	Almaty	3
					22 July – Almaty
	Al-Nasr	2
					Almaty	1
	21 July – Almaty
					Paykan	3
	Paykan	3
	Suntory	0
					3rd place
					22 July – Almaty
					Al-Nasr	2
					Suntory	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
21 Jul	16:00	Paykan Tehran	3–0	Suntory Sunbirds	25–20	25–20	25–15			75–55
21 Jul	18:00	Almaty	3–2	Al-Nasr	23–25	25–20	25–19	25–27	15–10	113–101

3rd place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Jul	16:00	Al-Nasr	2–3	Suntory Sunbirds	25–22	16–25	25–20	13–25	13–15	92–107

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Jul	18:00	Almaty	1–3	Paykan Tehran	25–20	26–28	22–25	19–25		92–98

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Paykan Tehran
	Almaty
	Suntory Sunbirds
4	Al-Nasr
5	Henan Tianguan
6	Al-Arabi
7	Al-Najma
8	Esil Petropavlovsk

Awards

• MVP: Marat Imangaliyev (Almaty)
• Best Scorer: Hicham Guemmadi (Al-Nasr)
• Best Server: Ali Kerboua (Al-Nasr)
• Best Spiker: Mohsen Andalib (Paykan)
• Best Blocker: Alireza Nadi (Paykan)
• Best Receiver: Dmitriy Gorbatkov (Almaty)
• Best Setter: Alexey Stepanov (Almaty)
• Best Digger: Kenji Sabato (Suntory)

References

• Asian Volleyball Confederation
• (in Russian) Results