2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship will be the 21st edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Japan Volleyball Association (JVA). The tournament will be held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from 12 to 19 September 2021. The tournament also serves as part of Asian qualification for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, with the top two teams including winners and runners-up advancing to the qualifying tournaments.

2021 Asian Men's Championship
バレーボールアジア選手権
日本 2021
Tournament details
Host nation Japan
Dates12–19 September
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)

Host selection

On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship:[1]

Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by

  • 1 team for the host country
  • 10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition
  • 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

For any unused quota, the spot will be reallocated to the next highest ranked nation.

Qualified teams
Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host Country––1 Japan
2019 Asian Championship13–21 September 2019 Tehran10 Iran
 Australia
 South Korea
 Chinese Taipei
 China
 Pakistan
 India
 Qatar
 Kazakhstan
 Thailand1
Central Asia representativesTBDTBD1
Eastern Asia representativesTBDTBD1
Oceania representativesTBDTBD1
Southeastern Asia representativesTBDTBD1
Western Asia representativesTBDTBD1
Total16
1.^ Japan qualified as hosts, is originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked country, Thailand.

Venues
TBD TBD
Chiba, Japan Funabashi, Japan
Chiba Port Arena Funabashi Arena
Capacity: 7,512 Capacity: 4,368

See also

References
  1. "AVC Sports Events Council reviews tasks completed and discusses future challenges". AVC. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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