2017 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship

The 2017 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship was the second edition of the Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). It was held in Ardabil, Iran from 1 to 9 May 2017. The tournament was served as the Asian qualifiers for the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship held in Cairo, Egypt with the top two ranked teams qualifying for the world championship.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2015 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 February 2017. But, Philippines later withdrew. Final standing of the 2015 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st. ==Venue==

Pool standing procedure

• Numbers of matches won • Match points • Sets ratio • Points ratio • Result of the last match between the tied teams Match won 3–0 or 2–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser ==Preliminary round==

Preliminary round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30). Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D ==Second round==

Second round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30). • The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round. Pool E Pool F Pool H ==Classification round==

Classification round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30). Bracket 9th place play-offs 9th place match ==Final round==

Final round

• All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30). Bracket Quarter-finals 5th place play-offs 7th place match 5th place match Semi-finals 3rd place match Final ==Final standing==

Awards

• Most valuable player • : Rahman Taghizadeh • Best setter • : Masaki Oya • Best outside spikers • : Masato Katsuoka • : Esmaeil Mosafer • Best middle blockers • : Lee Hsing-kuo • : Sahand Allahverdian • Best opposite spiker • : Amin Esmaeilnejad • Best libero • : Su Hou-chen ==See also==

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