2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
The 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the twenty-first staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation with Japan Volleyball Association. The tournament was held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from 12 to 19 September 2021.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.
Host selection
On 11 February 2020, the AVC announced that only one national federation have applied two bids to organize 2021 Asian Championship:- ''''''
Qualification
Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all events will be selected by- team for the host country
- teams based on the final standing of the previous edition
- teams from each zones
Zonal qualification
Only the Central Asian qualification tournament was held which was contested by Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.- Time is Sri Lanka Standard Time.
Pools composition
Preliminary round
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2019 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2019 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 16 July 2021. Final standings of the 2019 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 3rd.;Pots
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| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | Pool D |
Pool standing procedure
- Number of matches won
- Match points
- Sets ratio
- Points ratio
- If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Preliminary round
- All times are Japan Standard Time.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Classification round
- All times are Japan Standard Time.
- 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 G
Pool H
Final round
- All times are Japan Standard Time.
13th–16th places
13th–16th semifinals
15th place match
13th place match
9th–12th places
9th–12th semifinals
11th place match
9th place match
5th–8th places
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final four
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
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| Qualified for the 2022 World Championship | |
| Qualified for the 2022 World Championship via the FIVB World Ranking |
Awards
- Most valuable player
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- Best setter
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- Best outside spikers
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- Best middle blockers
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- Best opposite spiker
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- Best libero
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