2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup


The 2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Men was the sixth edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation with Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association. The tournament was held in Taipei, Taiwan, from 8 to 15 August 2018.
As hosts, Chinese Taipei automatically participated for the tournament, while the remaining 9 teams, qualified from the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship in Gresik, Indonesia.

Qualification

The ten AVC member associations were participated for the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship. The ten AVC member associations were from five zonal associations, including, Central Asia, East Asia, Oceania, Southeast Asia, and West Asia. Chinese Taipei qualified as host country, and the nine remaining teams qualified from the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

This was the first Asian Cup which used the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format saw teams were drawn into three pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the hosts was assigned into a pool according to their final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship. As the three best ranked teams were drawn in the same Pool A, the next best three contested Pool B, the next best three contested Pool C. Final standing of the 2017 Asian Championship are shown in brackets.

Squads

Venue

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. 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 3–0 or 3–1: 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

Qualified for the [|Quarterfinals]
Qualified for the [|Playoff]

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Final round

5th–9th quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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Awards