2018 AVC Women's Challenge Cup

The 2018 AVC Women's Challenge Cup was supposed to be the inaugural edition of the AVC Women's Challenge Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), in that year with the Volleyball Association of Hong Kong, China.^[1][2] But due to unforeseen reasons the tournament was not held.

2018 AVC Women's Challenge Cup

Tournament details
Host nation	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Dates	3–9 December (original schedule)
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1
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Participating teams

Main article: 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

  Entrant teams

The tournament was open to AVC member associations ranked 11th and below or that did not participate in the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. Priority was given to teams that took part in the championship, then to the highest-ranked non-participating teams. The host could admit up to ten teams.^[2]

Entrant teams

The following teams entered the tournament.^[2]

Country	Zone	Notes
			Hong Kong	EAZVA	Host, 2017 Asian Championship – 11th place
Mongolia	EAZVA
Macau	EAZVA
Uzbekistan	CAZVA
Sri Lanka	CAZVA	2017 Asian Championship – 13th place
New Zealand	OZVA	2017 Asian Championship – 12th place
Fiji	OZVA
Malaysia	SEAZVA

Pools composition

The draw results.^[3]

Pool A	Pool B
Hong Kong (Hosts)	Mongolia
Uzbekistan	Macau
Sri Lanka	Malaysia
Fiji	New Zealand

See also

• 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup
• 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup