2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

The 2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the twentieth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Korea Volleyball Association (KVA). The tournament was held in Seoul, South Korea, from 18 to 25 August 2019.^[1] South Korea played host to this event for the first time. The top eight teams of this tournament qualified for the 2020 AVC Women's Volleyball Olympic Qualification Tournament.

2019 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

아시아 여자 배구 선수권 대회 대한민국 2019
Tournament details
Host nation	South Korea
Dates	18–25 August
Teams	13
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Japan (5th title)
Runners-up	Thailand
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	China
Tournament awards
MVP	Mayu Ishikawa
Official website
avc-web.dataproject.com
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Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events were selected by:^[2]

• 1 team for the organizer
• 10 teams based on the rankings of the previous championship
• 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams

Means of qualification	Dates	Hosts	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	South KoreaA
2017 Asian Championship	9–17 August 2017	Biñan–Muntinlupa	10 7	Japan  Thailand  China  Vietnam  Chinese Taipei  Kazakhstan  Iran  Australia  Philippines
SEAZVA representatives	—	—	1+1	IndonesiaC  SingaporeC
CAZVA representatives	—	—	1+1	IndiaD  Sri LankaD
EAZVA representatives	—	—	1	Hong Kong
OZVA representatives	—	—	1	New Zealand
WAZVA representatives	—	—	1 0	—
Total			13

^A South Korea qualified as the hosts and was originally top 10 of previous edition. The spot was reallocated to the 11th-ranked team, Hong Kong.

^B Philippines originally qualified, but declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to the next highest ranked nation, New Zealand.

^C SEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to Indonesia and Singapore.

^D CEAZVA was originally allocated one team, but WAZVA declined to enter. The spot was reallocated to India and Sri Lanka.

Venues

Second and final rounds	South Korea	Preliminary round
Jamsil Arena[2]		Jamsil Students' Gymnasium[2]
Capacity: 11,069		Capacity: 7,500
	Seoul Seoul (South Korea)

Pools composition

Preliminary round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their previous edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the previous ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same zonal association. The draw was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 February 2019.

Ranking from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked third) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–).

Seeded Teams
Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
South Korea (Hosts) (3)  Iran (9)	Japan (1)  Kazakhstan (7)	Thailand (2)  Chinese Taipei (6)	China (4)  Vietnam (5)
Unseeded Teams
Australia (10)  Hong Kong (11)  New Zealand (12)  Sri Lanka (13)  India (–)  Indonesia (–)  Singapore (–)

Draw

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
South Korea	Japan	Thailand	China
Iran	Kazakhstan	Chinese Taipei	Vietnam
Singapore	Australia	New Zealand	Indonesia
Hong Kong	India		Sri Lanka

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

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

• All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	South Korea (H)	2	2	0	6	6	0	MAX	150	86	1.744	Advance to Pool E and 2020 AVC OQT
2	Iran	2	1	1	3	3	3	1.000	115	125	0.920
3	Hong Kong	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	96	150	0.640	Advance to Pool G and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2019. Source: AVC
(H) Host

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Aug	14:00	Iran	0–3	South Korea	17–25	9–25	14–25			40–75	P2
19 Aug	19:00	South Korea	3–0	Hong Kong	25–10	25–14	25–22			75–46	P2
20 Aug	14:00	Hong Kong	0–3	Iran	20–25	15–25	15–25			50–75	P2

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	225	134	1.679	Advance to Pool F
2	Kazakhstan	3	2	1	6	6	4	1.500	231	213	1.085	Advance to Pool F and 2020 AVC OQT
3	Australia	3	1	2	3	3	7	0.429	193	230	0.839	Advance to Pool H and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs
4	India	3	0	3	0	2	9	0.222	192	264	0.727

Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Aug	11:30	Australia	0–3	Kazakhstan	19–25	20–25	21–25			60–75	P2
18 Aug	14:00	Japan	3–0	India	25–12	25–14	25–8			75–34	P2
19 Aug	14:00	Japan	3–0	Kazakhstan	25–19	25–23	25–18			75–60	P2
19 Aug	14:00	India	1–3	Australia	25–18	17–25	16–25	22–25		80–93	P2
20 Aug	14:00	Japan	3–0	Australia	25–11	25–21	25–8			75–40	P2
20 Aug	16:30	Kazakhstan	3–1	India	21–25	25–16	25–19	25–18		96–78	P2

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Thailand	2	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	170	117	1.453	Advance to Pool E and 2020 AVC OQT
2	Chinese Taipei	2	1	1	3	4	3	1.333	155	142	1.092
3	New Zealand	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	84	150	0.560	Advance to Pool G and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Aug	16:30	Thailand	3–1	Chinese Taipei	20–25	25–13	25–22	25–20		95–80	P2
19 Aug	16:30	New Zealand	0–3	Chinese Taipei	12–25	22–25	13–25			47–75	P2
20 Aug	19:00	New Zealand	0–3	Thailand	9–25	13–25	15–25			37–75	P2

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	China	2	2	0	6	6	0	MAX	150	78	1.923	Advance to Pool F
2	Indonesia	2	1	1	3	3	3	1.000	121	119	1.017	Advance to Pool F and 2020 AVC OQT
3	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0	0	6	0.000	76	150	0.507	Advance to Pool H and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Aug	16:30	China	3–0	Sri Lanka	25–11	25–9	25–12			75–32	P2
19 Aug	16:30	China	3–0	Indonesia	25–15	25–19	25–12			75–46	P2
20 Aug	16:30	Indonesia	3–0	Sri Lanka	25–13	25–15	25–16			75–44	P2

Second round

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	South Korea (H)	3	3	0	9	9	1	9.000	248	177	1.401	Semifinals
2	Thailand	3	2	1	6	7	4	1.750	253	228	1.110
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	2	3	4	7	0.571	231	249	0.928	5th–8th semifinals
4	Iran	3	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	169	247	0.684

Updated to match(es) played on 23 August 2019. Source: AVC
(H) Host

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Aug	16:30	South Korea	3–0	Chinese Taipei	25–22	25–13	25–19			75–54	P2
22 Aug	19:00	Thailand	3–0	Iran	25–16	25–21	25–13			75–50	P2
23 Aug	11:30	Iran	1–3	Chinese Taipei	25–22	23–25	19–25	12–25		79–97	P2
23 Aug	16:30	South Korea	3–1	Thailand	25–20	23–25	25–17	25–21		98–83	P2

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	8	9	2	4.500	247	190	1.300	Semifinals
2	Japan	3	2	1	7	8	3	2.667	244	210	1.162
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	2	3	3	6	0.500	185	202	0.916	5th–8th semifinals
4	Indonesia	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	151	225	0.671

Updated to match(es) played on 23 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Aug	11:30	China	3–0	Kazakhstan	25–23	25–12	25–15			75–50	P2
22 Aug	14:00	Japan	3–0	Indonesia	25–19	25–21	25–13			75–53	P2
23 Aug	14:00	Kazakhstan	3–0	Indonesia	25–19	25–15	25–18			75–52	P2
23 Aug	19:00	Japan	2–3	China	25–14	11–25	21–25	25–18	12–15	94–97	P2

Pool G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Hong Kong	1	1	0	3	3	0	MAX	75	52	1.442	9th–12th semifinals and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs
2	New Zealand	1	0	1	0	0	3	0.000	52	75	0.693

Updated to match(es) played on 22 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Aug	14:00	Hong Kong	3–0	New Zealand	25–18	25–15	25–19			75–52	P2

Pool H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Australia	2	2	0	6	6	1	6.000	168	129	1.302	9th–12th semifinals and 2020 AVC OQT playoffs
2	India	2	1	1	2	4	5	0.800	198	178	1.112
3	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	1	2	6	0.333	134	193	0.694	13rd place

Updated to match(es) played on 23 August 2019. Source: AVC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Aug	16:30	Sri Lanka	2–3	India	27–25	13–25	30–28	10–25	5–15	85–118	P2
23 Aug	14:00	Australia	3–0	Sri Lanka	25–17	25–17	25–15			75–49	P2

Final round

9th–12th Classification round

	Ninth place playoffs				Ninth place
	24 August
	Hong Kong	0
					25 August
	India	3
					India	2
	24 August
					Australia	3
	Australia	3
	New Zealand	2
					Eleventh place
					25 August
					Hong Kong	3
					New Zealand	1

9th–12th semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	11:00	Hong Kong	0–3	India	19–25	14–25	22–25			55–75	P2
24 Aug	13:30	Australia	3–2	New Zealand	25–13	25–20	24–26	26–28	15–9	115–96	P2

11th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	11:00	Hong Kong	3–1	New Zealand	16–25	25–13	25–15	25–17		91–70	P2

9th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	13:30	India	2–3	Australia	25–22	25–22	22–25	21–25	12–15	105–109	P2

5th–8th Classification round

	Fifth place playoffs				Fifth place
	24 August
	Chinese Taipei	3
					25 August
	Indonesia	1
					Chinese Taipei	1
	24 August
					Kazakhstan	3
	Kazakhstan	3
	Iran	0
					Seventh place
					25 August
					Indonesia	2
					Iran	3

5th–8th semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	11:00	Chinese Taipei	3–1	Indonesia	25–20	25–18	23–25	28–26		101–89	P2
24 Aug	16:00	Kazakhstan	3–0	Iran	25–17	25–21	26–24			76–62	P2

7th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	16:00	Indonesia	2–3	Iran	27–25	25–18	20–25	13–25	13–15	98–108	P2

5th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	11:00	Chinese Taipei	1–3	Kazakhstan	25–22	19–25	22–25	21–25		87–97	P2

Final four

	Semifinals				Final
	24 August
	South Korea	1
					25 August
	Japan	3
					Japan	3
	24 August
					Thailand	1
	China	1
	Thailand	3
					3rd place match
					25 August
					South Korea	3
					China	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
24 Aug	13:30	South Korea	1–3	Japan	25–22	23–25	24–26	26–28		98–101	P2
24 Aug	16:00	China	1–3	Thailand	25–23	22–25	32–34	23–25		102–107	P2

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	13:30	South Korea	3–0	China	25–21	25–20	25–22			75–63	P2

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	16:00	Japan	3–1	Thailand	25–22	18–25	25–18	25–23		93–88	P2

Final standings

Rank Team  Japan  Thailand  South Korea 4  China 5  Kazakhstan 6  Chinese Taipei 7  Iran 8  Indonesia 9  Australia 10  India 11  Hong Kong 12  New Zealand 13  Sri Lanka Qualified for the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament and 2022 Asian Cup [except India; later Indonesia (Australia replace them) and Kazakhstan withdrew] Already qualified as hosts for the 2020 Summer Olympics Qualified for the 2022 Asian Cup

2019 Asian Women's champions  Japan 5th title Team roster Setter: Nanami Seki, Tamaki Matsui Middle blocker: Mai Irisawa, Nichika Yamada, Shion Hirayama, Kotomi Osaka Outside hitters: Miwako Osanai, Yuri Yoshino, Mayu Ishikawa, Yuki Nishikawa Opposite: Miyu Nakagawa, Haruna Soga Libero: Rena Mizusugi, Minami Nishimura Head Coach: Noboru Aihara

Awards

Most valuable player Mayu Ishikawa Best setter Nootsara Tomkom Best outside spikers Mayu Ishikawa Kim Yeon-koung

Best middle blockers Nichika Yamada Yang Hanyu Best opposite spiker Haruna Soga Best libero Piyanut Pannoy

Qualifying teams for 2020 Asian Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in AVC OQT
South Korea	18 August 2019	7 (1972, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Thailand	18 August 2019	4 (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Chinese Taipei	19 August 2019	3 (1996, 2004, 2012)
Kazakhstan	20 August 2019	2 (2008, 2016)
Iran	20 August 2019	0 (debut)
Indonesia	20 August 2019	0 (debut)
India	24 August 2019	0 (debut)
Australia	24 August 2019	0 (debut)

See also

• 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
• 2019 Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship
• 2019 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship