The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the eighteenth staging of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Th ...

, a biennial international

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

tournament organised by the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...

(AVC) with

Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (I.R.I.V.F.) is the governing body for Volleyball in Iran. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of FIVB. It was a part of Islamic Republic of Iran Basketball Federation, Iranian Basketba ...

(IRIVF). The tournament was held in

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, Iran from 31 July to 8 August 2015.

Qualification

If there are not more than 16 teams, all teams will compete in the tournament.
If there are more than 16 teams, participating teams are:
– The host nation
– Top 10 ranked teams from the previous edition
– Representatives from each of the five Asian Volleyball Confederation Zonal Associations There are 17 teams applied for the competition. But all teams can participate in the tournament.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the

serpentine system The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...

according to their

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as of 22 September 2014. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn in

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on 22 April 2015. But, Saudi Arabia later withdrew and Oman moved from pool A to C to balance the number of teams in each pool. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 10th.

Venues

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Points ratio # Sets ratio # 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

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( UTC+04:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round

*All times are

( 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 G

Pool H

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+04:30).

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *:

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*Best setter *:

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*Best outside spikers *: Purya Fayazi *:

Hamzeh Zarini Hamzeh Zarini (, born October 18, 1985, in Eslamshahr) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as an outside spiker for the national team and Haraz Amol club. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Zarini two named Most Valuable Play ...

*Best middle blockers *: Zhang Zhejia *:

Mostafa Sharifat Mostafa Sharifat (, born 16 September 1987 in Ahvaz) is an Iranian volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for the Iran men's national volleyball team, Iran national team. He competed at the 2015 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, 2015 ...

*Best opposite spiker *: Farhad Piroutpour *Best libero *:

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References

External links

Official websiteOrganizer's websiteRegulationsSquads
{{Portal bar, Volleyball, Iran, Sports Asian Men's Volleyball Championship 2015 in Iranian sport

International volleyball competitions hosted by Iran Sport in Tehran

Qualification

Pools composition

Venues

Pool standing procedure

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Classification round

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

13th–16th places

13th–16th semifinals

15th place match

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th–12th semifinals

11th place match

9th place match

Final eight

Quarterfinals

5th–8th semifinals

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

See also

References

External links