The 2021 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship was the 21st edition of the

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, an annual international

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club tournament organized by the

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(AVC) with

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(TVA). The tournament was held in

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, from 1 to 7 October 2021. The winner of the tournament qualified to

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. The last edition of the tournament was held in

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. The 2020 edition, due to be hosted in

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. The hosting duties was moved to Thailand before the tournament was cancelled due to the

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Qualification

Following the AVC regulations, the maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by: *1 team for the host country *10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition *5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed) Due to anticipated difficulty for national federations to field teams due to the

, the AVC allowed two clubs from the same national federation to participate in the case that there are less than 8 federations enter the tournament. In the case of less than 16 entrants, the host is entitled to enter two teams. Only four national federations entered with Iran the only country to have one representative club.

Qualified associations

: Thailand as host country is entitled to enter two teams if they are less than 16 entrants. Their two berths are credited to have been attained as host nation ''and'' second placers in the 2019 championships. : Under tournament regulations the top ten associations are reserved a berth. Only two from the ten participating associations in the 2019 championship elected to enter a team. : National federations other than the host are entitled to send two teams if there are less than 8 entrants. Philippines and Kazakhstan, who also qualified a berth as the fourth-best finishing team in the 2019 edition, elected to send two teams.

Squads

Participating teams

The following teams were entered for the tournament. : The PNVF fielded the Philippine national team as a club under the Rebisco name. : The identity of the team is not known at the time of the draw and was listed as "PVL". The PNVF has invited the

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to send its best finishing team in the 2021 Open Conference but all teams declined to enter. The PNVF will field a second team composing of national team players instead. The second team was named Team Choco Mucho.

Draw

The draw was held on 3 August 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Venues

Matches will be held at the

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, an indoor arena within the

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Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+07:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+07:00).

Quarterfinals

5th–7th semifinals

Semifinals

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : (

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) *Best Setter : ( Nakhon Ratchasima QminC) *Best Outside Spikers : (

) : ( Nakhon Ratchasima QminC) *Best Middle Blockers : ( Supreme Chonburi) : ( Saipa Tehran) *Best Opposite Spiker : (

) *Best Libero : (

)

References

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