Boys' Asian U18 Volleyball Championship

The Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship, formerly known as the Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship, is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under 19 men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Tournaments have been awarded every two years since 1997. The top four teams qualified for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship. The current champion is Japan, which won its third title at the 2022 tournament.

Boys' Asian U18 Volleyball Championship
Most recent season or competition: 2022 Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship
Sport	Volleyball
Founded	1997
Inaugural season	1997
No. of teams	16 (Finals)
Continent	Asia and Oceania (AVC)
Most recent champion(s)	Japan (3rd title)
Most titles	Iran (7 titles)
TV partner(s)	SMMTV
Official website	Asian Volleyball Confederation

The 13 Asian Championship tournaments have been won by five different national teams. Iran have won seven times and Japan have won three times. The other Asian Championship winners are Chinese Taipei, South Korea and India, with one title each.

The 2022 Asian Championship took place in Tehran, Iran.

Result summary edit

Year	Host	Final			3rd place match			Teams
Year	Host	Champions	Score	Runners-up	3rd place	Score	4th place	Teams
1997 Details	Baguio	Chinese Taipei	Round-robin	South Korea	Japan	Round-robin	China	8
1999 Details	Chiayi	South Korea	Round-robin	Japan	China	Round-robin	Saudi Arabia	8
2001 Details	Isfahan	Iran	3–1	South Korea	Chinese Taipei	3–2	North Korea	10
2003 Details	Visakhapatnam	India	3–1	Iran	North Korea	3–0	China	9
2005 Details	Tehran	Iran	3–0	South Korea	India	3–0	Chinese Taipei	8
2007 Details	Kuala Lumpur	Iran	3–0	India	China	3–2	South Korea	11
2008 Details	Colombo	Iran	3–0	Japan	India	3–2	China	11
2010 Details	Tehran	Iran	3–2	China	South Korea	3–1	India	10
2012 Details	Tehran	Iran	3–2	China	Japan	3–2	South Korea	11
2014 Details	Colombo	Iran	3–0	Japan	China	3–1	Chinese Taipei	15
2017 Details	Naypyidaw	Japan	3–0	South Korea	China	3–1	Iran	11
2018 Details	Tabriz	Japan	3–1	South Korea	Iran	3–1	Chinese Taipei	17
2020 Details	Shiraz	Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Details	Tehran	Japan	3–0	Iran	India	3–2	South Korea	8

Teams reaching the top four edit

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Iran	7 (2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)	2 (2003, 2022)	1 (2018)	1 (2017)
Japan	3 (2017, 2018, 2022)	3 (1999, 2008, 2014)	2 (1997, 2012)
South Korea	1 (1999)	5 (1997, 2001, 2005, 2017, 2018)	1 (2010)	3 (2007, 2012, 2022)
India	1 (2003)	1 (2007)	3 (2005, 2008, 2022)	1 (2010)
Chinese Taipei	1 (1997)		1 (2001)	3 (2005, 2014, 2018)
China		2 (2010, 2012)	4 (1999, 2007, 2014, 2017)	3 (1997, 2003, 2008)
North Korea			1 (2003)	1 (2001)
Saudi Arabia				1 (1999)

Champions by region edit

Federation (Region)	Champion(s)	Number
CAZVA (Central Asia)	Iran (7), India (1)	8 titles
EAZVA (East Asia)	Japan (3), Chinese Taipei (1), South Korea (1)	5 titles

Hosts edit

Times Hosted	Nations	Year(s)
6	Iran	2001, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2018, ~~2020~~, 2022
2	Sri Lanka	2008, 2014
1	Taiwan	1999
	India	2003
	Malaysia	2007
	Myanmar	2017
	Philippines	1997

Medal summary edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran	7	2	1	10
2	Japan	3	3	2	8
3	South Korea	1	5	1	7
4	India	1	1	3	5
5	Chinese Taipei	1	0	1	2
6	China	0	2	4	6
7	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		13	13	13	39

Participating nations edit

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
• – Did not enter / Did not qualify
– Hosts
Q – Qualified for the forthcoming tournament

Nation	1997 (8)	1999 (8)	2001 (10)	2003 (9)	2005 (8)	2007 (11)	2008 (11)	2010 (10)	2012 (11)	2014 (15)	2017 (11)	2018 (17)	2022 (8)	Total
Australia	6th	7th	10th	6th	8th	7th	8th	9th	9th	8th	7th	8th	•	12
Bahrain	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9th	•	•	•	1
Bangladesh	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10th	•	•	1
China	4th	3rd	5th	4th	6th	3rd	4th	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd	6th	5th	13
Chinese Taipei	1st	5th	3rd	8th	4th	6th	5th	6th	5th	4th	5th	4th	6th	13
Hong Kong	•	•	•	•	•	11th	•	•	•	13th	11th	17th	•	4
India	•	•	7th	1st	3rd	2nd	3rd	4th	7th	7th	•	7th	3rd	10
Iran	•	•	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	4th	3rd	2nd	11
Japan	3rd	2nd	6th	•	5th	5th	2nd	5th	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	12
Kazakhstan	•	•	•	•	•	•	9th	10th	10th	9th	•	12th	×	5
Kuwait	•	•	•	•	•	•	10th	•	•	•	•	•	8th	2
Malaysia	•	•	•	•	•	8th	•	•	•	•	•	10th	•	2
Maldives	•	•	•	•	•	•	11t	•	•	14th	•	•	•	2
Myanmar	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8th	•	•	1
New Zealand	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	14th	•	1
North Korea	•	•	4th	3rd	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	2
Oman	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13th	•	1
Pakistan	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	11th	•	1
Philippines	8th	8th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	2
Qatar	•	•	8th	7th	•	•	•	•	•	15th	•	16th	•	4
Saudi Arabia	•	4th	9th	•	•	•	•	•	•	11th	•	•	•	3
South Korea	2nd	1st	2nd	9th	2nd	4th	•	3rd	4th	6th	2nd	2nd	4th	12
Sri Lanka	•	•	•	•	•	10th	7th	8th	6th	5th	9th	9th	•	7
Thailand	5th	6th	•	5th	7th	9th	6th	7th	8th	•	6th	5th	7th	11
Turkmenistan	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	11th	12th	•	15th	•	3
United Arab Emirates	7th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1

Debut of teams edit

Year	Debutants	Total
1997	Australia	8
	China
	Chinese Taipei
	Japan
	Philippines
	South Korea
	Thailand
	United Arab Emirates
1999	Saudi Arabia	1
2001	India	4
	Iran
	North Korea
	Qatar
2003	None	0
2005	None	0
2007	Hong Kong	3
	Malaysia
	Sri Lanka
2008	Kazakhstan	3
	Kuwait
	Maldives
2010	None	0
2012	Turkmenistan	1
2014	Bahrain	1
2017	Bangladesh	2
2017	Myanmar	2
2018	New Zealand	3
	Oman
	Pakistan
2022	None	0

Awards edit

Most Valuable Player edit

Tournament	Most Valuable Player
2001 Isfahan	Mohammad Soleimani
2003 Visakhapatnam	Sanjay Kumar
2005 Tehran	Saber Narimannejad
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Mojtaba Shaban
2008 Colombo	Farhad Salafzoun
2010 Tehran	Ramin Khani
2012 Tehran	Akbar Valaei
2014 Colombo	Rasoul Aghchehli
2017 Naypyidaw	Kento Miyaura
2018 Tabriz	Taito Mizumachi
2022 Tehran	Hiroki Bito

Best Outside Spikers edit

Tournament	Best Opposite Spiker
2014 Colombo	Amir Hossein Esfandiar
2014 Colombo	Jan Min-han
2017 Naypyidaw	Morteza Sharifi
2017 Naypyidaw	Mahiro Saeki
2018 Tabriz	Chang Hung-yeh
2018 Tabriz	Park Seung-su
2022 Tehran	Shunta Ono
2022 Tehran	S.Matin Hosseini

Best Opposite Spiker edit

Tournament	Best Opposite Spiker
2014 Colombo	Rasoul Aghchehli
2017 Naypyidaw	Im Dong-hyeok
2018 Tabriz	Bardia Saadat
2022 Tehran	Aryan Baliyan

Best Setter edit

Tournament	Best Setter
2001 Isfahan	Song Byung-il
2003 Visakhapatnam	Ramaswami Kamraj
2005 Tehran	Kim Gwang-guk
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Cheng Li-sheng
2008 Colombo	Kosuke Tomonaga
2010 Tehran	Lee Min-gyu
2012 Tehran	Yu Yaochen
2014 Colombo	Javad Karimi
2017 Naypyidaw	Choi Ik-je
2018 Tabriz	Taiga Itoyama
2022 Tehran	Emran Kook Jili

Best Middle Blockers edit

Tournament	Best Middle Blockers
2014 Colombo	Ali Asghar Mojarad
2014 Colombo	Tao Zixuan
2017 Naypyidaw	Wang Dongchen
2017 Naypyidaw	Shunichiro Sato
2018 Tabriz	Alireza Abdollahi
2018 Tabriz	Riku Ito
2022 Tehran	Taha Behboudnia
2022 Tehran	Kush Singh

Best Libero edit

Tournament	Best Libero
2005 Tehran	Abdolreza Alizadeh
2008 Colombo	Taiki Tsuruda
2010 Tehran	Oh Jae-seong
2012 Tehran	Lee Sang-uk
2014 Colombo	Tomohiro Horie
2017 Naypyidaw	Park Kyeong-min
2018 Tabriz	Jang Ji-won
2022 Tehran	Sena Kameoka

Former awards edit

Best Scorer edit

Tournament	Best Scorer
2001 Isfahan	Kang Dong-jin
2003 Visakhapatnam	Mohammad Soleimani
2005 Tehran	Mansour Zadvan
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Mojtaba Shaban
2008 Colombo	Pouria Fayazi
2010 Tehran	Anup D'Costa
2012 Tehran	Yuki Ishikawa

Best Spiker edit

Tournament	Best Spiker
2001 Isfahan	Mohammad Soleimani
2003 Visakhapatnam	Pak Yong-nam
2005 Tehran	Kang Young-jun
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Chen Ping
2008 Colombo	Dai Qingyao
2010 Tehran	Jin Seong-tae
2012 Tehran	Zhang Zhejia

Best Server edit

Tournament	Best Server
2001 Isfahan	Kang Dong-jin
2003 Visakhapatnam	Arash Sadeghiani
2005 Tehran	Arash Keshavarzi
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Chen Ping
2008 Colombo	Song Jianwei
2010 Tehran	Song Jianwei
2012 Tehran	Javad Hekmati

Best Blocker edit

Tournament	Best Blocker
2001 Isfahan	Davoud Moghbeli
2003 Visakhapatnam	Sanjay Kumar
2005 Tehran	Guttikonda Pradeep
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Aidan Zingel
2008 Colombo	Saman Faezi
2010 Tehran	Armin Sadeghiani
2012 Tehran	Sahand Allahverdian

Best Receiver edit

Tournament	Best Receiver
2001 Isfahan	Liu Hsiung
2003 Visakhapatnam	P. S. Srikanth
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Chien Wei-lun

Best Digger edit

Tournament	Best Digger
2001 Isfahan	Farhad Zarif
2003 Visakhapatnam	Moslem Mohammadizadeh
2007 Kuala Lumpur	Shogo Hayase

External links edit

Official AVC website