2023 Asian Boys' U16Volleyball Championship
# 2023 Asian Boys' U16Volleyball Championship

The 2023 Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship is the first edition of the Asian Boys' U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of Uzbekistan (UZBV). The tournament is held in Tashkent, Tehran, Uzbekistan from 22 to 29 July 2023.

This tournament is served as qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Players must be born on or after January 1, 2008.

## Pools composition

The overview of pools was released on 16 March 2023.

| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | Pool D |
| - | - | - | - |
| Uzbekistan (Hosts) | Bahrain* | Saudi Arabia | Kuwait |
| Kazakhstan | India* | Iran | Pakistan |
| Hong Kong | Thailand | Japan | Mongolia |
| — | Australia | China | Chinese Taipei |

* Bahrain and India withdrew from the tournament.

## Format

Preliminary round: All teams are divided into 4 pools. Robin round to classify ranking. Top 2 teams advance to Classification round of 1st - 8th places. The bottom teams to enter to Classification round of 9th - 12th.

Classification round:The top 2 teams from Pool A & Pool C will form Pool E and The top 2 teams from Pool B & Pool D will form Pool F. The top 2 teams of each pool will advance to semi-final.

Final round: Knockout stage.

## Venue

| Assigned matches | Assigned matches |
| - | - |
| Tashkent, Uzbekistan ||
| Main Hall | JAR |
| Capacity: unknown ||

## Pool standing procedure

* Number of Victories
* Match points
* Set quotient
* Points quotient
* If the tie continues as per the point quotient between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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 Uzbekistan time (UTC+05:00).

## Final standing

* Rank
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* Qualified for the 2024 World Boys Championship

## Awards

* Most valuable player
* Best setter
* Best outside hitters
* Best middle blockers
* Best opposite spiker
* Best libero
