2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup
# 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup

The 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup was supposed to be the inaugural edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Association of Hong Kong, China. But due to unforeseen reasons the tournament did not held.

## Qualification

The AVC members associations, some teams were participated for the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The AVC members associations were from five zonal associations, including, Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (3 team), Oceania (2 team), Southeastern Asia (1 team).

### Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

| Means of qualification | Births | Qualified |
| - | - | - |
| Host country | 1 | Hong Kong |
| Eastern Asian teams | 2 | Mongolia |
| Eastern Asian teams | 2 | Macau |
| Central Asian teams | 2 | Uzbekistan |
| Central Asian teams | 2 | Sri Lanka |
| Oceanian teams | 2 | New Zealand |
| Oceanian teams | 2 | Fiji |
| Southeast Asian teams | 1 | Malaysia |
| Total 8 |||

## Pools composition

The draw results.

| Pool A | Pool B |
| - | - |
| Hong Kong (1) | Mongolia |
| Uzbekistan | Macau |
| Sri Lanka | Malaysia |
| Fiji | New Zealand |

## Preliminary round

### Pool standing procedure

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

### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 4 | Fiji | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2 | Macau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 3 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 4 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |

## Final round

### Classification round

| Fifth semi-finals | Fifth semi-finals | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| - | - | - | - |
| August | August |
| | | August | August |
| August | August | | |
| | | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | August | August |

### Championship round

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| August | August | | |
| B1Winners Pool B | | | |
| B1Winners Pool B | | August | August | |
| A4Fourth-placed team Pool A | | August | August |
| August | August | | | |
| A2Runners-up team Pool A | | | |
| A2Runners-up team Pool A | | | | August | August |
| B3 Third-placed team Pool B | | | | August | August |
| August | August | | | | |
| A1Winners Pool A | | | | | |
| A1Winners Pool A | | August | August | | |
| B4Fourth-placed team Pool B | | August | August | | |
| August | August | | | | |
| August | August | | | Third place | Third place |
| B2Runners-up team Pool B | | | | Third place | Third place |
| B2Runners-up team Pool B | | | | August | August |
| A3 Third-placed team Pool A | | | | August | August |

## Final standing

Key :

* Promoted to AVC Cup
* Rank
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
