2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship


The 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was held from 9 to 17 August 2017. Matches were held in two cities: at the Alonte Sports Arena in Biñan, Laguna and Muntinlupa Sports Complex in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila. Japan won the championship defeating Thailand and South Korea won the bronze medal over China. Japanese Risa Shinnabe was awarded Most Valuable Player.

Qualification

The fourteen AVC member associations were submit their women's national team to the 2017 Asian Volleyball Championship. The fourteen AVC member associations were from four zonal associations, including, Central Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and Southeast Asia. While West Asian teams did not submit any their women's national team.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament. Maldives qualified for the first tournament. New Zealand returned to qualified after 2007 edition.
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The tournament is played in three stages. In the first stage, the fourteen participants are divided in four groups. A single round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams' group position.
The two best teams of each group progress to the second stage, the eight finalist are divided in two groups of four each. The pool standing will use 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.
The third stage of the tournament consists of a single-elimination, with winners advancing to the next round until the final round.

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. 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

Pools composition

Preliminary round

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2015 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The host country and the top 7 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system. The 7 remaining teams were drawn on 27 February 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by.

Second round

Squads

Preliminary round

Thirteenth match

Ninth place playoffs

Eleventh match

Ninth place match

Championship round

Quarterfinals

Fifth place playoffs

Semifinals

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Third place match

Final

Final standings

RankTeam
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14



Team Roster

Kotoe Inoue, Sarina Koga, Nana Iwasaka, Risa Shinnabe, Erika Araki, Rika Nomoto, Haruyo Shimamura, Koyomi Tominaga, Yurie Nabeya, Miya Sato, Mai Okumura, Risa Ishii, Mami Uchiseto, Mako Kobata

Head Coach: Kumi Nakada

Awards