2016 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup

The 2016 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2016 AVC Cup for Men was the fifth edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). The tournament was held at Nakhon Pathom Gymansium, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand from 22 to 28 September 2016.

Pools composition
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship. All teams not seeded were drawn. Final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 8th.

* replaced Qatar, who withdrew from the tournament.

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

Preliminary round

 * All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

Final round

 * All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * Alireza Behboudi
 * Best setter
 * 🇯🇵 Shohei Yamaguchi
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇨🇳 Liu Libin
 * Rahman Davoudi
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇨🇳 Miao Ruantong
 * Masoud Gholami
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇨🇳 Jiang Chuan
 * Best libero
 * Tung Li-yi