2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

The 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the nineteenth edition of the Asian Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. (LVPI). The tournament was held in both Biñan and Muntinlupa, Philippines from 9 to 17 August 2017.

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 (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (2 teams), and Southeast Asia (3 teams). 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.


 * Notes
 * The bold team will be the top positions in each pool.

Format
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 (as per procedure below).

The two best teams of each group (total of 8 teams) 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

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 (who ranked 12th) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–).

Preliminary round

 * All times are in Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Classification round

 * All times are in Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
 * 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.

Final round

 * All times are in Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Final standings
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

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇯🇵 Risa Shinnabe (JPN)
 * Best setter
 * 🇹🇭 Nootsara Tomkom (THA)
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Yeon-koung (KOR)
 * 🇹🇭 Chatchu-on Moksri (THA)
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇹🇭 Hattaya Bamrungsuk (THA)
 * 🇯🇵 Nana Iwasaka (JPN)
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇨🇳 Jin Ye (CHN)
 * Best liberos
 * 🇯🇵 Mako Kobata (JPN)
 * Dawn Nicole Macandili