2018 Women's Asian U17 Volleyball Championship

The 2018 Women's Asian U17 Volleyball Championship, also referred to as the 2018 SMM Est Cola Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the twelfth edition of the Asian Youth Women Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), that year with the Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA), for the under-17 women's national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, from 20 to 27 May 2018.

A total of thirteen teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.

Like the previous editions, the tournament acted as the AVC qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top four teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Qualification
The thirteen AVC member associations (including the India volleyball team under the Indian Olympic Association, who was suspended by the FIVB, and whose suspenion was lifted in May 2018) participated in the tournament, with Thailand already qualified as host country. Eight of the teams participated in the 2017 Asian Girls' U18 Volleyball Championship, while three did not participate in that previous edition. The thirteen AVC member associations were from four zonal associations, namely, Central Asia (3 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (2 team) and Southeast Asia (2 teams). No West Asian teams participated in this edition.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition
This was the first Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Cup to use the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format saw teams being drawn into three or four pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team, as well as the host side, were assigned into a pool according to their previous ranking (2017 Asian Girls' U18 Volleyball Championship). As the three best-ranked teams were drawn in the same Pool A, the next best three contested in Pool B, and the next best three contesting in Pool C. Pool D comprised teams that finished as the next best four teams.

Venues

 * Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium in Mueang Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Pathom

Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team were made to register a squad of 12 players from 19 players of their preliminary squad, per Regulations Articles 4.5, 4.6, 5.4 and 5.5.

Preliminary round

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

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

Match forfeited: 0 match points for each.

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Final round

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

Ninth to Twelfth places

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Eleventh place

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Ninth place

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Fifth to Eighth places

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Seventh place

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Fifth place

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Play-offs

 * Winners advanced to the Quarter-finals.
 * Losers transferred to the Classification round (R9–12).


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Quarter-finals

 * Winners advanced to the Semi-finals and World Championship.
 * Losers transferred to the Classification round (R5–8).


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Semi-finals

 * Winners advanced to the Finals.
 * Losers contested the tournament's Third Place.


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Third place

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Final

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Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇯🇵 Nishikawa Yoshino


 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇯🇵 Nishikawa Yoshino
 * 🇨🇳 Zhou Yetong


 * Best setter
 * 🇹🇭 Supatcha Kamtalaksa


 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇯🇵 Manami Koyama


 * Best middle blocker
 * 🇨🇳 Wu Mengjie
 * 🇯🇵 Madoka Kashimura


 * Best libero
 * 🇹🇭 Jidapa Nahuanong