2023 AVC Men's Challenge Cup

The 2023 AVC Men's Challenge Cup, also known as the 2023 AVC Challenge Cup for Men, was the fourth edition of the AVC Men's Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), in that year with the Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association (CTVBA). The tournament was held in Taipei, Taiwan from 8 to 15 July 2023.

The winners of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup.

Thailand won their first title and earned the right to participate in 2023 Challenger Cup after defeating Bahrain in straight sets in the final. South Korea took the bronze after defeating Vietnam in the 3rd place match. Anurak Phanram named as the MVP of the tournament.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition
The overview of pools was released on 16 March 2023.


 * Pakistan and Uzbekistan withdrew from the tournament.

Format
Teams are divided into six pools. Last placed teams in pools B, C, F play for 13th to 15th places. The second-ranked teams in each pool were drawn to pair with the first-ranked teams in each pool. Top six advances to next round while losers relegated to 7th–12th places.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
 * 2) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
 * 3) * Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
 * 4) * Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
 * 5) * Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
 * 6) If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
 * 7) * Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
 * 8) * Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
 * 9) * If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

 * All times are Taiwan Time (UTC+08:00).

Final round

 * All times are Taiwan Time (UTC+08:00).

Awards



 * Most valuable player
 * 🇹🇭 Anurak Phanram (THA)
 * Best setter
 * 🇰🇷 Hwang Taek-eui (KOR)
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇹🇭 Anut Promchan (THA)
 * 🇧🇭 Mohamed Abdulla Yaqoob (BHR)
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇹🇭 Kissada Nilsawai (THA)
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Min-jae (KOR)
 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇧🇭 Ali Khamis (BHR)
 * Best libero
 * 🇧🇭 Ayman Haroon (BHR)