2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship

The 2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the 22nd staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). The tournament was held in Urmia, Iran from 19 to 26 August 2023.

This was Iran's fifth time serving as the host nation.

Japan won their tenth title by defeating in straight sets the host and two-time defending champions Iran in the final. Iran took their third silver medal of the tournament. Qatar won their first medal of the tournament, claiming the bronze after defeating China (3–0) in the third place match. Yūki Ishikawa named as the MVP of the tournament.

Japan, Iran, and Qatar, the top three teams of the tournament qualifed for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Qualification
Following the AVC regulations, The maximum of 16 teams in all AVC events will be selected by:
 * 1 team for the host country
 * 10 teams based on the final standing of the previous edition
 * 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Qualified teams
The AVC stated that there were originally eighteen entrant teams that were due to participate in the tournament. However, on 17 August 2023, Mongolia announced that they withdrew from the tournament.

Note:

Pools composition
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2021 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2021 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 16 March 2023. Final standings of the 2021 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st.


 * Mongolia withdrew from the tournament.

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 Iran Standard Time (UTC+03:30).

Awards



 * Most valuable player
 * 🇯🇵 Yūki Ishikawa (JPN)
 * Best setter
 * Mohammad Taher Vadi
 * Best outside spikers
 * 🇯🇵 Ran Takahashi (JPN)
 * 🇶🇦 Raimi Wadidie (QAT)
 * Best middle blockers
 * 🇶🇦 Belal Nabel Abunabot (QAT)
 * 🇯🇵 Taishi Onodera (JPN)
 * Best opposite spiker
 * Amin Esmaeilnejad
 * Best libero
 * 🇨🇳 Yang Yiming (CHN)