Asian Volleyball Confederation

The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor, beach, and grass volleyball in Asia and Oceania. It has 65 member associations, located in the Asia-Pacific region, but excludes four transcontinental countries with territory in both Asia and Europe – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Türkiye – along with Armenia, Cyprus, and Israel, which are members of the CEV.

The main headquarters is located in Bangkok, Thailand and the current president is Rita Subowo of Indonesia.

Board of Administration

 * President
 * 🇮🇩 Rita Subowo
 * Senior Executive Vice President
 * 🇨🇳 Cai Yi
 * Executive Vice President
 * 🇰🇼 Abdulaziz A. Albalool
 * Executive Zonal Vice Presidents
 * 🇶🇦 Ali Ghanim Al-Kuwari (Western Zone)
 * 🇮🇳 Ramavtar Singh Jakhar (Central Zone)
 * 🇨🇳 Cai Yi (Eastern Zone)
 * 🇹🇭 Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai (Southeastern Zone)
 * 🇨🇰 Hugh Graham (Oceania Zone)
 * Secretary General
 * 🇹🇭 Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai
 * Treasurer
 * 🇨🇳 Cai Yi


 * Board Members
 * 🇧🇭 Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa
 * 🇴🇲 Badar Ali Said Al Rawas
 * 🇧🇩 Atiqul Islam
 * 🇰🇿 Yermek Syrlybayev
 * 🇮🇷 Mohammed Reza Davarzani
 * 🇰🇷 Eom Han-joo
 * 🇯🇵 Kenji Shimaoka
 * Chinese Taipei Volleyball Flag.svg Wang Kuei-shiang
 * Trần Đức Phấn
 * 🇲🇲 Thein Win
 * 🇦🇺 Craig Carracher
 * 🇲🇭 Terry Sasser
 * Female Members
 * Fong Sok Van Alice Oliver
 * 🇵🇼 Hila Asanuma
 * Auditor
 * 🇧🇭 Jehad Khalfan

List of presidents

 * 🇯🇵 Masaichi Nishikawa (1952–1976)
 * 🇵🇭 Nemesio Yabut (1976–1979)
 * 🇯🇵 Yutaka Maeda (1979–1985)
 * 🇯🇵 Yasutaka Matsudaira (1985–1996)
 * 🇨🇳 Yuan Weimin (1997–2001)
 * 🇨🇳 Wei Jizhong (2001–2008)
 * 🇸🇦 Saleh A Bin Nasser (2008–2020)
 * 🇮🇩 Rita Subowo (2020–present)

Member associations


Notes:


 * The Central Zone includes member associations from Central Asia and Southern Asia.

† Possible future member associations from Oceania: Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, and Wallis and Futuna.

Championships
The AVC organizes three championships, involving two of three FIVB disciplines (volleyball and beach volleyball).


 * Men's Asian Volleyball Championship (held in odd years; held in every two years as FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship Qualification Tournament since 2021)
 * Women's Asian Volleyball Championship (held in odd years; held in every two years as FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Qualification Tournament since 2021)
 * Asian Beach Volleyball Championships (held in every year; involving two-gender tournaments)

Age-restricted championships
The AVC also runs various competitions restricted to a younger age.


 * Men's Asian U20 Volleyball Championship (held in even years as FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Women's Asian U20 Volleyball Championship (held in even years as FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Boys' Asian U18 Volleyball Championship (held in even years as FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Girls' Asian U18 Volleyball Championship (held in even years as FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Boys' Asian U16 Volleyball Championship (held in odd years as FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Girls' Asian U16 Volleyball Championship (held in odd years as FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships (held in even years as FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships Qualification Tournament; involving two-gender tournaments)
 * Asian U19 Beach Volleyball Championships (held in even years as FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships Qualification Tournament; involving two-gender tournaments)

Defunct tournaments:


 * Men's Asian U23 Volleyball Championship: 2015–2019 (held in odd years as FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Women's Asian U23 Volleyball Championship: 2015–2019 (held in odd years as FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Asian U17 Beach Volleyball Championships: 2016 (held in even years as FIVB Beach Volleyball U17 World Championships Qualification Tournament; involving two-gender tournaments)

Cups
The AVC organizes four cups for volleyball national teams in two divisions per gender.
 * AVC Cup for Men (held in even year; top division for men's national teams)
 * AVC Cup for Women (held in even year; top division for women's national teams)
 * AVC Challenge Cup for Men (held annually as FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup Qualification Tournament since 2023)
 * AVC Challenge Cup for Women (held annually as FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup Qualification Tournament since 2023)

Club championships
The AVC organizes two more championships for volleyball clubs.
 * Men's Asian Club Volleyball Championship (held in every year as FIVB Volleyball Men's World Club Championship Qualification Tournament)
 * Women's Asian Club Volleyball Championship (held in every year as FIVB Volleyball Women's World Club Championship Qualification Tournament)

Tour
The AVC organizes a continental tour for beach volleyball teams.
 * AVC Beach Tour (held annually; involving two-gender tournaments)

Continental qualification tournaments
The AVC organizes four continental qualification tournaments, involving two of three FIVB disciplines (volleyball and beach volleyball).
 * AVC Men's Tokyo Volleyball Qualification (held once as Olympic Qualification Tournament; tournament's name was exclusive for 2020 Summer Olympics)
 * AVC Women's Tokyo Volleyball Qualification (held once as Olympic Qualification Tournament; tournament's name was exclusive for 2020 Summer Olympics)
 * AVC Challenger (held once as FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup Qualification Tournament; involving two-gender tournaments)
 * AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Cup (held in three seasons as Olympic Qualification Tournament; involving two-gender tournaments)

Sponsors

 * Mikasa
 * SMM Sport
 * Senoh
 * Gerflor
 * Grand Sport Group