2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup

2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup

Tournament details
Host nation	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Dates	3–9 December (original schedule)
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1

The 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup was supposed to be the inaugural edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Association of Hong Kong, China. But due to unforeseen reasons the tournament was not held.

Qualification

Main article: 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

  Qualified

The AVC members associations, some teams were participated for the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The AVC members associations were from five zonal associations, including, Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (3 team), Oceania (2 team), Southeastern Asia (1 team).

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification	Births	Qualified
Host country	1	Hong Kong
Eastern Asian teams	2	Mongolia
		Macau
Central Asian teams	2	Uzbekistan
		Sri Lanka
Oceanian teams	2	New Zealand
		Fiji
Southeast Asian teams	1	Malaysia
Total 8

Pools composition

The draw results.

Pool A	Pool B
Hong Kong (1)	Mongolia
Uzbekistan	Macau
Sri Lanka	Malaysia
Fiji	New Zealand

Preliminary 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

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Hong Kong	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
2	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
3	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
4	Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Rules for classification: Pool standing procedure

		Match A1		Hong Kong

		Match A2		Hong Kong

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		Match A3		Hong Kong

		Match A4		Hong Kong

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		Match A5		Hong Kong

		Match A6		Hong Kong

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		Match A7		Hong Kong

		Match A8		Hong Kong

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
2	Macau	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
3	Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
4	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Rules for classification: Pool standing procedure

		Match B1		Hong Kong

		Match B2		Hong Kong

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		Match B3		Hong Kong

		Match B4		Hong Kong

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		Match B5		Hong Kong

		Match B6		Hong Kong

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		Match B7		Hong Kong

		Match B8		Hong Kong

Final round

Classification round

	Fifth semi-finals				Fifth place
	August
					August
	August
					Seventh place
					August

Fifth semi-finals

		Match FSF1		Hong Kong

		Match FSF2		Hong Kong

Seventh place match

		Seventh place		Hong Kong

Fifth place match

		Fifth place		Hong Kong

Championship round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	August
	B1 Winners Pool B
					August
	A4 Fourth-placed team Pool A
	August
	A2 Runners-up team Pool A
									August
	B3 Third-placed team Pool B
	August
	A1 Winners Pool A
					August
	B4 Fourth-placed team Pool B
	August
									Third place
	B2 Runners-up team Pool B
									August
	A3 Third-placed team Pool A

Quarter-finals

		Match QF1		Hong Kong

		Match QF2		Hong Kong

		Match QF3		Hong Kong

		Match QF4		Hong Kong

Semi-finals

		Match SF1		Hong Kong

		Match SF2		Hong Kong

Third place match

		Third place		Hong Kong

Final

		Final		Hong Kong

Final standing

Key
	Promoted to AVC Cup

Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze

Awards

• Most valuable player

• Best outside spikers

• Best setter

• Best opposite spiker

• Best middle blocker

• Best libero

See also

• 2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Challenge Cup
• 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup

External links

• Asian Volleyball Confederation