Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship

The Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship is a biennial competition contested by the under-18 women's national teams of the Asian Volleyball Confederation as part of the Asian Youth Volleyball Championship. The competition broke its biennial design only in 2008, a year after it held its 2007 competition in Kamphaeng Phet, and in 2018, following the holding of a competition in 2017 in Chongqing after the tournament skipped the year 2016. It formerly carried the title Asian Youth Women's Volleyball Championship (in the tournament's 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions), the Asian Youth Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 4th-9th editions), and the Asian Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 10th and 11th editions, with the difference that the 10th edition, like the 9th edition, labeled the tournament as a U17 championship, while the 11th edition touted it as a U18 one, like the 8th edition).

Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
Most recent season or competition:
2024 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
SportVolleyball
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
First season1997
No. of teams16
ContinentsAsia and Oceania (AVC)
Most recent
champion(s)
 China
(5th title)
Most titles Japan
(9 titles)

In 2018, the championship's 12th edition now carried the title Asian Women's U17 Volleyball Championship, which, despite its use of the gendered possessive determiner "Women's" for its title, had lowered the age group back to U17. The tournament's age group would be reverted back to U18 in 2022, however, in accordance with decisions made during the March 21–22, 2022, FIVB Board of Administration meeting, which considered it important for the representative women's age-group teams from Asia to compete in the FIVB Age Group Championships in 2023. The board announced the adjustment of all 2022 Age Group Championships to align themselves with the 2023 FIVB age-group categories per gender of Under-19 and Under-21 for both genders, and thus the top 4 teams of the 2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship.

14 of the championship's tournaments have been won by two different national teams. Japan have won nine times, and China have won five times.

Result summary

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Year Host Final Third place match Teams
Champions Score Runners-up Third-place Score Fourth-place
1997
Details
 
Yala
 
Japan
Round-robin  
South Korea
 
China
Round-robin  
Thailand
8
1999
Details
 
Singapore
 
China
Round-robin  
Japan
 
Chinese Taipei
Round-robin  
South Korea
8
2001
Details
 
Trang
 
China
3–0  
Japan
 
South Korea
3–2  
Chinese Taipei
9
2003
Details
 
Sisaket
 
China
Round-robin  
North Korea
 
Thailand
Round-robin  
Chinese Taipei
8
2005
Details
 
Mandaue
 
China
3–2  
South Korea
 
Chinese Taipei
3–2  
Japan
9
2007
Details
 
Kamphaeng Phet
 
Japan
Round-robin  
South Korea
 
China
Round-robin  
Chinese Taipei
8
2008
Details
 
Manila
 
Japan
3–0  
China
 
Thailand
3–0  
South Korea
12
2010
Details
 
Kuala Lumpur
 
Japan
3–0  
China
 
Thailand
3–1  
South Korea
13
2012
Details
 
Chengdu
 
Japan
3–1  
China
 
Chinese Taipei
3–0  
South Korea
13
2014
Details
 
Nakhon Ratchasima
 
Japan
3–1  
Thailand
 
China
3–0  
South Korea
13
2017
Details
 
Chongqing
 
Japan
3–0  
China
 
South Korea
3–0  
Thailand
11
2018
Details
 
Nakhon Pathom
 
Japan
3–1  
China
 
Thailand
3–1  
South Korea
12
2020  
Nakhon Pathom
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022
Details
 
Nakhon Pathom
 
Japan
3–2  
China
 
South Korea
3–2  
Thailand
11
2024
Details
 
Nakhon Pathom
 
China
3–0  
Japan
 
Chinese Taipei
3–0  
Thailand
13

Teams reaching the top four

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Team Winners Runners-up Third-place Fourth-place
  Japan 9 (1997, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2022) 3 (1999, 2001, 2024) 1 (2005)
  China 5 (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2024) 6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2022) 3 (1997, 2007, 2014)
  South Korea 3 (1997, 2005, 2007) 3 (2001, 2017, 2022) 6 (1999, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)
  Thailand 1 (2014) 4 (2003, 2008, 2010, 2018) 4 (1997, 2017, 2022, 2024)
  North Korea 1 (2003)
  Chinese Taipei 4 (1999, 2005, 2012, 2024) 3 (2001, 2003, 2007)

Champions by region

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Federation (Region) Champion(s) Number
EAZVA (East Asia) Japan (9), China (4) 13 titles

Hosts

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Times Hosted Nations Year(s)
8   Thailand 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024
2   China 2012, 2017
  Philippines 2005, 2008
1   Singapore 1999
  Malaysia 2010

Medal summary

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan93012
2  China56314
3  South Korea0336
4  Thailand0145
5  North Korea0101
6  Chinese Taipei0044
Totals (6 entries)14141442

Participating nations

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Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
  •  •  – Did not enter / Did not qualify
  •    – Hosts
  • Q – Qualified for the forthcoming tournament
Year
Team
 
1997
(8)
 
1999
(8)
 
2001
(9)
 
2003
(8)
 
2005
(9)
 
2007
(8)
 
2008
(12)
 
2010
(13)
 
2012
(13)
 
2014
(13)
 
2017
(11)
 
2018
(12)
 
2022
(12)
 
2024
(13)
Years
  Australia 6th 8th 7th 6th 8th 7th 7th 11th 13th 7th 9th 11th 9th 13
  China 3rd 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 14
  Chinese Taipei 5th 3rd 4th 4th 3rd 4th 5th 5th 3rd 5th 5th 5th 5th 3rd 14
  Hong Kong 8th 9th 6th 12th 11th 5
  India 9th 5th 9th 6th 10th 13th 6th 11th 8th 10th 12th 11
  Indonesia 6th 1
  Iran 11th 9th 10th 10th 9th 7th 7th 6th 8
  Japan 1st 2nd 2nd 4th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 13
  Kazakhstan 6th 9th 6th 7th 6th 6th 6th 7th 8
  Macau 13th 1
  Malaysia 6th 7th 8th 11th 4
  Mongolia 12th 1
  New Zealand 11th 8th 8th 10th 4
  North Korea 6th 2nd 2
  Philippines 8th 8th 8th 8th 8th 7th 9th 10th 8
  Samoa 11th 1
  Singapore 7th 7th 12th 3
  South Korea 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd 4th 4th 4th 4th 3rd 4th 3rd 5th 13
  Sri Lanka 7th 12th 13th 3
  Thailand 4th 5th 5th 3rd 5th 5th 3rd 3rd 5th 2nd 4th 3rd 4th 4th 14
  Uzbekistan 10th 8th 8th 3
  Vietnam 7th 10th 9th 12th 4

Debut of teams

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Awards

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Former awards

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See also

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References

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