2025 Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship

The 2025 Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship was the second edition of the Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). It was held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand from 12 to 19 July 2025.

This tournament served as a qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Players must be born on or after January 1, 2010.

The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) announced on its Facebook page that Thailand was awarded the hosting rights on December 19, 2024.

On 3 February 2025 Malaysia Volleyball Association announce 18 teams registered to AVC to compete in AVC U16 Championship.

Following AVC regulation, total of 16 teams in any AVC event will be selected by the followings:

• 1 team for the Organizer
• 10 teams based on the rankings of the previous championship
• 5 teams from each of 5 zones (with a qualification tournament if needed)

Southeast Asian qualification were held in Sentul, Bogor in 25 May 2025. From SAVA zone there were originally 3 teams, but Philippines withdrew from the qualification.

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines

The draw of lots took place on 25 May 2025 at the Edsa Shangri-La, Manila in Mandaluyong, Philippines.

In preliminary round, all teams are divided into four pools (A, B, C, & D) with four teams each. The teams battled in a single round-robin with the top two teams in each pool qualified to 1st–8th classification while bottom two teams qualified to 9th–16th classification.

In classification round, all teams in each pools (E, F, G, & H) battle again in a single round-robin where top two teams in pools E and F qualify to semifinals and the two bottom teams qualify to 5th–8th places, while the top two teams in pools G and H qualify to 9th–12th places and 13th–16th places, respectively. Teams who faced each other in the preliminary will not play again rather their win-loss record will carry over.

In final round, the teams battle in knockout format.

1. Number of Victories
2. Match points
3. Set quotient
4. Points quotient
5. If the tie continues as per the point quotient between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points quotient is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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

• All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

• All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

• The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round.

• All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).

The following teams from AVC qualified for the 2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship.

• 2025 Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship

• Official website

• Squads