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Asian Volleyball Confederation
International sports governing body
International sports governing body
| Field | Value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Asian Volleyball Confederation | ||||||
| logo | Asian Volleyball Confederation logo (2025).svgclass=skin-invert | ||||||
| logo_size | 200px | ||||||
| image | Asian Volleyball Confederation Map.png | ||||||
| abbreviation | AVC | ||||||
| formation | {{cite web | url=https://asianvolleyball.net/new/avc-history-2/ | |||||
| title | AVC History | publisher=Asian Volleyball Confederation | access-date=13 April 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250413122458/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/avc-history-2/ | archive-date=13 April 2025 | url-status=live }} | |
| type | Sports organisation | ||||||
| headquarters | Bangkok, Thailand | ||||||
| region_served | Asia and Oceania | ||||||
| membership | 65 national federations | ||||||
| language | English{{cite web | url=https://asianvolleyball.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AVC-statues-revised-Jul-2-15-Final-Jan-7-16.pdf | |||||
| title | AVC Statutes Edition 2015 | publisher=Asian Volleyball Confederation | date=7 January 2016 | access-date=13 April 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214074124/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AVC-statues-revised-Jul-2-15-Final-Jan-7-16.pdf | archive-date=14 December 2024 | url-status=live }} |
| leader_title | President | ||||||
| leader_name | Ramon Suzara | ||||||
| leader_title2 | Vice presidents | ||||||
| leader_name2 | {{ubl | ||||||
| leader_title3 | General secretary | ||||||
| leader_name3 | Hugh Graham | ||||||
| subsidiaries | |||||||
| parent_organization | FIVB | ||||||
| website |
| Craig Carracher | Mohamed Latheef (CAVA) | Yuan Lei (EAVA) | Hugh Graham (OZVA) | Heyzer Harsono (SAVA) | Ali Ghanim Al-Kuwari (WAVA)
- CAVA (Central Asia and South Asia)
- EAVA (East Asia)
- OZVA (Oceania)
- SAVA (Southeast Asia)
- WAVA (West Asia)
The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental governing bodies in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey, as well as the West Asian countries of Armenia, Cyprus, and Israel. The AVC consists of 65 national association members.
The AVC consists of the national volleyball federations of Asia and Oceania, and club competitions including the Asian Volleyball Championships, Nations Cup, and Champions League, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions.
acted as the first president. The current president is Ramon Suzara, a Philippine National Volleyball Federation president, who was elected as AVC's ninth president at the 25th AVC General Assembly in Bangkok in August 2024.
History
After William G. Morgan, the physical education director of the YMCA in Massachusetts, United States, invented the sport of volleyball in 1895, ten years later, in the early 1900s, the YMCA began spreading the sport to Asian countries such as Qing dynasty, Empire of Japan, the Philippine Islands, and British Raj.
Later, in 1913, volleyball was included in the Far Eastern Games held in Manila, Philippine Islands, which is considered the first international volleyball competition in the world. AVC was established in 1952, four years after the founding of the FIVB, following an initiative by Masaichi Nishikawa, then President of the Japan Volleyball Association.
Asia has become one of the most important continents in the world of volleyball, as it has the largest number of member federations and enjoys widespread popularity of the sport. The continent has also hosted many major international volleyball events — most notably, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which marked the debut of volleyball in the Olympic Games. In that historic event, the Japanese women's team won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in volleyball.
In September 2025, the AVC House was inaugurated in Bangkok.
Presidents
Main article: List of presidents of the Asian Volleyball Confederation
| No. | President | Nationality | Term | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1952–1976 | |||||||||||
| Nemesio Yabut | Philippines | 1976–1979 | ||||||||||
| Japan | 1979–1985 | |||||||||||
| Yasutaka Matsudaira | Japan | 1985–1996 | ||||||||||
| Yuan Weimin | China | 1997–2001 | ||||||||||
| China | 2001–2008 | |||||||||||
| Saleh Ahmad Bin Nasser | Saudi Arabia | 2008–2020 | ||||||||||
| Rita Subowo | Indonesia | 2020–2024 | ||||||||||
| Ramon Suzara | Philippines | 2024–present |
Board of administration
| url=https://www.fivb.com/inside-fivb/fivb/directory/avc/ | title=AVC - Asian Volleyball Confederation | publisher=Fédération Internationale de Volleyball | access-date=14 April 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250414061513/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/history/ | archive-date=14 April 2025 | url-status=live }} | Name | Nationality | Note | President | Senior vice-president | Executive vice-president | Zonal executive vice-president | Female executive member | Secretary general | Treasurer | Executive director | Board of administration member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramon Suzara | Philippines | FIVB executive vice-president | ||||||||||||||||
| Craig Carracher | Australia | FIVB board of administration member | ||||||||||||||||
| Mohamed Latheef | Maldives | |||||||||||||||||
| Mohamed Latheef | Maldives | CAVA president | ||||||||||||||||
| Yuan Lei | China | EAVA president, FIVB board of administration member | ||||||||||||||||
| Hugh Graham | Cook Islands | OZVA president, FIVB executive vice-president | ||||||||||||||||
| Heyzer Harsono | Indonesia | SAVA president | ||||||||||||||||
| Ali Ghanim Al-Kuwari | Qatar | WAVA president, FIVB board of administration member | ||||||||||||||||
| Fong Sok Van Alice Oliver | Macau | |||||||||||||||||
| Hila Asanuma | Palau | FIVB executive vice-president | ||||||||||||||||
| Hugh Graham | Cook Islands | |||||||||||||||||
| Marina Tsui | Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||
| Shanrit Wongprasert | Thailand | AVC lifetime honorary vice-president | ||||||||||||||||
| Mohammed bin Khalifa Al-khalifa | Bahrain | |||||||||||||||||
| Seyed Milad Taghavi | Iran | |||||||||||||||||
| Shunichi Kawai | Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Princess Ayah bint Faisal | Jordan | FIVB board of administration member | ||||||||||||||||
| Kylychbek Sarbaghyshev | Kyrgyzstan | |||||||||||||||||
| Terry Sasser | Marshall Islands | |||||||||||||||||
| Jitendra Bahadur Chand | Nepal | |||||||||||||||||
| Ibrahim bin Abdulla Al-muqbali | Oman | |||||||||||||||||
| Huang Kuo Kuang | Chinese Taipei | |||||||||||||||||
| Thiti Pluckchaoom | Thailand | FIVB board of administration member | ||||||||||||||||
| Trần Đức Phấn | Vietnam |
Committees
| url=https://asianvolleyball.net/new/committee-council/ | title=Committee & Council | Sports events council | Referees committee | Coaches committee | Development and marketing committee | Finance committee | Medical committee | Beach volleyball committee | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| access-date=14 April 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318121644/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/committee-council/ | archive-date=18 March 2025 | url-status=live }}!!President!!Nationality | |||||||
| Kylychbek Sarbaghyshev | Kyrgyzstan | |||||||||
| Dean Edward Turner Oam | Australia | |||||||||
| Feng Kun | China | |||||||||
| Seong Keehak | South Korea | |||||||||
| Terry Sasser | Marshall Islands | |||||||||
| Oh Jae-Keun | South Korea | |||||||||
| Craig Carracher | Australia |
National federations
CAVA (Central Asia and South Asia)
Main article: Central Asian Volleyball Association
| Code | Federation | National teams | Founded | FIVB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | AVC | |||||
| affiliation | IOC | |||||
| member | ||||||
| AFG | ||||||
| BAN | ||||||
| BHU | 1973 | |||||
| IND | 1951 | |||||
| IRI | 1945 | 1959 | ||||
| KAZ | ||||||
| KGZ | ||||||
| MDV | ||||||
| NEP | ||||||
| PAK | 1955 | |||||
| SRI | 1951 | |||||
| TJK | ||||||
| TKM | ||||||
| UZB |
EAVA (East Asia)
Main article: Eastern Asian Volleyball Association
| Code | Federation | National teams | Founded | FIVB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | AVC | |||||
| affiliation | IOC | |||||
| member | ||||||
| CHN | 1953 | 1954 | ||||
| TPE | 1954 | |||||
| HKG | ||||||
| JPN | 1927 | 1951 | 1952 | |||
| MAC | ||||||
| MGL | ||||||
| PRK | ||||||
| KOR | 1946 | 1959 |
OZVA (Oceania)
Main article: Oceania Zonal Volleyball Association
| Code | Federation | National teams | Founded | FIVB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | AVC | |||||
| affiliation | IOC | |||||
| member | ||||||
| ASA | ||||||
| AUS | 1963 | |||||
| COK | ||||||
| FIJ | ||||||
| PYF | ||||||
| GUM | ||||||
| KIR | ||||||
| MSH | ||||||
| FSM | ||||||
| NZL | ||||||
| NIU | ||||||
| NMI | ||||||
| PAU | ||||||
| PNG | ||||||
| SAM | ||||||
| SOL | ||||||
| TGA | ||||||
| TUV | ||||||
| VAN |
SAVA (Southeast Asia)
Main article: Southeast Asian Volleyball Association
| Code | Federation | National teams | Founded | FIVB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | AVC | |||||
| affiliation | IOC | |||||
| member | ||||||
| BRU | ||||||
| CAM | ||||||
| INA | 1955 | |||||
| LAO | ||||||
| MAS | ||||||
| PHI | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | |||
| SIN | ||||||
| THA | 1959 | |||||
| TLS | ||||||
| VIE | 1961 | 1991 | 1991 |
WAVA (West Asia)
Main article: West Asian Volleyball Association
| Code | Federation | National teams | Founded | FIVB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | AVC | |||||
| affiliation | IOC | |||||
| member | ||||||
| BRN | 1976 | 1976 | ||||
| IRQ | 1959 | 1959 | ||||
| JOR | 1961 | 1971 | ||||
| KUW | ||||||
| LBN | 1949 | 1949 | ||||
| OMA | ||||||
| PLE | ||||||
| QAT | ||||||
| KSA | ||||||
| SYR | ||||||
| UAE | ||||||
| YEM | 1976 | 1976 |
FIVB World Rankings
Main article: FIVB Senior Continental Rankings#AVC Continental Rankings
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Competitions
Volleyball
National teams: ;Men
- Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
- AVC Men's Volleyball Nations Cup
- Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship
- Asian Men's U18 Volleyball Championship
- Asian Men's U16 Volleyball Championship ;Women
- Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
- AVC Women's Volleyball Nations Cup
- Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship
- Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship
- Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship Clubs: ;Men
- AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League ;Women
- AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League
Beach volleyball
National teams:
- AVC Asian Beach Volleyball Championships
- AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Cup
- AVC Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships
- AVC Asian U19 Beach Volleyball Championships Professional tours:
- AVC Beach Volleyball Tour
Snow volleyball
Asian Snow volleyball championships 2026 Iran
Defunct
Volleyball
National teams: ;Men
- Asian Men's Volleyball Cup
- AVC Men's Olympic Volleyball Qualification
- AVC Men's Volleyball World Championship Qualification
- Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship ;Women
- Asian Women's Volleyball Cup
- AVC Women's Olympic Volleyball Qualification
- AVC Women's Volleyball World Championship Qualification
- Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship
Title holders
Volleyball
| Championship | Nations Cup | U–20 | U–18 | U–16 | Champions League | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (2023) | |||||||
| (2025) | |||||||
| (2024) | |||||||
| (2024) | |||||||
| (2025) | Al Rayyan | ||||||
| (2025) | |||||||
| (2023) | |||||||
| (2025) | |||||||
| (2024) | |||||||
| (2024) | |||||||
| (2025) | Zhetysu | ||||||
| (2025) |
Beach volleyball
Notes
References
References
- "Headquarters". Asian Volleyball Confederation.
- "Affiliated National Federations". Asian Volleyball Confederation.
- (30 August 2024). "PNVF chief Tats Suzara voted AVC president". Philippine Daily Inquirer.
- (30 August 2024). "Tats Suzara elected president of AVC". Tiebreaker Times.
- "History". Asian Volleyball Confederation.
- (1926). "History of the Far Eastern Athletic Association". International Olympic Committee.
- link. Department of Physical Education (Thailand)
- (5 September 2025). "Southeast Asia becomes volleyball’s epicenter with new AVC house in Bangkok". One Sports.
- "AVC - Asian Volleyball Confederation". Fédération Internationale de Volleyball.
- "Board of Organization". Asian Volleyball Confederation.
- "Executive Committee". Asian Volleyball Confederation.
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