2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Nations Cup

For the women's tournament, see 2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Nations Cup.

The 2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Cup will be the second edition of the AVC Men's Volleyball Nations Cup, and seventh overall edition of the formerly known AVC Men's Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of India (VFI). It will be held from 20 to 28 June 2026 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. This marks India's first time hosting the tournament.

Host selection

India was selected to host the 2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Nations Cup after AVC unveiled its 2026 calendar in December 2025. Ahmedabad was named the host city of the tournament with games to be held at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex.

Qualification

Following AVC regulations, a maximum of 12 teams for the AVC Nations Cup were selected through the following criteria:

• 1 team for the host country.
• 1 team for the defending champion from the previous edition. (If the defending champion is also the host nation, the runners-up take the place)
• 5 teams based on the FIVB World Rankings that have not yet qualified.
• 5 remaining teams from the zonal competitions that haven't already qualified for neither the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League nor the Nations Cup.

Country	Zone	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances			Previous best performance
				Total	First	Last
India	CAVA	Host country	20 December 2025	1	2023		15th place (2023)
Bahrain	WAVA	Defending champions	24 June 2025	3	2023	2025	Champions (2025)
Australia	OZVA	World Rankings qualifiers	2 February 2026	3	2023	2025	5th place (2023, 2025)
Indonesia	SAVA			3	2023	2025	6th place (2023, 2025)
Pakistan	CAVA			2	2024	2025	Runners-up (2024, 2025)
Qatar	WAVA			2	2024	2025	Champions (2024)
South Korea	EAVA			3	2023	2025	3rd place (2023, 2024)
Chinese Taipei	EAVA	2025 EAVA runners-up		3	2023	2025	7th place (2025)
Kazakhstan	CAVA	2025 CAVA 4th placers		2	2023	2024	4th place (2024)
New Zealand	OZVA	OZVA qualification qualifier		1	2025		11th place (2025)
Oman	WAVA	2025 WAVA 3rd placers		0	None		Debut
Thailand	SAVA	2025 SAVA runners-up		3	2022	2025	Champions (2023)

China, Iran, and Japan, which are competing at the 2026 Nations League, are ineligible to submit entries to this tournament.

Pools composition

The draw of lots took place on 10 April 2026 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India led by AVC President Ramon Suzara, with Nilofer Shaikh, Assistant Director of the Sports Authority of Gujarat. Teams were split into two pools with six teams each.

External video

[ LIVE ] Drawing of Lots : AVC Men's Cup Amdavad 2026

Drawing of Lots Live Streaming

Seeding

Seeded teams	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
India (58) (Hosts) Qatar (21) South Korea (26) Australia (33) Bahrain (40) Pakistan (44)	Indonesia (51) Chinese Taipei (53)	Thailand (59) Kazakhstan (60)	Oman (76) New Zealand (82)

Draw results

Pool A	Pool B
India	Qatar
Australia	South Korea
Bahrain	Pakistan
Chinese Taipei	Indonesia
Kazakhstan	Thailand
New Zealand	Oman

Venue

Ahmedabad, India
Veer Savarkar Sports Complex
Capacity: 5,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
   • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
   • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
   • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the AVC will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
   • Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
   • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
   • If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

• All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

Pool A

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Pool B

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Final round

11th place match

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9th place match

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7th place match

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5th place match

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Final four

	Semifinals				Final
	27 June
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					28 June
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	27 June
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					3rd place match
					28 June

Semifinals

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final standing

Rank	Team
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Awards

• Most valuable player
• Best setter
• Best outside spikers
• Best middle blockers
• Best opposite spiker
• Best libero

Broadcasting rights

Country/region	Broadcaster
Global	Volleyball TV, YouTube
Indonesia	Emtek (Vidio, Moji)