The 2008 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship

AVC Club Championships

The AVC Club Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for club volleyball teams, currently held annually and organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation, the Asia volleyball federation. From the year of 2004, the names of AVC Club Tournaments changed from "AVC Cup Men's/Women's Club...

was the 9th staging of the AVC

Asian Volleyball Confederation

Asian Volleyball Confederation is the continental governing body for the sport of volleyball in Asia.- Profile :The Asian Volleyball Confederation was established on May 6th, 1952, and since then AVC has become one of the largest continental volleyball associations in the world, with its member...

 Club Championships. The tournament was held in Almaty

Almaty

Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

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Pools composition

The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2007 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship.

Pool A

Pool B

Kazakhstan (Host)   Bahrain (4th)   Japan   Kuwait *

Iran Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation ' is the governing body for Volleyball in Iran. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of FIVB since ?. It was a part of Iranian Basketball Federation till 1957. It is also a member of the Asian Volleyball Confederation...  (1st)   Qatar (3rd)   China Chinese Volleyball Association Chinese Volleyball Association is a national non-governmental, nonprofit sports organization in the People's Republic of China. It represents China in the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the Asian Volleyball Confederation, as well as the volleyball sports in the All-China Sports...   United Arab Emirates **   Indonesia *

* Withdrew

** United Arab Emirates was transferred from Pool B to Pool A and replaced by Kazakhstan B.

Pool A

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Pool B

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Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

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7th place

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5th place

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Final round

Semifinals

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3rd place

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Final

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Final standing

Rank	Team
	Paykan Tehran
	Almaty
	Suntory Sunbirds Suntory Sunbirds Suntory Sunbirds is a men's volleyball team based in Osaka city, Osaka, Japan. It plays in V.Premier League. The club was founded in 1973.The owner of the club is Suntory.-Honours:Japan Volleyball League/V.League/V.Premier League...
4	Al-Nasr Al-Nasr Sports Club Al-Nasr Sports Club , is a professional association football club located in Dubai and plays in the UAE Pro-League. Al-Nasr, literally translating to "victory" in Arabic was founded in 1945 and considered as the first and the oldest club in the UAE...
5	Henan Tianguan
6	Al-Arabi
7	Al-Najma Al-Najma Al-Najma is a Bahraini football club based in Manama. They play in the top division in Bahraini football. Some of their famous players are striker mourad faris ,Rashed Jamal,young Bahrain Olympic team player Hamad Faisal , Yemeni international defender Salem Saeed ,and the main goalkeeper of the...
8	Esil Petropavlovsk

Awards

• MVP:   Marat Imangaliyev (Almaty)
• Best Scorer:   Hicham Guemmadi
  Hicham Guemmadi
  Hicham Guemmadi is an Algerian international volleyball player.Representing with his home team at the 1998 World Championship, his team finished in 19th place....
  
   (Al-Nasr)
• Best Server:   Ali Kerboua
  Ali Kerboua
  Ali Kerboua is an Algerian volleyball player. He is a member of the Algeria men's national volleyball team.-Club information:*Current club: Nasr Volleyball*Debut club: USM Blida-References:*...
  
   (Al-Nasr)
• Best Spiker:   Mohsen Andalib (Paykan)
• Best Blocker:   Alireza Nadi
  Alireza Nadi
  Alireza Nadi is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as a middle-blocker for the Men's National Team.-National team:*Asian Championship**Gold medal : 2011**Silver medal : 2009**Bronze medal : 2003*Asian Games...
  
   (Paykan)
• Best Receiver:   Dmitriy Gorbatkov (Almaty)
• Best Setter:   Alexey Stepanov (Almaty)
• Best Digger:   Kenji Sabato (Suntory)