Jiangmen, China, June 29, 2024 – The 8,500-seater Jiangmen Sports Center Gymnasium, which once served as the competition site for AVC Men’s Tokyo Qualification 2020, is all set for the 22nd Asian Women’s U20 Volleyball Championship between July 1 and 9, with 12 teams vying for top honor and four berths at stake for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women’s U21 World Championship.
Starting with the 2025 edition, the Women’s U21 World Championship will be expanded to include 24 teams in stead of 16 teams of previous editions following the decision adopted by FIVB in June 2023. However, as current world champions China automatically qualified for the 2025 edition, the 22nd Asian Women’s U20 Volleyball Championship in Jiangmen is, as a result, likely to qualify 4 teams excluding China for the next year’s Women’s U21 World Championship, due to take place between August and September.
In Jiangmen, teams were divided to four pools of three teams apiece to contest the pool round-robin preliminaries from July 1 to 3. After that, top two teams from each pool will advance to Round of 8, with teams from Pool A and Pool C competing in Pool E and those from Pool B and Pool D featuring in Pool F. The lower-ranked teams finishing third place in each pool will be relegated to Classification Round for 9th-12th places.
The preparations for the 22nd Asian Women’s U20 Championship took a big step forward on Saturday as the Control Committee, chaired by Mr Cai Yi from China, and the Local Organizing Committee of the China Volleyball Association (CVA) and Jiangmen City assembled in Meeting Room 1 inside the Huabao Sports Exhibition Hotel here for the first joint meeting, aimed to initially check readiness in terms of competition and training venues, activities designed to be conducted as match day preparations.
AVC Coordinator Mr Shanrit Wongprasert, himself AVC Executive Director, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of AVC President Mrs Rita Subowo, citing that AVC’s sincere gratitude goes to CVA and Jiangmen City for their great contribution in hosting the championship.
“It was not easy to have a host nation and host city for an underage championship and AVC Board of Administration appreciated Jiangmen’s great effort and contributions for hosting this prestigious event. With good cooperation between Control Committee, Local Organizing Committee, referees, team officials and participating teams, I wish this championship a smooth run and all participating…
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