The revised calendar for the 2016-2019 indoor volleyball competitions has been recently released by the Asian Volleyball Confederation, with Thailand receiving the AVC's green light to host major tournaments for three consecutive years.
This year, all eyes will be on Thailand when the sports-loving country will host one of the most-watched competitions in the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals (Group 1) in Bangkok from July 6 to 10, which will see the best five teams after the three-week preliminaries plus hosts Thailand vie for the top honour.
In the same month, Thailand, where the AVC Headquarters is located in its capital city, will organise the 18th Asian Women's U19 Championship in Nakhon Ratchasima from July 23 to 31. Thailand has also got the AVC's nod to host three major competitions in the next three years. In the following year, the country will become the battle ground for the second Asian Women's U23 Championship in the fourth week of May.
In 2018, Thailand will host the sixth AVC Cup for Women in the first week of July. Volleyball will again hit a fever pitch in Thailand in 2019 when they will organise the 20th Asian Senior Women's Championship in the fourth week of June. When the 2013 edition of the Asian Senior Women's Championship was hosted by Thailand in Nakhon Ratchasima, it turned out to be a volleyball phenomenon when local spectators started to arrive at the competition venue as early as midnight in an effort of booking the tickets. Still, thousands of fans made a long queue each morning, waiting patiently for their turns to book tickets. At around 8 am, all tickets were sold out, smashing dreams of hundreds of fans to watch the match at the jampacked actual venue.
Meanwhile, a total of six AVC competitions will be held this year. Chinese Taipei will get the 2016 volleyball events off the ground when they will host the 18th Asian Men's U20 Championship from July 9 to 17, followed by the 18th Asian Women's U19 Championship in Thailand between July 23 and 31.
After the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21, Myanmar, following their significant success in organising the inaugural Asian Men's U23 Championship last year, will take a major step in hosting the 2016 Asian Men's Club Championship from August 23 to 31. The 2016 Asian Women's Club Championship will take place in the Philippines during September 3 and 11.
In the same month, the fifth AVC Cup for Women will be held in Vietnam from September 12 to 18, with the fifth AVC Cup for Men starting the next day in India between September 19 and 25.
The indoor volleyball will approach its peak in Asia in 2017 which has been regarded as one of the busiest years ever for the AVC. A total of eight AVC competitions will be held across the continent, starting with the 2017 Asian Men's Club Championship in Malaysia in the first week of April, followed by the 2017 Asian Women's Club Championship in Chinese Taipei in the second week of April.
In May, Australia will organise the second Asian Men's U23 Championship in the third week of the month, with Thailand hosting the second edition of the women's competition in the fourth week of the month.
Three tournaments will be held in June. Myanmar will kick off the month with the 11th Asian Boys U19 Championship in the second week of the month, followed respectively by the 11th Asian Girls U18 Championship in Vietnam in the third week and the 19th Asian Senior Women's Championship in the Philippines in the fourth week.
In the first week of July, Indonesia, which will host the next Asian Games in 2018, will hold the 19th Asian Senior Men's Championship, the last stop of the AVC competition in 2017.
In 2018, the first AVC competition will start with the Asian Men's Club Championship to be hosted by India in the first week of April, followed by the Asian Women's Club Championship in Chinese Taipei in the second week of April.
Thailand will organise the sixth AVC Cup for Women in the first week of July, with Vietnam holding the 19th Asian Women's U19 Championship in the third week of July.
Iran and Malaysia have shown their interests in staging the 19th Asian Men's U20 Championship in the first week of August and AVC will later decide the right host nation. In the second week of August, Chinese Taipei will stage the sixth AVC Cup for Men.
From December 5 to 20, Indonesia will host the 19th Asian Games, a Pancontinental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia.
The year 2019 will turn out to be another busy year for the AVC when a total of eight competitions will be held. However, among the eight tournaments to be contested, six of them have yet confirmed the host nations. Thailand will organise the 20th Asian Senior Women's Championship in the fourth week of June, followed by the 20th Asian Senior Men's Championship in Australia in the first week of July.
Earlier, the 2019 Asian Men's Club Championship will take place in the first week of April, with the Asian Women's Club Championship being held the following week.
In May, the third edition of the Asian U23 Championship for the men's and women's events will be held in the third and the fourth weeks respectively.
The 12th Asian Boys U19 Championship will be organised in the second week of June, followed by the 12th episode of the Girls event in the third week of the month.
Opportunity is still open for interested countries to host the mentioned six tournaments. To become the candidate countries for any 2019 AVC competitions which have yet confirmed the host nations, the interested countries have to contact the AVC Headquarters in Bangkok earlier to make sure their applications will be submitted in time.
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