Myanmar to host Asian Men’s Club Championship Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, August 17, 2016 – Myanmar will host the SMM 2016 Yangon Aerodrome Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship, which is scheduled between August 23 and 31 in Nay Pyi Taw, with 15 teams testing their mettle for the top of the podium. All participating teams have been split into four pools to contest the group round-robin preliminaries consisting of Pool A, Pool B, Pool C and Pool D. Hosts Myanmar, Turkmenistan’s Nebitchi, and Vietnam’s Maseco are in Pool A, while Pool B features Indonesia’s Surabaya Samator, Japan’s Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza, Iraq’s Gas Aljanoob and Chinese Taipei’s Taiwan Power. Pool C consists of the UAE’s Al Jazira, Qatar’s Al Arabi Sports Club, Thailand’s Wing 46 Toyota-Phitsanulok and Shanghai Golden Age from China, with Malaysia, Iran’s Bank Sarmayeh, Kazakhstan’s Altay VC and Lo Kon Ting Volleyball Association (LKTVBA) from Hong Kong in Pool D. The pool preliminaries will be held from August 23 to 25. August 26 will be the rest day, while the intense competition will resume on August 27 and run through August 31, with teams pitted in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the finals. Only top two teams from each […]
