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Asian Volleyball Confederation

Abbreviation	AVC
Formation	1952; 66 years ago
Type	Sport organisation
Headquarters	Bangkok, Thailand
Region served	Asia and Oceania
Membership	65 member associations
Official language	English
President	Saleh Bin Nasser
Parent organization	FIVB
Website	asianvolleyball.net

The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the governing body for the sports of indoor, beach and grass volleyball in Asia and Australia. It has 65 member countries, mostly located on the Asian and Oceanian continent, but excludes the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Turkey – which are instead members of CEV. Three other states located along the western fringe of Asia – Cyprus, Armenia and Israel – are also CEV members.

The main headquarters is located in are located in Bangkok, Thailand and the current president is Saleh A. Bin Nasser.

The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) was established on May 6, 1952, and since then AVC has become one of the largest continental volleyball associations in the world, with its member federations increasing to 65 from only 12 at the time of its set-up. The first concept of the AVC was launched by the initiative of the late Mr. Nishikawa of Japan on April 1952, and on May 6 of the same year, AVC was officially established with 12 countries participating. The major tasks of AVC at the time were the organization of the men's and women's Asian Championships and the Volleyball Tournaments at the Asian Games.

In 1962, AVC was renamed the Asian Volleyball Federation (AVF) with 20 affiliated national federations after the FIVB Congress held in September 1961 decided to establish the continental zone committee.