The 2024 Asian Volleyball Club Championship will take place from September 22 to 29 in Nakhon Ratchasima (Thailand). According to the regulations, the top two teams of the tournament (champion and runner-up) will qualify for the FIVB Women's Club World Championship 2024, held in December in China.
Vietnam's hopes are placed on two representatives, LPB Ninh Binh and Duc Giang Chemicals. This is the first time Vietnamese volleyball has two teams participating at the same time in the Asian Club Championship.
Both Duc Giang Chemicals and LPB Ninh Binh are the most outstanding representatives of Vietnamese women's volleyball. Therefore, fans are eagerly waiting for the performance of the players on both sides, and at the same time hope that Vietnam will have a place in the world tournament from this Asian tournament.
With LPB Ninh Binh, they are the number 1 hope of Vietnamese volleyball in this tournament. Coach Thai Thanh Tung has the strongest force, including 13 members. These are all faces who participated in phase I of the 2024 national championship.
Nguyen Thi Bich Tuyen continues to be the most important star of the team with the captain's armband. LPB Ninh Binh's foreign player is still the young talent of Thai women's volleyball team Warisara. Besides, names like Hoai Mi, Nguyen Thi Trinh, Le Thanh Thuy, Dinh Thi Thuy,... promise to help strengthen LPB Ninh Binh, especially in the attack.
Bich Tuyen is one of the most watched athletes at the tournament. With her high performance and impressive scoring efficiency, coach Thai Thanh Tung will certainly build a style of play around this 2000-born player.
Meanwhile, Duc Giang Chemicals brought to Thailand a squad of 14 players including familiar names such as Tran Tu Linh, Ly Thi Luyen and Tran Thi Bich Thuy. The notable highlights of this team belong to the two foreign players Tichaya Boonlert (Thailand) and Elina Samoilenko (Russia). In addition, the return of libero Le Thi Thanh Lien also helps Duc Giang Chemicals' force to be more qualified in the upcoming tournament.
According to the regulations, all 8 participating teams will go straight to the quarter-finals, then gradually be eliminated in knockout matches to find the champion. This competition format is similar to the VTV Cup 2024 that just ended at the end of August in Ninh Binh.
Therefore, LPB Ninh Binh and Duc Giang Chemicals need to make efforts in each match and have careful calculations if they want to complete the goal of winning tickets to participate in the world playground.
In 2023, the Vietnamese women's volleyball team participated in the Asian Women's Club Championship, held in Vinh Phuc under the name Sport Center 1. Thanh Thuy and her teammates defeated the Diamond Food-Fine Chef team (Thailand) in the final to win the championship and earn a ticket to the 2023 Club World Cup in China. In that tournament, Vietnam ranked 6th out of 6.
In fact, the team that won the Asian championship and qualified for the 2023 world championship of Vietnamese volleyball is the national women's team. Therefore, fans are expecting and waiting for LPB Ninh Binh or Duc Giang Chemicals to play well to realize the fact that a club-level team creates an image for Vietnamese volleyball in particular.
