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Thailand men's national volleyball team

The Thailand men's national volleyball team (Thai: วอลเลย์บอลชายทีมชาติไทย) represents Thailand in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches, governed by Thailand Volleyball Association.

The team won a gold medal in the 2023 AVC Men's Challenge Cup at the Taipei, Taiwan and represent AVC at the 2023 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup for finding one team to qualify for the 2024 VNL. The tournament was held at Aspire Ladies Sports Hall in Doha, Qatar, between 28 and 30 July 2023.

History

Volleyball had spread into Thailand since before 1900s. In the past, volleyball was a popular sport among the Chinese and Vietnamese. Until there was competition between the clubs and community associations, sometimes contacted to compete in the Northern region, Northeastern region and The Gold Cup volleyball tournament in the Southern Region.

Since 1934 the Ministry of Education published rules of volleyball by Noppakun Pongsuwan. He was an expert person on sports, especially volleyball. He invited a lecture on how to play, the rules of volleyball to physical education teachers. After that, Department of Physical Education had provide an annual girls' volleyball tournament. For the first time, Department of Physical Education had set course of the central physical education school for girls' student to studied Volleyball and Netball.

In 1957, Nawa Akat Ek Luang Supachalasai, Director of the Department of Physical Education had been established the "Amateur Volleyball Association of Thailand" (), with the aim to supported and publicized the progress volleyball and managed a 6 players volleyball tournament and the annual volleyball competition in other government office, such as the Department of Physical Education, University Sports Committee, Bangkok Municipality, Military Sports Council, as well as the Thailand National Games volleyball tournament in women's and men's volleyball.

Medals

Competition record

World Championship

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Challenger Cup

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Asian Championship

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Asian Games

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Asian Nations Cup

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Asian Cup

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

SEA Games

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

SEA V.League

Champions   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

Results and fixtures

2025

2025 Asian Nations Cup




2025 SEA V.League








2025 SEA Games





Team

Current squad

The following is Thailand roster for the 2025 Asian Nations Cup.

Head coach: Park Ki-won

World Rankings

  • 2005: No. 30
  • 2006: No. 30
  • 2007: No. 34
  • 2008: No. 28
  • 2009: No. 32
  • 2010: No. 49
  • 2011: No. 46
  • 2012: No. 48
  • 2013: No. 34
  • 2014: No. 37
  • 2016: No. 43
  • 2017: No. 41
  • 2018: No. 43
  • 2019: No. 45
  • 2020: No. 45
  • 2020: No. 43
  • 2021: No. 54
  • 2022: No. 52
  • 2023: No. 64
  • 2024: No. 57
  • 2025: No. 59

Former squads

World Championship

Asian Championship

Asian Games

Asian Cup

List of notable former players

See also

References