Paykan qualified to the playoff round of the Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship after a 3-1 win over Pavlodar from Kazakhstan in Pool F on Monday.

Paykan lost the first set 25-22 but the coach Peyman Akbari made a couple of changes and fielded Farhad Salafzoon, Reza Safaei, Alireza Nasr Esfahani, Saeed Mostafavand, Hamzeh Zarini and Masoud Gholami for the second set.

Paykan came from behind to win three straight sets with the scores of (25-15), (25-20), (25-11).

The Iranian representative will next play on Wednesday probably against Migrasiya from Turkmenistan.

The pool round-robin preliminaries started on August 13 at two gymnasiums, with Pool A and Pool B taking place at University of Taipei Hall and Pools C and D at Taipei Gym.

The top two teams from each pool advanced to Pools E and F in the quarterfinals, with teams finishing third and fourth from each pool relegated to the 9th-16th classification round.

The eventual winner of this top-flight tournament will represent Asia to compete in the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship at Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

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