The 16 AVC member associations submitted their men's national team to the 2017 Asian Championship. The 16 AVC member associations were from 5 zonal associations, including, Central Asia (4 teams), East Asia (5 teams), Oceania (1 team), Southeast Asia (3 teams), and West Asian teams (3 teams).
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 22 August 2016.[1] AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 February 2017.[2] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 42nd.
If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round.