If there were more than 16 teams applied for participation, participated teams would be determined by: – The host nation – Top 10 ranked teams from the previous edition – Representatives from each of the five Asian Volleyball Confederation Zonal Associations India Iran Kazakhstan Sri Lanka Turkmenistan China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Japan Mongolia South Korea Australia Fiji Vietnam Philippines Thailand The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

The host country and the top 7 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system.

The 8 remaining teams were drawn on 11 February 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand.

[1] Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked 4th) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (-).

Japan played in the Asian Championship with their U-23 national team.