The 2016 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2016 AVC Cup for Men was the fifth edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA).

[1] Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship.

AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship.

Final standing of the 2015 Asian Championship are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 8th.

Thailand (Hosts) China (3) Qatar (4)* Chinese Taipei (6) Japan (1) Iran (2) Australia (5) South Korea (7) *  Kazakhstan replaced Qatar, who withdrew from the tournament.