The tournament will serve as the Asian qualifiers for the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship held in Ljubljana and Maribor, Slovenia with the top two ranked teams qualifying for the world championship.

As hosts, Thailand automatically participated for the tournament, while the remaining 12 teams (with the withdrawn of South Korea, China, and Philippines).

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2015 Asian Women's U23 Volleyball Championship.

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

Players born after 1 January 1995 are eligible to compete in the tournament.