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AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading FUND SUMMARIES AZL MVP FUSIONSM BALANCED FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading   Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation with preservation of capital as an important consideration.
 
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading   Fees and Expenses Fees and Expenses of the Fund
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock
The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. The Fund is offered exclusively as an investment option for certain Contracts. The table below reflects only Fund expenses and does not reflect Contract fees and expenses. If Contract fees and expenses were included, the fees and expenses in the following table would be higher. Please refer to the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination April 30, 2023
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 9% of the average value of its portfolio.
 
Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 9.00%
Expenses Not Correlated to Ratio Due to Acquired Fund Fees [Text] rr_ExpensesNotCorrelatedToRatioDueToAcquiredFundFees Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the Fund’s Financial Highlights, the Fund’s total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights table.
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same, and that you reinvest all dividends and distributions. It does not reflect any Contract fees. It reflects the management fee waiver agreement for the first year. If Contract fees were included, the costs shown would be higher. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading   Investments, Risks, and Performance Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock
The Fund is a fund of funds that, under normal market conditions, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in the shares of other mutual funds managed by the Manager or affiliates of the Manager. The Fund is designed to provide a diversified portfolio consisting of funds in equity and fixed income asset classes. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 95% of its assets to the underlying funds, which will be allocated approximately 50% to underlying equity funds and 50% to underlying fixed income funds.
In addition, under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 5% of its assets to the MVP risk management process, described below.
The investment results of the underlying funds will vary. As a result, the Manager monitors the actual allocations to the underlying funds daily and periodically adjusts the actual allocations to attempt to achieve the target allocation. Generally, the Manager will seek to maintain the actual fund allocations to target using the cash flows that result from
contract holders buying or selling shares in the Fund. However, if cash flows were insufficient to maintain the target allocations, the Manager would then buy or sell underlying funds as necessary to attempt to return the Fund’s actual asset allocations to the targets. Generally, the actual allocations will not be more than 10% above or below the targets. 
The Manager utilizes a strategic asset allocation process to help determine appropriate asset allocations for the Fund among the underlying funds. 
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 95% of its assets to the underlying funds as described above, and approximately 5% of the Fund’s assets may be invested in equity and/or fixed income futures, such as S&P 500 Index futures and U.S. Treasury futures, which generally are liquid. The futures strategy, called the MVP risk management process, involves a quantitative analysis and seeks to reduce the volatility of the Fund. Volatility refers to the amount by which the price of an investment can change over a period of time. High volatility indicates that the price has changed significantly, up or down, over a short time period; lower volatility indicates that the price is not changing dramatically, but at a steady pace over a period of time. Generally, higher volatility is considered to be more risky. 
The goal of the MVP process is to achieve Fund volatility at or below 10% on an annualized basis over a full business cycle by either increasing or decreasing the exposure to equities over time. The Fund seeks to accomplish this primarily by selling equity index futures when markets experience heightened volatility, and by buying equity index futures when markets experience normal or lower levels of volatility. Futures are intended to provide the Manager an effective method to reduce volatility of the Fund and limit the need to decrease or increase allocations to the underlying funds. As a result, the MVP process could cause the equity exposure of the Fund to fluctuate significantly but it will generally not be lower than 10%. The MVP process would generally not reduce equity exposure during periods of moderate and low market volatility but during periods of extreme market volatility the MVP process could result in Fund equity exposure that is significantly lower than 10%. 
Due to market conditions or other factors, the actual or realized volatility of the Fund for any particular period of time may be materially higher than the threshold volatility level. The Fund’s threshold volatility level is not a total return performance target. It is possible for the Fund to maintain its volatility at or under its threshold volatility level while having negative performance returns. 
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock
The price per share of the Fund will fluctuate with changes in the value of the investments held by the Fund. You may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective.
The following is a summary of the principal risks to which the Fund’s portfolio as a whole is subject, any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (NAV), yield, total return and ability to achieve its investment objective. As changes occur in a Fund’s portfolio holdings, the extent to which the portfolio is subject to each of these risks may also change.
Allocation Risk – The Manager’s decisions regarding how the Fund’s assets should be allocated among the various underlying funds, may cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives. There can be no guarantee that investment decisions made by the Manager will produce the desired results. Further, because the Manager has limited discretion to change the overall asset allocation among equity funds and fixed income funds or the under normal market conditions, the Fund may underperform comparable funds of funds for which the fund’s manager has such discretion to adjust allocations.
Futures Risk – Because the Fund may utilize futures pursuant to its MVP risk management process, the Fund also is subject to derivatives risk, including risks related to futures. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks that may be different from or greater than the risks associated with investing directly in securities or other traditional investments. The value of futures contracts depend primarily upon the price of the securities, indexes, commodities, currencies or other instruments underlying them. Price movements are also influenced by, among other things, interest rates, changing supply and demand relationships, trade, fiscal, monetary, and exchange control programs and policies of governments, and national and international political and economic events and policies. The cost of futures may also be related, in part, to the degree of volatility of the underlying indices, securities, currencies, or other assets. Accordingly, futures on highly volatile indices, securities, currency, or other assets may be more expensive than futures on other investments. Changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
  
Volatility Risk – Although the Fund’s investment strategy seeks not to exceed a specific volatility level, certain of the Fund’s investments may appreciate or decrease significantly in value over short periods of time, which may cause the Fund’s net asset value per share to experience significant increases or declines in value over short periods of time. The Fund’s volatility strategy may not produce the desired result and there can be no guarantee that the Fund will maintain volatility at or below its threshold volatility level. Additionally, maintenance of the volatility level will not ensure that the Fund will deliver competitive returns. The use of derivatives in connection with the Fund’s volatility strategy may expose the Fund to losses (some of which may be sudden) that it would not have otherwise been exposed to if it had only invested directly in equity and/or fixed income securities. Further, in some market conditions the Fund may either underperform or outperform as a direct result of the MVP process. The Fund may, for example, outperform in downward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low) and underperform in upward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low). 
Quantitative Investing Risk – The value of securities selected using quantitative analysis can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than the market as a whole or securities selected using only fundamental analysis. The factors used in quantitative analysis and the weight placed on those factors may not be predictive of a security’s value. In addition, factors that affect a security’s value can change over time and these changes may not be reflected in the quantitative model. A quantitative model can be adversely affected by errors or imperfections in the factors or the data on which evaluations are based, or by technical issues with construction or implementation of the model, which in any case may result in a failure of the portfolio to perform as expected or a failure to identify securities that will perform well in the future. Successful operation of a quantitative model is also reliant upon the information technology systems of the Manager or Subadviser, as applicable, and its ability to ensure those systems remain operational and that appropriate disaster recovery procedures are in place. There can be no assurance that the Manager or Subadviser will be successful in maintaining effective and operational trading models and the related hardware and software systems. 
Fund of Funds Risk – The Fund, as a shareholder of the underlying funds, indirectly bears its proportionate share of any investment management fees and other expenses of the underlying funds. Further due to the fees and expenses paid by the Fund, as well as small variations in the Fund’s actual allocations to the underlying funds and any futures and cash held in the Fund’s portfolio, the performance and income distributions of the Fund will not be the same as the performance and income distributions of the underlying funds allocated according to the target allocations described here. 
In addition, the Fund bears the investment risks of the investments of the underlying funds. The principal risks associated with the underlying funds include: 
Market Risk – The market value of portfolio securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. 
Issuer Risk – The value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer of the security. 
Capitalization Risk – Investing in small- to mid‑sized companies creates risk because smaller companies may have unpredictable or limited earnings, and their securities may be less liquid or experience more volatile prices than those of large companies. 
Foreign Securities Risk – Investing in the securities of non‑U.S. issuers involves a number of risks, such as fluctuations in currency values, adverse political, social or economic developments, and differences in social and economic developments or policies. 
Emerging Markets Risk – Emerging markets may have less developed or more volatile trading markets and greater likelihood of government restrictions, nationalization, or confiscation than developed countries. Companies in emerging market countries may have less developed legal and accounting systems and generally may be subject to less stringent regulatory, disclosure, financial reporting, accounting, auditing and recordkeeping standards than companies in more developed countries. As a result, information, including financial information, about such companies may be less available and reliable which can impede a fund’s ability to evaluate such companies. Securities law and the enforcement of systems of taxation in many emerging market countries may change quickly and unpredictably, and the ability to bring and enforce actions, or to obtain information needed to pursue or enforce such actions, may be limited. In addition, investments in emerging markets securities may be subject to additional transaction costs, delays in settlement procedures, unexpected market closures, and lack of timely information. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries. 
Depositary Receipt Risk – Depositary receipts involve many of the same risks as those associated with direct investment in foreign securities. Investing in these instruments may expose a fund to credit risk with respect to the issuer of the depositary receipt, in addition to the risks of the underlying investment. 
Sovereign Debt Risk – Sovereign debt instruments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity’s debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies. 
Currency Risk – Investing in securities that trade in and receive revenues in foreign currencies creates risk because foreign currencies may decline relative to the U.S. dollar, resulting in a potential loss to a fund. In the case of hedging positions, the U.S. dollar may decline in value relative to the currency that has been hedged. 
Interest Rate Risk – Debt securities held by a fund may decline in value due to rising interest rates. Interest rates recently have been at historic lows, which may increase the risks associated with rising interest rates. Currently, interest rates are at or near historic lows, which may increase the risk that interest rates will rise. 
Credit Risk – The failure of the issuer of a debt security to pay interest or repay principal in a timely manner may have an adverse impact on a fund’s earnings. 
Income Risk – Falling interest rates may cause a fund’s income to decline. 
Call Risk – If interest rates fall, issuers of callable debt securities are more likely to prepay prior to the maturity date. A fund may not be able to reinvest the proceeds from the prepayment in investments that will generate the same level of income. 
Extension Risk – If interest rates rise, debt securities may be paid in full more slowly than anticipated. Interest rates recently have been at historic lows, which may increase the risks associated with rising interest rates. 
U.S. Government Obligations Risk – Certain securities in which a may invest, including securities issued by certain government agencies and government sponsored enterprises, are not guaranteed by the U.S. Government or supported by the full faith and credit of the United States. 
Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney You may lose money by investing in the Fund.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text] rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Performance Information
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock
The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year, five years, and ten years compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500 Index. The Fund’s performance also is compared to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of a broad index of investment-grade fixed-rate debt issues, and to a Balanced Composite Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500 Index (50%) and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (50%) in proportions similar to the equity to fixed income allocation of the Fund.
Both the bar chart and the table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.
The performance of the Fund will vary from year to year. The Fund’s performance does not reflect the cost of insurance and separate account charges which are imposed under your Contract. If they were included, performance would be reduced. Past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Prior to February 1, 2021, the Fund was managed pursuant to different investment strategies and known as the AZL MVP Fusion Dynamic Balanced Fund. Consequently, the performance information shown below for periods prior to February 1, 2021, reflects the Fund’s prior investment strategies and not its current investment strategies.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year, five years, and ten years compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500 Index.
Performance Additional Market Index [Text] rr_PerformanceAdditionalMarketIndex The Fund’s performance also is compared to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of a broad index of investment-grade fixed-rate debt issues, and to a Balanced Composite Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500 Index (50%) and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (50%) in proportions similar to the equity to fixed income allocation of the Fund.
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture Past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart [Heading] rr_BarChartHeading Performance Bar Chart and Table Annual Return %
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text] rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads The Fund’s performance does not reflect the cost of insurance and separate account charges which are imposed under your Contract. If they were included, performance would be reduced.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock
Highest and Lowest Quarter Returns (for periods shown in the bar chart) 
Highest (Q4, 2020)
      9.02 % 
Lowest (Q1, 2020)
      -12.01 % 
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average Annual Total Returns
Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text] rr_IndexNoDeductionForFeesExpensesTaxes Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.
AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund | AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.20%
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.02%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.72% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 0.94%
Fee Waiver rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.05%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 0.89% [2]
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 91
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 295
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 515
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 1,150
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 91
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 295
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 515
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 1,150
2012 rr_AnnualReturn2012 11.39%
2013 rr_AnnualReturn2013 11.46%
2014 rr_AnnualReturn2014 4.59%
2015 rr_AnnualReturn2015 (1.27%)
2016 rr_AnnualReturn2016 5.40%
2017 rr_AnnualReturn2017 12.23%
2018 rr_AnnualReturn2018 (5.40%)
2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 15.76%
2020 rr_AnnualReturn2020 3.78%
2021 rr_AnnualReturn2021 9.20%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Highest
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Dec. 31, 2020
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 9.02%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Lowest
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2020
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (12.01%)
One Year Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 9.20%
Five Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 6.85%
Ten Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 6.53%
AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund | S&P 500 Index  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
One Year Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 28.71% [3]
Five Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 18.47% [3]
Ten Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 16.55% [3]
AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund | Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index  
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One Year Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 (1.54%) [3]
Five Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 3.57% [3]
Ten Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 2.90% [3]
AZL MVP Fusion Balanced Fund | Balanced Composite Index  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
One Year Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 12.91% [3]
Five Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 11.29% [3]
Ten Years Ended December 31, 2021 rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 9.86% [3]
[1]
Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the Fund’s Financial Highlights, the Fund’s total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights table.
[2]
The Manager and the Fund have entered into a written agreement reducing the management fee to 0.15% through at least April 30, 2023, after which the fee waiver may be terminated by the Manager or the Fund at any time and for any reason.
[3]
Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.