Location of the Badminton Asia Team Championships
| Year | Host City | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 [3] | Hyderabad |  India |
| 2018 [4] | Alor Setar |  Malaysia |
| 2020 [5] | Manila |  Philippines |
| 2022 [6] | Selangor | Malaysia |
| 2024 [7] | ||
| 2026 | Dubai |  United Arab Emirates |
The Badminton Asia Team Championships is a biennial tournament organized by the Badminton Asia (BA) to crown the best men's and women's badminton national teams in Asia.
It started as a standalone event for both men's and women's teams since 2016 and both the team events are conducted simultaneously by Badminton Asia Confederation. [1]
Asian team championships exclusively for Men's team were conducted together with Asian Badminton Championships until 1993 after which the team tournament stopped altogether, only to be commenced 23 years later in 2016 including Women's team event, which also serves as qualification tournament for the Thomas and Uber Cups Finals. [2]
| Year | Host City | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 [3] | Hyderabad | India |
| 2018 [4] | Alor Setar | Malaysia |
| 2020 [5] | Manila | Philippines |
| 2022 [6] | Selangor | Malaysia |
| 2024 [7] | ||
| 2026 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates |
| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Semi-finalists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |  Indonesia |  Japan |  South Korea | India |
| 2018 | Indonesia |  China | Malaysia | South Korea |
| 2020 | Indonesia | Malaysia | India | Japan |
| 2022 | Malaysia | Indonesia |  Singapore | South Korea |
| 2024 | China | Malaysia | Japan | South Korea |
| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Semi-finalists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | China | Japan | South Korea |  Thailand |
| 2018 | Japan | China | Indonesia | South Korea |
| 2020 | Japan | South Korea | Malaysia | Thailand |
| 2022 | Indonesia | South Korea | Malaysia | Japan |
| 2024 | India | Thailand | Japan | Indonesia |
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Malaysia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | India | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Singapore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | |
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | South Korea | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Thailand | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | |
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | China | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Malaysia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | India | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | South Korea | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | Thailand | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Singapore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 | |
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