Bids for the Asian Games is the process where National Olympic Committees select from within their national territory cities to put forward bids to host an Asian Games.
| Games | Year | Candidate cities | Non-candidate applicant cities | OCA assembly | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host city | Others | |||||
| I | 1986 details |  Sapporo | Only bid | 3rd Seoul (1984) | [14] | |
| II | 1990 details |  India | Only bid | [24] | ||
| Sapporo | Only bid | 8th Bali (1989) | ||||
| III | 1995 |  Samjiyon | Only bid | |||
| 1996 details |  Harbin |  Gangwon | 12th Kuwait City (1993-12-02) | [25] | ||
| IV | 1999 details | Gangwon | Only bid | |||
| V | 2003 details |  Aomori | Only bid | |||
| VI | 2007 details | Changchun |  Beirut |  Tehran  Almaty | 21st Busan (2002-10-02) | [25] [26] |
| VII | 2009 | Beirut | Only bid | |||
| 2011 details | Astana and Almaty | Only bid | 25th Kuwait City (2006-03-04) | [27] | ||
| VIII | 2017 details | Sapporo and Obihiro | Only bid | 30th Astana (2011-01-31) | [28] | |
| IX | 2025 details | Harbin | Only bid | 42rd | [29] | |
| X | 2029 details |  Trojena | Only bid | 41st Phnom Penh (2022-10-04) | ||
| Games | Year | Candidate cities | Non-candidate applicant cities | OCA assembly | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host city | Others | |||||
| I | 2009 details |  Singapore | Only bid | |||
| II | 2013 details | Nanjing | Only bid | 29th Guangzhou (2010-11-13) | [30] | |
| III | 2017 |  Hambantota | Only bid | No Kuwait City (2012-06-12) | [31] | |
| Jakarta | Only bid | 34th Ashgabat (2015-09-16) | [32] | |||
| 2021 details | Surabaya | Only bid | 31st Macau (2012-11-08) | [20] | ||
| Shantou | Only bid | 38th Bangkok (2019-03-03) | [32] | |||
| IV | 2025 |  Tashkent | Only bid | No Doha (2019-09-28) | [33] | |
| V | 2029 | Phnom Penh | Only bid | 40th Dubai (2021-11-22) | [34] | |
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