ITTF World Cup | |
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Status | Active |
Genre | World Cup |
Frequency | Singles World Cup: Every year Team World Cup: Every two years Mixed World Cup: Every year |
Location(s) | Various |
Inaugurated | 1980 |
Next event | ITTF Men's World Cup ITTF Women's World Cup |
Organised by | ITTF |
Website | ITTF |
The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had only been men's singles until the start of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation and classified as R1 in rating weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking. [1]
In the years 2021-2023, the event has been suspended. A new WTT event, WTT Cup Finals, began in 2021, which is the season-ending championship of the WTT. WTT stated that the winners of the WTT Cup Finals would win the prestigious ITTF World Cup trophies in March 2021, but the winners have been actually presented with WTT Cup Finals specific trophies since the inaugural edition, and the event has been renamed to simply WTT Finals since 2023, making it a pure season-ending event.
ITTF World Cup returned with an innovative Mixed Team format in 2023 in Chengdu, and ITTF Singles World Cup returned in 2024, in Macao, China.
For 2024 singles world cup, participants of the competition composed of: [2]
For previous editions, participants of the competition are composed of: [3]
The 2024 World Cup was divided into 2 stages: [2]
There will be a total of 56 matches (32 in Stage 1 + 24 in Stage 2). In stage 1 the teams will be divided into 4 groups (2 groups of 4 and 2 groups of 5), with all the members of a group playing each other.
For stage 1, the highest-ranked team will be placed in Group 1, the 2nd highest in Group 2, the 3rd highest in Group 3 and the 4th highest in Group 4; the remaining teams will be drawn into the groups 2 at a time in seeding order, with the exception teams 17 and 18 will be drawn into groups 3 and 4.
In stage 2, the group winners and runners-up from Stage 1 will compete in a single group with all the members of a group playing each other, with the exception that teams having played each other in stage 1 will not play again, but the results will carry forward.
The playing system is determined by the executive committee on recommendation by the competition department. [3] The 2009 World Cup was divided into 3 stages. All matches were the best of 7 games. [4]
All team matches are played as the Olympic system with a maximum of 4 singles and 1 doubles. All individual matches of a team match are the best of 5 games. [3] [5]
Year | Host city | Gold | Silver | Semi-finalists |
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2021 | Singapore | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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2022 | Xinxiang | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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2023 | Doha | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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Year | Host city | Gold | Silver | Semi-finalists |
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2021 | Singapore | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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2022 | Xinxiang | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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2023 | Nagoya | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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Year | Host City | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1990 | Seoul | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
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1992 | Las Vegas | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
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Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place |
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![]() | 10 (1991, '94, 2007, '09, '10, '11, '13, '15, '18, '19) | 1 (1990) | 0 |
![]() | 1 (1995) | 4 (2009, '10, '11, '19) | 2 (2007, '18) |
![]() | 1 (1990) | 2 (1991, '94) | 0 |
![]() | 0 | 1 (2018) | 4 (1995, 2011, '13, '19) |
![]() | 0 | 1 (1995) | 3 (2009, '10, '11) |
![]() | 0 | 1 (2015) | 2 (2007, '10) |
![]() | 0 | 1 (2013) | 2 (2015, '19) |
![]() | 0 | 1 (2007) | 1 (2009) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 (1990, '91) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 (1990, 2018) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 (1991, '94) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (1994) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (1995) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (2013) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (2015) |
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place |
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![]() | 11 (1990, '91, '95, 2007, '09, '10, '11, '13, '15, '18, '19) | 0 | 1 (1994) |
![]() | 1 (1994) | 0 | 0 |
![]() | 0 | 2 (2009, '10) | 3 (2011, '13, '15) |
![]() | 0 | 4 (2011, '13, '18, '19) | 4 (1991, 2009, '10, '15) |
![]() | 0 | 2 (1991, 2007) | 3 (1995, 2010, '19) |
![]() | 0 | 2 (1990, 2015) | 2 (1991, 2018) |
![]() | 0 | 1 (1995) | 0 |
![]() | 0 | 1 (1994) | 0 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 5 (2007, '09, '11, '13, '18) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 (1990, '95, 2007) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (1990) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (1994) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 (2019) |