2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships

2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships

Tournament details
Dates	6–11 February
Edition	2
Venue	Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium
Location	Alor Setar, Malaysia
Champions
Men's teams	Indonesia
Women's teams	Japan
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The 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships was the second edition of Badminton Asia Team Championships, held at the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium in Alor Setar, Malaysia, from 6 to 11 February 2018 and were organised by the Badminton Asia. This tournament also served as the Asian qualification for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup.

Background

The 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships officially crowned the best male and female national badminton teams in Asia and at the same time worked as the Asian qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 28 teams, consisting of 15 men's teams and 13 women's teams entered the tournament.

Competition format

The competition begins with a group stage: all participating teams are divided into four groups of two or three teams each. Each team plays each other once, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. A match is won by the team that first wins three games. The eight teams that qualify will be drawn and compete in a knockout format until the final.

Tie-breaker

Team ranking within a group is determined based on the following criteria: number of wins; match difference; game difference; and points difference. If two teams are tied after a criterion is applied, the winner of the match between the two teams will be ranked higher. A draw will be held to determine ranking if there are still teams tied after all criteria are applied.

Hosting

On 29 September 2017, Malaysia were chosen to host the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Alor Setar and will be using the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium as the venue for the entire tournament.

Schedule

Day, Date	Time	Phase
Tuesday, 6 February	09:00	Group Stage
	14:00
	19:00
Wednesday, 7 February	09:00	Group Stage
	14:00
	19:00
Thursday, 8 February	09:00	Group Stage
	14:00
	19:00
Friday, 9 February	08:30	Quarter-finals
	17:00
Saturday, 10 February	12:00	Semi-finals
	18:00
Sunday, 11 February	12:00	Finals
	18:00
Note: All times are in Malaysia Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Teams

Further information: 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships men's team squads and 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships women's team squads

The tournament will feature 15 teams competing in the men's category and 13 teams in the women's category.

Nation	Men's	Women's	Nation	Men's	Women's
China			Myanmar		—N/a
Chinese Taipei			Nepal		—N/a
Hong Kong			Philippines
India			Singapore
Indonesia			South Korea
Japan			Thailand
Kazakhstan		—N/a	Vietnam	—N/a
Malaysia			Maldives

Draw

Seedings

The seeding were as follows:

• Men's team

1. China
2. Indonesia
3. Chinese Taipei
4. Japan
5. India
6. South Korea
7. Malaysia
8. Hong Kong

• Women's team

1. Japan
2. China
3. South Korea
4. Thailand
5. Chinese Taipei
6. India
7. Indonesia
8. Malaysia

Drawn groups

The draw was held on 23 January 2018, at the tournament venue. The men's team group stage consisted of one group with three teams and three groups each with four teams. The women's team group stage consisted of three groups each with three teams and one group with four teams.

• Men's team

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
China (1) Hong Kong (8) Singapore	Japan (4) South Korea (6) Nepal Kazakhstan	Chinese Taipei (3) Malaysia (7, H) Thailand Myanmar	Indonesia (2) India (5) Philippines Maldives

• Women's team

Group W	Group X	Group Y	Group Z
Japan (1) India (6) Hong Kong	South Korea (3) Chinese Taipei (5) Maldives	Thailand (4) Malaysia (8, H) Vietnam Philippines	China (2) Indonesia (7) Singapore

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Malaysia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia	1	0	1	2
2	Japan	1	0	0	1
3	China	0	2	0	2
4	South Korea	0	0	2	2
5	Malaysia*	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	4	8

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Indonesia Mohammad Ahsan Jonatan Christie Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Firman Abdul Kholik Ihsan Maulana Mustofa Angga Pratama Rian Agung Saputro Hendra Setiawan Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	China Chai Biao Han Chengkai He Jiting Lu Guangzu Qiao Bin Shi Yuqi Tan Qiang Wang Zekang Zhao Junpeng Zhou Haodong	Malaysia Goh Sze Fei Goh V Shem Nur Izzuddin Lee Chong Wei Lee Zii Jia Ong Yew Sin Soong Joo Ven Tan Wee Kiong Teo Ee Yi Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin
	South Korea Choi Sol-gyu Chung Eui-seok Heo Kwang-hee Jeon Hyeok-jin Kang Min-hyuk Kim Duk-young Kim Won-ho Lee Dong-keun Seo Seung-jae Son Wan-ho
Women's team	Japan Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota Misaki Matsutomo Aya Ohori Nozomi Okuhara Sayaka Sato Ayaka Takahashi Shiho Tanaka Akane Yamaguchi Koharu Yonemoto	China Cao Tongwei Chen Xiaoxin Chen Yufei Dong Wenjing Du Yue Feng Xueying Gao Fangjie He Bingjiao Li Yinhui Zheng Yu	Indonesia Anggia Shitta Awanda Fitriani Della Destiara Haris Ruselli Hartawan Ni Ketut Mahadewi Istarani Greysia Polii Rizki Amelia Pradipta Apriyani Rahayu Hanna Ramadini Gregoria Mariska Tunjung
	South Korea An Se-young Baek Ha-na Chang Ye-na Jeon Joo-i Kim Hye-rin Lee Jang-mi Lee So-hee Lee Yu-rim Shin Seung-chan Sung Ji-hyun

External links

• E-Plus Badminton Asia Team Championships 2018