2022 King's Cup Sepaktakraw World Championship

After the excellent success of Thailand to host the 34th King's Cup Sepak Takraw World Championship in 2019, the country prepared to hold the subsequent tournament at the same venue, Fashion Island Sports World in Bangkok, from 20 to 27 September 2020.[3] Nevertheless, during the internal meeting of the Executive Committee of the Takraw Association of Thailand on 27 February 2021, the committee officially endorsed a switching of the tournament venue to the province of Udon Thani, after being requested to host such an event, at the Montatip Hall located on UD Town Department Store in Udon Thani, by the local sports association, with the same schedule as planned.[2][3] Howbeit, the race did not happen due to the global surge of the COVID-19 infection and was postponed to December 2020.[4][5][13][14]

On 5 December 2020, after an annual meeting, the vice-president of the association stated that the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak must still be seen as well as the government travel restrictions during the pandemic, which causes a complicated challenge for the organizer to hold the tournament. Therefore, the 35th King’s Cup World Championship has set a new schedule of competition to be March 2021, with Udon Thani to remain hosting as before.[7][10][13] Nonetheless, the event still could not happen as a result of the spike of COVID-19 infected number in Thailand in early 2021.[8][9]

Later on 27 March 2021, the annual general meeting of the National Olympic Committee of Thailand has addressed the tournament issue and adopted the resolution to reprogramme the tournament to be held in September 2021, in the same host province.[8][15] However, the president citing that the event might be again suspended to be conducted in 2022 instead, in case if the Thailand Coronavirus Disease 2019 Management Center (CDMC) does not allow the international players and staff teams to visit the country without a 14-days quarantine period, which will generate an exceptionally tremendous expense for the federation.[8][9] The association also made an additionally regulation on 4 April 2021, citing all participated players and staff must be full-vaccinated and each has to separately start a 7-day quarantine period at the hotel serving as an alternative quarantine facility before taking part in the tournament, aiming to be the precautionary measure amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In case of COVID-19 crisis worsening, the event will be postponed to January 2022 or until the situation improves.[1]

As of September 27, 2021, three ISTAF membership countries confirmed to participate, including;