Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Badminton is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England. This will be the fifteenth staging of badminton at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically.

Badminton
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
VenueNational Exhibition Centre
Dates29 July – 8 August 2022
Badminton at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesmenwomen
Mixeddoublesteam

The competition is scheduled to take place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across six events.[1][2]

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:[1][2]

GPreliminary matches (group) PPreliminary matches (knockout) ¼Quarter-finals ½Semi-finals BBronze medal match FGold medal match
Date
Event
Fri 29Sat 30Sun 31Mon 1Tue 2Wed 3Thu 4Fri 5Sat 6Sun 7Mon 8
Session →MAEMAEAEAEAEMEMEAEAEMEM
Men's singlesPPP¼½BF
Men's doublesPP¼½BF
Women's singlesPPP¼½BF
Women's doublesPP¼½BF
Mixed doublesPPP¼½BF
Mixed teamGG¼½BF

Venue

The badminton competition will be held at the National Exhibition Centre.[3] Five other sports - boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting - will also take place there.[4]

Qualification (mixed team)

All nations can enter whoever they wish (up to five men and five women overall) in the singles and doubles events.

In addition, sixteen nations are also entitled to contest the mixed team event; subject to at least four CGF regions being represented and a minimum entry of two men / two women per team, they qualify as follows:[5][6]

  • The host nation.
  • The top fourteen nations in the BWF World Ranking as of 1 February 2022, excluding the host nation. Their highest-ranked players in each of the five individual rankings are added together to determine the combined ranking.
  • One nation not already qualified receives a CGF/BWF Bipartite Invitation.
Means of qualification Date Quotas Qualified
Host Nation N/A 1  England
BWF World Ranking 1 February 2022 14  India
 Malaysia
 Canada
 Singapore
 Scotland
 Australia
 Nigeria
 New Zealand[lower-alpha 1]
 Sri Lanka
 Mauritius
 South Africa
 Maldives
 Uganda
 Jamaica
 Barbados
Bipartite Invitation 8 March 2022 1  Pakistan
TOTAL16
Note
  1. Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.

In contrast to other sports with a qualifying system, all badminton player selections will come from their nations' open allocation quotas regardless of mixed team qualification.

References
  1. "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  2. Competition Schedule | Badminton (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 10, 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  3. "NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". The NEC. 19 October 2018. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  4. "Venues | THE NEC". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  5. "CGF Sport Update" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport. 24 March 2022. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  6. Athlete Allocation System | Badminton Team (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / BWF. 1 October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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