The BWF World Junior Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation, introduced since January 2011. Players must be under 19 years of age to be eligible in the World Junior Rankings. Players will be removed from the World Junior Ranking once they have reached 19 years of age on 1 January. In doubles, players will be ranked as individuals and not as pairs.
Points system Badminton Asia Confederation may select up to two tournaments to upgrade to European Junior Championships level and up to three tournaments to the upgraded Asian and European Tournaments level as stated in World Junior ranking table below. Badminton Europe can select up to three tournaments to upgrade to the upgraded Asian and European International Tournaments level. Points are awarded according to the following table:
ChampionshipsWinnerRunner-up3/45/89/1617/3233/6465/128129/256257/512513/1024World Junior6,0005,1004,2003,3002,4001,5006003001206030Asian Junior4,6003,9003,2102,5201,8001,100440215 European Junior and Upgraded Asian International Tournaments3,5002,9752,4501,9251,375835330160653015Upgraded Asian and European Junior International Tournaments2,5002,1251,7501,375960585230110452013Asian and European International Tournaments2,0001,7001,4001,10076046018085351510African, Pan American and Oceania Continental Junior1,2501,0658756854602751055020105African, Pan American and Oceania Junior International Tournaments850710585460300 17565301053
Year-end number one players YearBoys' singlesGirls' singlesBoys' doublesGirls' doublesMixed doubles2011 Viktor Axelsen Ratchanok Intanon Teo Ee Yi Shin Seung-chan Jim Middelburg Soraya de Visch Eijbergen2012 Kento Momota Nozomi Okuhara Arya Maulana Aldiartama Edi Subaktiar Edi Subaktiar Melati Daeva Oktaviani2013 Wang Tzu-wei Aya Ohori Liu Yuchen Li Junhui Chae Yoo-jung Kim Ji-won Choi Sol-gyu2014 Shi Yuqi Akane Yamaguchi Huang Kaixiang Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan Chen Qingchen 2015 Firman Abdul Kholik He Bingjiao Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen Zheng Siwei2016 Kantaphon Wangcharoen Chen Yufei Zhou Haodong Han Chengkai Nami Matsuyama He Jiting2017 Kunlavut Vitidsarn Gregoria Mariska Tunjung Kim Won-ho Baek Ha-na Kim Won-ho 2018 Kunlavut Vitidsarn Wang Zhiyi Di Zijian Liu Xuanxuan Liu Xuanxuan 2019 An Se-young Di Zijian Wang Chang Nita Violina Marwah Putri Syaikah Feng Yanzhe2020 Christo Popov An Se-young Mads Vestergaard Zhou Xinru Indah Cahya Sari Jamil2021 Varun Kapur Tasnim Mir William Kryger Boe Ania Setien Lucía Rodríguez Lev Barinov Anastasiia Boiarun2022 Alex Lanier Anupama Upadhyaya Nge Joo Jie Johann Prajogo Meilysa Trias Puspita Sari Rachel Allessya Rose Andjela Vitman2023 Alwi Farhan Tomoka Miyazaki Aaron Tai Nao Yamakita Mei Sudo Huang Kexin 2024 Hu Zhe'an Aaron Tai Camille Pognante Lin Xiangyi Kang Khai Xing 2025 Garret Tan Tanvi Sharma Kryštof Coufal Napapakorn Tungkasatan Cheung Sai Shing No. 1 during every week of the year
Number one ranked players
The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since 29 December 2011 (current number one players are marked in bold):
Last update: 8 January 2026
NOTE: BWF has frozen the World Rankings from 17 March until 11 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rankings updated occasionally, not every weeks.
Boys' singles # Player Date started Date ended Consecutiveweeks Totalweeks 1 Viktor Axelsen 29 December 2011 4 January 2012 1 (1) 2 Zulfadli Zulkiffli 5 January 2012 11 January 2012 1 (1) Viktor Axelsen 12 January 2012 25 April 2012 15 (16) Zulfadli Zulkiffli 26 April 2012 4 July 2012 10 11 Viktor Axelsen 5 July 2012 31 October 2012 17 33 3 Khosit Phetpradab 1 November 2012 7 November 2012 1 1 4 Kento Momota 8 November 2012 3 July 2013 34 34 5 Sitthikom Thammasin 4 July 2013 18 September 2013 11 11 6 Soo Teck Zhi 19 September 2013 6 November 2013 7 7 7 Wang Tzu-wei 7 November 2013 1 January 2014 8 8 8 Aditya Joshi 2 January 2014 26 February 2014 8 8 9 Jonatan Christie 27 February 2014 16 April 2014 7 (7) 10 Shi Yuqi 17 April 2014 1 January 2015 37 37 11 Lin Guipu 2 January 2015 11 March 2015 10 10 Jonatan Christie 12 March 2015 15 April 2015 5 12 12 Firman Abdul Kholik 16 April 2015 22 September 2015 23 (23) 13 Anders Antonsen 23 September 2015 14 October 2015 3 3 Firman Abdul Kholik 15 October 2015 6 January 2016 12 35 14 Siril Verma 7 January 2016 17 February 2016 6 (6) 15 Kantaphon Wangcharoen 18 February 2016 2 November 2016 37 (37) Siril Verma 3 November 2016 9 November 2016 1 7 Kantaphon Wangcharoen 10 November 2016 4 January 2017 8 45 16 Lee Chia-hao 5 January 2017 1 February 2017 4 4 17 Lakshya Sen 2 February 2017 6 September 2017 31 31 18 Kunlavut Vitidsarn 7 September 2017 6 January 2020 122 122 19 Christo Popov 7 January 2020 31 December 2020 52 52 20 Mads Juel Møller 1 January 2021 10 November 2021 45 45 21 Varun Kapur 11 November 2021 31 December 2021 8 8 22 Prince Dahal 1 January 2022 3 January 2022 1 1 23 Justin Hoh 4 January 2022 1 August 2022 30 30 24 Alex Lanier 2 August 2022 15 August 2022 2 (2) 25 Sankar Subramanian 16 August 2022 29 August 2022 2 2 Alex Lanier 30 August 2022 9 October 2023 58 60 26 Alwi Farhan 10 October 2023 1 January 2024 12 12 27 Hu Zhe'an 2 January 2024 6 January 2025 6 (6) 28 Bharath Latheesh 13 February 2024 11 March 2024 4 4 Hu Zhe'an 12 March 2024 7 October 2024 30 (36) 29 Zaki Ubaidillah 8 October 2024 14 October 2024 1 (1) Hu Zhe'an 15 October 2024 6 January 2025 12 48 Zaki Ubaidillah 7 January 2025 29 December 2025 51 52 30 Garret Tan 30 December 2025
Girls' singles # Player Date started Date ended Consecutiveweeks Totalweeks 1 Ratchanok Intanon 29 December 2011 4 January 2012 1 (1) 2 Nozomi Okuhara 5 January 2012 11 January 2012 1 (1) Ratchanok Intanon 12 January 2012 18 July 2012 27 (28) Nozomi Okuhara 19 July 2012 31 October 2012 15 (16) Ratchanok Intanon 1 November 2012 7 November 2012 1 29 Nozomi Okuhara 8 November 2012 17 July 2013 36 52 3 Busanan Ongbamrungphan 18 July 2013 30 October 2013 15 (15) 4 Aya Ohori 31 October 2013 6 November 2013 1 (1) Busanan Ongbamrungphan 7 November 2013 4 December 2013 4 19 Aya Ohori 3 December 2013 26 February 2014 12 13 5 Akane Yamaguchi 27 February 2014 18 November 2015 90 90 6 He Bingjiao 19 November 2015 6 January 2016 7 7 7 Chen Yufei 7 January 2016 3 February 2016 4 (4) 8 Goh Jin Wei 4 February 2016 16 March 2016 6 (6) 9 Pornpawee Chochuwong 17 March 2016 13 July 2016 17 17 Chen Yufei 14 July 2016 14 September 2016 9 (13) Goh Jin Wei 15 September 2016 5 October 2016 3 (9) Chen Yufei 6 October 2016 12 October 2016 1 (14) Goh Jin Wei 13 October 2016 16 November 2016 5 (14) Chen Yufei 17 November 2016 4 January 2017 7 21 Goh Jin Wei 5 January 2017 7 June 2017 22 (36) 10 Yeo Jia Min 8 June 2017 21 June 2017 2 (2) 11 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 22 June 2017 5 July 2017 2 (2) Goh Jin Wei 6 July 2017 19 July 2017 2 (38) Yeo Jia Min 20 July 2017 26 July 2017 1 3 Goh Jin Wei 27 July 2017 13 September 2017 7 45 12 Lalinrat Chaiwan 14 September 2017 8 November 2017 8 (8) Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 9 November 2017 3 January 2018 8 10 Lalinrat Chaiwan 4 January 2018 25 July 2018 29 (37) 13 Wang Zhiyi 26 July 2018 1 January 2019 23 23 Lalinrat Chaiwan 2 January 2019 14 October 2019 41 78 14 Zhou Meng 15 October 2019 28 October 2019 2 2 15 An Se-young 29 October 2019 31 December 2020 62 62 16 Stephanie Widjaja 1 January 2021 10 November 2021 46 46 17 Tasnim Mir 11 November 2021 3 January 2022 8 (8) 18 Sirada Roongpiboonsopit 4 January 2022 1 August 2022 30 (30) Tasnim Mir 2 August 2022 5 September 2022 5 (13) 19 Anupama Upadhyaya 6 September 2022 26 September 2022 3 (3) Tasnim Mir 27 September 2022 17 October 2022 3 16 Sirada Roongpiboonsopit 18 October 2022 7 November 2022 3 33 Anupama Upadhyaya 8 November 2022 28 November 2022 3 (6) 20 Ester Nurumi Tri Wardoyo 29 November 2022 19 December 2022 3 (3) Anupama Upadhyaya 20 December 2022 23 January 2023 5 11 Ester Nurumi Tri Wardoyo 24 January 2023 10 April 2023 11 14 21 Pitchamon Opatniputh 11 April 2023 8 May 2023 4 4 22 Hina Akechi 9 May 2023 19 June 2023 6 6 23 Tomoka Miyazaki 20 June 2023 9 October 2023 16 (16) 24 Pitchamon Opatniputh 10 October 2023 13 November 2023 5 9 Tomoka Miyazaki 14 November 2023 14 October 2024 48 (64) 25 Sarunrak Vitidsarn 15 October 2024 25 November 2024 6 6 Tomoka Miyazaki 26 November 2024 6 January 2025 6 70 26 Xu Wenjing 7 January 2025 3 March 2025 8 8 27 Anyapat Phichitpreechasak 4 March 2025 30 June 2025 17 (17) 28 Tanvi Sharma 1 July 2025 13 October 2025 15 (15) Anyapat Phichitpreechasak 14 October 2025 20 October 2025 1 18 Tanvi Sharma 21 October 2025
Boys' doubles