The 2026 Thomas & Uber Cup was the 34th edition of the Thomas Cup and the 31st edition of the Uber Cup, hosted by Badminton Denmark and organised by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournaments were held at Horsens, Denmark, from 24 April to 3 May 2026.
China successfully defended the Thomas Cup title after defeating France, bringing their total number of championships to 12. South Korea defeated defending champions China to win the Uber Cup for the third time.
Background The Thomas Cup (named after Sir George Thomas) and Uber Cup (named after Betty Uber) are international badminton competitions featuring teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the global governing body for the sport and are held biennially since the 1984 edition. These tournaments aim to determine the best national teams in the men's and women's events, respectively. China are the defending champions, having defeated Indonesia in both the men's and women's team events in the previous edition respectively.
Hosting Denmark will be hosting the Thomas and Uber Cup finals for the second time. The city of Aarhus hosted the postponed 2020 edition in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, Horsens has been selected as the host city for the tournament.
Format The competition begins with a group stage: the sixteen qualified teams are divided into four groups of four teams each. Each team will play each other once, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. The eight qualified teams will be drawn and compete in a knockout format until the final.
Qualification Denmark automatically qualified as the hosts and China qualified as the defending champions, respectively.
Thomas Cup
Means of qualification Date Venue Slot Qualified teams Host country 1 May 2024 1 2024 Thomas Cup Champion 27 April – 5 May 2024 Chengdu 1 2026 Asia Team Championships 3–8 February 2026 Qingdao 4 2026 All Africa Team Championships 9–12 February 2026 Gaborone 1 2026 European Team Championships 11–15 February 2026 Istanbul 4 2026 Pan Am Male & Female Cup 12–15 February 2026 Guatemala City 1 2026 Oceania Team Championships 13–15 February 2026 Auckland 1 World Team Rankings 17 February 2026 rowspan="3" 3 Total 16
Uber Cup
Means of qualification Date Venue Slot Qualified teams Host country 1 May 2024 1 2024 Uber Cup Champion 27 April – 5 May 2024 Chengdu 1 2026 Asia Team Championships 3–8 February 2026 Qingdao 4 2026 All Africa Team Championships 9–12 February 2026 Gaborone 1 2026 European Team Championships 11–15 February 2026 Istanbul 4 2026 Pan Am Male & Female Cup 12–15 February 2026 Guatemala City 1 2026 Oceania Team Championships 13–15 February 2026 Auckland 1 World Team Rankings 17 February 2026 rowspan="3" 3 Total 16
Draw The draw for the tournament was conducted on 18 March at 15:00 CSTT, at Chengdu, China. The 16 men and 16 women teams were drawn into four groups of four.
For the Thomas Cup draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the World Team Rankings of 20 February 2024. Pot 1 contained the top seed China (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed Indonesia (which were assigned to position D1) and the next two best teams, Chinese Taipei and Japan. Pot 2 contained the next best four teams, Pot 3 contained the ninth to twelfth seeds, and Pot 4 for the thirteenth to sixteenth seeds.
A similar procedure was applied for the Uber Cup draw, where top seed China (were assigned to position A1), the second seed, South Korea (were assigned to position D1), Japan and Chinese Taipei were in Pot 1.
Thomas Cup Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Uber Cup Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Squads
Tiebreakers The rankings of teams in each group were determined per BWF Statutes Section 5.1, Article 16.3: Number of matches won; Match result between the teams in question; Match difference in all group matches; Game difference in all group matches; Point difference in all group matches.
Medal summary Medal table
Medalists Thomas Cup Chen BoyangHe JitingLi ShifengLiang WeikengLiu YiLu GuangzuRen XiangyuShi YuqiWang ChangWeng Hongyang Éloi AdamMaël CattoenAlex LanierJulien MaioChristo PopovToma Junior PopovLucas RenoirLéo RossiEnogat RoyWilliam Villeger Anders AntonsenKim AstrupMathias ChristiansenWilliam BøgebjergDitlev Jæger HolmMagnus JohannesenRasmus KjærDaniel LundgaardAnders Skaarup RasmussenMads Vestergaard Hariharan AmsakarunanArjun M. R.Kiran GeorgeDhruv KapilaSrikanth KidambiPrannoy H. S.Satwiksairaj RankireddyLakshya SenAyush ShettyChirag Shetty Uber Cup An Se-youngBaek Ha-naJeong Na-eunKim Ga-eunKim Ga-ramKim Hye-jeongLee Seo-jinLee So-heeLee Yeon-wooSim Yu-jin Chen YufeiHan YueJia YifanLi YijingLiu ShengshuLuo XuminTan NingWang ZhiyiXu WenjingZhang Shuxian Hina AkechiYuki FukushimaRiko GunjiArisa IgarashiRin IwanagaMayu MatsumotoTomoka MiyazakiKie NakanishiChiharu ShidaAkane Yamaguchi Febriana Dwipuji KusumaAmallia Cahaya PratiwiNi Kadek Dhinda Amartya PratiwiMeilysa Trias Puspita SariSiti Fadia Silva RamadhantiRachel Allessya RoseFebi SetianingrumPutri Kusuma WardaniEster Nurumi Tri WardoyoThalita Ramadhani Wiryawan
Thomas Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
The knockout stage of the tournament started from 1 May 2026 on which the quarter-finals were held. Semi-finals were held on 2 May 2026 while the finals was held on 3 May 2026. Below is the bracket for the knockout round of the tournament, teams in bold denote match winners.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6606+17+29+188 Champions 6424+9+22+197 Runners-up 5323+7+13+134 Eliminated in semi-finals 5323+4+5+110 5 4313+8+14+142 Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 4222+5+9+115 7 4222+2+8+83 8 42220+1+26 9 3212+3+7+142 Eliminated in group stage 10 3212+3+5+62 11 3121−1−4+20 12 3121−3−6−52 13 3030−11−20−180 14 3030−13−25−226 15 3030−15−28−277 16 3030−15−30−406
Uber Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
The knockout stage of the tournament started from 30 April 2026 on which the quarter-finals were held. Semi-finals were held on 2 May 2026 while the finals was held on 3 May 2026. Below is the bracket for the knockout round of the tournament, teams in bold denote match winners. Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6606+21+38+392 Champions 6515+19+34+301 Runners-up 5414+10+22+331 Eliminated in semi-finals 5414+7+14+114 5 4222+3+9+98 Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 42220+2+19 7 4222−10+13 8 4222-3-5-8 9 3121+10+37 Eliminated in group stage 10 3121+10+17 11 3121−3−4−31 12 3121−5−12−155 13 3030−11−21−196 14 3030−11−22−241 15 3030−13−25−293 16 3030−15−30−398
References
External links Official Website