# BWF World Tour Finals

The BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which succeeds BWF Super Series Finals, is an annual season finale badminton tournament which is held every December of a year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's events of the BWF World Tour compete for total prize money of at least US$ 2,500,000.

## Features
### Prize money

The tournament offers minimum total prize money of USD$2,500,000. The prize money is distributed via the following formula:
$Total\ prize\ money\ \times {\frac {Percentage}{100}}$
The prize money distribution (as of 2024 editions) are:
| Round | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
| Winner | US$200,000 | US$200,000 | US$210,000 | US$210,000 | US$210,000 |
| Runner-up | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 |
| Semi-finalist | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 |
| 3rd in Group | US$27,500 | US$27,500 | US$32,500 | US$32,500 | US$32,500 |
| 4th in Group | US$15,000 | US$15,000 | US$17,500 | US$17,500 | US$17,500 |

### World ranking points

Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Finals event.
| Winner(s) | Runner(s)-up | Semi-finalists | 3rd in group | 4th in group |
| 14,000 | 12,000 | 10,000 | 8,900 | 7,800 |

### Eligibility

At the end of the BWF World Tour circuit, top eight players/pairs in the BWF World Tour standing of each discipline, with the maximum of two players/pairs from the same member association, are required to play in a final tournament known as the BWF World Tour Finals.
Only the top 14 results from the BWF World Tour tournaments during the year and a maximum of 3 results from Super 100 will count towards the ranking for BWF World Tour Final
If two or more players are tied in ranking, the selection of players will based on the following criteria:
* The players who participated in the most BWF World Tour tournaments;
* The players who collected the most points in BWF World Tour tournaments starting on 1 July that year.

## Results

| Year | Host city | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
| 2018 | Guangzhou | Shi Yuqi | P. V. Sindhu | Li Junhui Liu Yuchen | Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi | Wang Yilyu Huang Dongping |
| 2019 | Guangzhou | Kento Momota | Chen Yufei | Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong |
| 2020 | Bangkok | Anders Antonsen | Tai Tzu-ying | Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin | Lee So-hee Shin Seung-chan | Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai |
| 2021 | Bali | Viktor Axelsen | An Se-young | Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi | Kim So-yeong Kong Hee-yong | Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai |
| 2022 | Bangkok | Viktor Axelsen | Akane Yamaguchi | Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong |
| 2023 | Hangzhou | Viktor Axelsen | Tai Tzu-ying | Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong |
| 2024 | Hangzhou | Shi Yuqi | Wang Zhiyi | Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen | Baek Ha-na Lee So-hee | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong |
| 2025 | Hangzhou | | | | | |
| 2026 | Hangzhou | | | | | |
* ↑ This tournament, originally due to be held for the third year in a row at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China, was relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in China.
* ↑ This tournament, originally due to be held for the fourth year in a row at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China, was relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in China.
* ↑ This tournament, originally due to be held for the fifth year in a row at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, was later relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

## Performances by nation

    As of the 2024 edition
| Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
| 1 | China | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Denmark | 4 | | 1 | | | 5 |
| 2 | South Korea | | 1 | 1 | 3 | | 5 |
| 4 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | | 2 | 1 | | | 3 |
| 6 | Thailand | | | | | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | India | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| 7 | Indonesia | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Total | Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 35 |