# BWF Awards

BWF Awards are awards given by the Badminton World Federation to the top badminton players during a given season.

## Players of the Year

From 1998 to 2007, this award was named Eddy Choong Player of the Year.
| Year | Male Player | Female Player |
| 1998 | Peter Gade | — |
| 1999 | — | Camilla Martin |
| 2000 | Candra Wijaya | — |
| 2001 | — | Gao Ling |
| 2002 | Kim Dong-moon | — |
| 2003 | Kim Dong-moon | Ra Kyung-min |
| 2004 | Taufik Hidayat | — |
| 2005 | Taufik Hidayat | — |
| 2006 | Lin Dan | — |
| 2007 | Lin Dan | — |
| 2008 | Lin Dan | Zhou Mi |
| 2009 | Lee Chong Wei | Wang Yihan |
| 2010 | Lee Chong Wei | Wang Xin |
| 2011 | Lee Chong Wei | Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang |
| 2012 | Cai Yun Fu Haifeng | Wang Yihan |
| 2013 | Lee Chong Wei | Li Xuerui |
| 2014 | Chen Long | Zhao Yunlei |
| 2015 | Chen Long | Carolina Marín |
| 2016 | Lee Chong Wei | Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi |
| 2017 | Marcus Gideon Kevin Sukamuljo | Chen Qingchen |
| 2018 | Marcus Gideon Kevin Sukamuljo | Huang Yaqiong |
| 2019 | Kento Momota | Huang Yaqiong |
| 2020–2021 | Viktor Axelsen | Tai Tzu-ying |
| 2022 | Viktor Axelsen | Akane Yamaguchi |
| 2023 | Seo Seung-jae | An Se-young |
| 2024 | Shi Yuqi | An Se-young |

## Pairs of the Year

| Year | Men's Doubles | Women's Doubles | Mixed Doubles |
| 2020–2021 | — | Greysia Polii Apriyani Rahayu | — |
| 2022 | — | — | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong |
| 2023 | — | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | — |
| 2024 | Liang Weikeng Wang Chang | Liu Shengshu Tan Ning | Feng Yanzhe Huang Dongping |

## Players' Player of the Year

| Year | Male Player | Female Player | Ref |
| 2024 | Viktor Axelsen | An Se-young | |

## Rising Star of the Year

This was awarded from 2008 to 2023 as the Most Promising Player of the Year. In 2024, it was renamed Rising Star of the Year.
| Year | Player |
| 2008 | Saina Nehwal |
| 2009 | Ratchanok Intanon |
| 2010 | Viktor Axelsen |
| 2011 | Zulfadli Zulkiffli |
| 2012 | Kento Momota |
| 2013 | Akane Yamaguchi |
| 2014 | Akane Yamaguchi |
| 2015 | Zheng Siwei |
| 2016 | Chen Qingchen |
| 2017 | Chen Yufei |
| 2018 | Han Chengkai Zhou Haodong |
| 2019 | An Se-young |
| 2020–2021 | Kunlavut Vitidsarn |
| 2022 | Kodai Naraoka |
| 2023 | Liu Shengshu Tan Ning |
| 2024 | Alex Lanier |

## Para-players of the Year

This award was first presented in 2015.
| Year | Male Player | Female Player |
| 2015 | Lee Sam-seop | Helle Sofie Sagøy |
| 2016 | Lucas Mazur | Karin Suter-Erath |
| 2017 | Kim Jung-jun | Amnouy Wetwithan |
| 2018 | Jack Shephard | Leani Ratri Oktila |
| 2019 | Qu Zimo | Leani Ratri Oktila |
| 2020–2021 | Qu Zimo | Leani Ratri Oktila |
| 2022 | Daiki Kajiwara | Manisha Ramadass |
| 2023 | Daiki Kajiwara | Rina Marlina |
| 2024 | Qu Zimo | Liu Yutong Li Fengmei |

## Para-pair of the Year

| Year | Pair |
| 2020–2021 | Lucas Mazur Faustine Noël |
| 2022 | Thomas Wandschneider Rick Hellmann |
| 2023 | Hikmat Ramdani Leani Ratri Oktila |
| 2024 | Hikmat Ramdani Leani Ratri Oktila |

## Best-dressed of the Year

This award is given to the best-dressed player at the Gala held prior to the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals and its predecessor, the BWF Super Series Finals.
| Year | Male Player | Female Player |
| 2013 | Ko Sung-hyun | Tai Tzu-ying |
| 2015 | Chou Tien-chen | Ratchanok Intanon |
| 2016 | Viktor Axelsen | Woon Khe Wei |
| 2017 | Srikanth Kidambi | Tai Tzu-ying |
| 2018 | Shi Yuqi | P. V. Sindhu |
| 2019 | Viktor Axelsen | Ratchanok Intanon |
| 2022 | Prannoy H. S. | Busanan Ongbamrungphan |
| 2023 | Chen Tang Jie | Jongkolphan Kititharakul |
| 2024 | He Jiting | Gayatri Gopichand |

## Defunct category

In 2024, BWF announced a brand-new structure for the awards. This led to a category becoming defunct.

### Most Improved Player of the Year

| Year | Player(s) |
| 2016 | P. V. Sindhu |
| 2017 | Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota |
| 2018 | Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara |
| 2019 | Kim So-yeong Kong Hee-yong |
| 2020–2021 | Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin |
| 2022 | Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto |
| 2023 | Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin |