# 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships

The 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 30 September to 9 October 2022. The World Team Championships were originally scheduled in April and pushed back to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Format

The teams were drawn in groups of five teams in principle. After a round robin in each group, the top two teams in groups and the highest-ranked (world team ranking) third-placed teams qualified for a 16-team knockout stage. Two losing semi-finalists received bronze medals in the absence of a third-place match.

### Team match system

A team consisted of three members playing best of five singles. Each singles match was a best of five games. The order of play was:
* A vs X
* B vs Y
* C vs Z
* A vs Y
* B vs X

### Tie-breaking criteria for group play

A finished team match brought two points for a win, one point for a loss. No points were given for a loss in an unplayed or unfinished match. The ranking of teams in the group stage were determined as follows:
* Points obtained in all group matches;
* Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Ratios of wins to losses in the singles matches played between the teams in question;
* Ratios of wins to losses in the games played between the teams in question;
* Ratios of wins to losses in the points played between the teams in question;
* Drawing of lots.

## Qualification

Qualified teams were announced in June 2022. Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is expanded to 40, compared to the previous 24 teams in 2018. However, only 32 men's teams and 28 women's teams arrived in Chengdu with differences from the original list.
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team |
| Host | China | China |
| Africa (5) 2021 African Championships | Egypt Nigeria (absence) Algeria (absence) Togo (absence) Tunisia (absence) | Egypt Nigeria (absence) Tunisia (absence) Mauritius (absence) Algeria (absence) addition: South Africa |
| Americas (7) 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships | Brazil Chile (absence) Argentina (absence) United States Canada Puerto Rico Peru (absence) | Brazil Canada United States Chile (absence) Puerto Rico Argentina (absence) Guatemala (absence) |
| Asia (11) 2021 Asian Championships | South Korea Chinese Taipei India Japan Iran Singapore Hong Kong Kazakhstan Saudi Arabia Thailand Uzbekistan | Japan South Korea Hong Kong Singapore India Thailand Chinese Taipei Kazakhstan (absence) Iran Uzbekistan Indonesia (absence) addition: Malaysia |
| Europe (12) 2021 European Championships (8) and world team ranking (4) | Germany Russia (suspension) Sweden Denmark England Austria (absence) Czech Republic Romania Portugal France Croatia Slovenia addition: Hungary Poland Slovakia | Germany Romania France Portugal Austria (absence) Ukraine (absence) Poland Luxembourg Hungary Russia (suspension) Netherlands (absence) Sweden addition: Czech Republic Italy Slovakia |
| Oceania (3) world team ranking | Australia New Zealand (absence) Vanuatu (absence) | Australia (absence) Vanuatu (absence) Fiji (absence) |
| Intercontinental quota (1) world team ranking | Belgium | North Korea (absence) |

## Schedule

The draw took place on 28 September. Group phase commences on 30 September and knockout stage starts on 5 October, with the women's and men's finals taking place on 8 and 9 October respectively.
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 30 | Sat 1 | Sun 2 | Mon 3 | Tue 4 | Wed 5 | Thu 6 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 |
| Men's team | Group | Group | Group | Group | Group | 1/8 F | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F |
| Women's team | Group | Group | Group | Group | Group | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F | |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (China)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China* | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's team details | China Fan Zhendong Ma Long Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin Lin Gaoyuan | Germany Dang Qiu Benedikt Duda Ricardo Walther Fanbo Meng Kay Stumper | Japan Tomokazu Harimoto Shunsuke Togami Mizuki Oikawa Jo Yokotani |
| Men's team details | China Fan Zhendong Ma Long Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin Lin Gaoyuan | Germany Dang Qiu Benedikt Duda Ricardo Walther Fanbo Meng Kay Stumper | South Korea Jang Woo-jin An Jae-hyun Cho Seung-min Cho Dae-seong Hwang Min-ha |
| Women's team details | China Sun Yingsha Chen Meng Wang Manyu Wang Yidi Chen Xingtong | Japan Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki Hitomi Sato | Chinese Taipei Chen Szu-yu Cheng I-ching Liu Hsing-yin Li Yu-jhun Huang Yi-hua |
| Women's team details | China Sun Yingsha Chen Meng Wang Manyu Wang Yidi Chen Xingtong | Japan Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki Hitomi Sato | Germany Han Ying Nina Mittelham Shan Xiaona Sabine Winter Annett Kaufmann |