The 2015 FIA GT World Cup was the inaugural running of the event and the eighth time that Grand Touring (GT) cars had competed in Macau. It took place at the 22-turn Guia Circuit on 22 November 2015 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying. The motorsport promoter Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) chose not to renew its contract with the FIA two years prior to the 2015 FIA GT World Cup and the idea for the creation of a race for the best teams and drivers participating was proposed by the founder of the SRO Stéphane Ratel in early 2013. These plans laid dormant for some time until an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Doha saw the idea reemerge and was later confirmed by the sport's governing body on 20 March 2015. It was the first collaboration between Ratel and the FIA since the FIA GT1 World Championship disbanded. The FIA GT World Cup was granted its status after the World Touring Car Championship confirmed that it would stop travelling to Macau, and it replaced the Baku World Challenge which was discontinued that year when Formula One announced it would hold a race in the city from 2016. The promoter of the race, the Automobile General Association Macao-China, appointed the SRO to help in the formation of a grid.