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:

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.

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.