The 2025 badminton season is set to take off even as the world’s best shuttlers will get enough opportunities to showcase their prowess.
The year is packed with some exciting badminton events where players will be offered crucial ranking points and lucrative prize money.
Besides the customary BWF World Tour events, the world championships and the World Tour Finals, players will also be competing in the Sudirman Cup and various Asian tournaments.
The Malaysia Open BWF Super 1000 tournament, scheduled in the second week of January, will be the first event of the 2025 badminton season. The action then will move to New Delhi for the India Open – a BWF Super 750 event.
The coveted All England Open is slated for the second week of March while the Badminton World Championships will be held in Pattaya, Thailand, from September 7 to 14.
The Sudirman Cup, the premier mixed-team badminton championship in the world, will be staged in the People’s Republic of China from April 27 to May 4.
Three back-to-back tournaments – the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament in Lucknow and two other India Super 100 tournaments – will be held in India late in the season.
The highly-anticipated BWF World Tour Finals, from December 10-14, will bring the curtains down to the 2025 badminton season.
Here are the schedule of major badminton events in 2025:
| Dates | Tournament | Category | Venue |
| January 7-12 | Malaysia Open | BWF Super 1000 | Kuala Lumpur |
| January 14-19 | India Open | BWF Super 750 | New Delhi |
| January 21-26 | Indonesia Masters | BWF Super 500 | Jakarta |
| January 28-February 2 | Thailand Masters | BWF Super 300 | Bangkok |
| February 11-16 | Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships | Continental Team Championships | China |
| February 25-March 2 | German Open | BWF Super 300 | Mulheim |
| March 4-10 | Orleans Masters | BWF Super 300 | Orleans |
| March 11-16 | All England Open | BWF Super 1000 | Birmingham |
| March 11-16 | China Masters | BWF Super 100 | Ruichang |
| March 18-23 | Swiss Open | BWF Super 300 | Basel |
| April 8-13 | Badminton Asia Championships 2025 | Continental Individual Championships | Ningbo |
| April 27- May 4 | BWF Sudirman Cup Finals | Grade 1 – Team Tournaments | Xiamen |
| May 6-11 | Taipei Open | BWF Super 300 | Chinese Taipei |
| May 13-18 | Thailand Open | BWF Super 500 | Bangkok |
| May 20-25 | Malaysia Masters | BWF Super 500 | Kuala Lumpur |
| May 27-June 1 | Singapore Open | BWF Super 750 | Singapore |
| June 3-8 | Indonesia Open | BWF Super 1000 | Jakarta |
| June 24-29 | US Open | BWF Super 300 | TBD |
| July 2-7 | Canada Open | BWF Super 500 | Calgary |
| July 15-20 | Japan Open | BWF Super 750 | Tokyo |
| July 22-27 | China Open | BWF Super 1000 | Changzhou |
| July 29-August 3 | Macau Open | BWF Super 300 | Macau China |
| September 2-7 | China Masters | BWF Super 100 | Baoji |
| September 7-14 | BWF World Senior Championships | Grade 1 – Individual Senior Tournaments | Pattaya |
| September 9-14 | Hong Kong Open | BWF Super 500 | Hong Kong China |
| September 9-14 | Vietnam Open | BWF Super 100 | Ho Chi Minh |
| September 16-21 | Indonesia Masters Super 100 I | BWF Super 100 | TBC |
| September 16-21 | China Masters | BWF Super 750 | Shenzhen |
| September 23 -28 | Kaohsiung Masters | BWF Super 100 | Kaohsiung |
| September 23-28 | Korea Open | BWF Super 500 | Seoul |
| September 30-October 5 | Abu Dhabi Masters | BWF Super 100 | Abu Dhabi |
| October 6-11 | BWF World Junior Mixed Team Championships | Grade 1 – Junior Team Tournaments | Guwahati |
| October 7-12 | Arctic Open | BWF Super 500 | Vantaa |
| October 13-19 | BWF World Junior Championships | Grade 1 – Individual Junior Tournaments | Guwahati |
| October 14-19 | Denmark Open | BWF Super 750 | Odense |
| October 14-19 | Malaysia Super 100 | BWF Super 100 | Kuala Lumpur |
| October 21-26 | Indonesia Masters Super 100 II | BWF Super 100 | TBC |
| October 21- October 26 | French Open | BWF Super 750 | Cesson-Sévigné |
| October 28-November 2 | Hylo Open | BWF Super 300 | Saarbrücken |
| November 4-9 | Korea Masters | BWF Super 300 | Gwangju |
| November 11-16 | Japan Masters | BWF Super 500 | Kumamoto |
| November 18-23 | Australian Open | BWF Super 500 | Sydney |
| November 25-30 | Syed Modi India International | BWF Super 300 | Lucknow |
| December 2-7 | Guwahati Masters | BWF Super 100 | Guwahati |
| December 9-14 | Odisha Masters | BWF Super 100 | Cuttack |
| December 10-14 | BWF World Tour Finals | BWF World Tour Finals | Hangzhou |
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