Arab Badminton Championships

The Arab Badminton Championships (Arabic: البطولة العربية للريشة الطائرة) is a regional badminton tournament organized by the Arab Badminton Federation (ABF) to crown the best badminton players and teams in the Arab world. The inaugural edition of the championships was hosted in 1996 in Damascus, Syria. Syria also hosted the second edition of the championships in 1998.

The first four editions of the championships featured only four events, the events being men's singles, women's singles, the men's team event and the women's team event. Doubles events were later introduced in the fifth edition of the championships hosted in Amman, Jordan.

Nations participating

• Syria (from 1996)
• Jordan (from 1996)
• Iraq (from 1996)
• Bahrain (from 1996)
• Palestine (from 1996)
• Egypt (from 2000)
• Lebanon (from 2000)
• Algeria (from 2002)
• Sudan (from 2004)
• Morocco (from 2009)
• Mauritania (from 2009)
• Tunisia (from 2017)
• Saudi Arabia (from 2017)
• Libya (from 2017)
• Oman (from 2021)
• Djibouti (from 2024)
• Kuwait (from 2024)
• Qatar (from 2024)

Championships

Year Number Host City Host Country Events 1996 1 Damascus Syria 4 1998 2 Damascus Syria 2000 3 Beirut Lebanon 2001 4 Casablanca Morocco - 2002 4 Damascus Syria 4 2004 5 Amman Jordan 7 2008 6 Casablanca Morocco - 2009 6 Amman Jordan 7 2011 7 Aqaba Jordan 2017 8 Tunis Tunisia 2021 9 Hamad Town Bahrain 5 2024 10 Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Past winners

Individual event

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1996			Not held
1998
2000	Ismat Khalil	Eva Katrib
2001	Cancelled
2002	Tareq Shalhoum	Hadil Kareem	Not held
2004	Bassel Al-Durrah		Bassel Al-Durrah Tareq Shalhoum	Eva Katrib Hadil Kareem	Tareq Shalhoum Hadil Kareem
2009	Ammar Awad		Bassel Al-Durrah Nawras Abdul Wahid	Bushra Muhawesh Hadil Kareem	Bassel Al-Durrah Hadil Kareem
2011	Ammar Awad	Sanaa Mahmoud	Ammar Awad Mohammad Saleh	Hadil Kareem Sanaa Mahmoud	Jehad Kareem Hadil Kareem
2017	Youcef Sabri Medel	Halla Bouksani	Adnan Ebrahim Jaffar Ebrahim	Halla Bouksani Yasmina Chibah	Youcef Sabri Medel Ferd Houda
2021	Adnan Ebrahim	Domou Amro	Koceila Mammeri Youcef Sabri Medel	Domou Amro Marah Omar	Adham Hatem Elgamal Doha Hany
2024		Nour Ahmed Youssri	Sifeddine Larbaoui Youcef Sabri Medel	Yasmina Chibah Linda Mazri	Bahaedeen Ahmad Alshannik Domou Amro

Team event

Year	Country	Venue	Men's team				Women's team
			Champion	Runner-up	Bronze		Champion	Runner-up	Bronze
1996	Syria	Damascus	Syria	Jordan	Bahrain		Syria	Jordan	Bahrain
1998	Syria	Damascus	Syria	Jordan	Bahrain		Syria	Jordan	Bahrain
2000	Lebanon	Beirut	Syria	Egypt	Jordan Iraq		Syria	Egypt	Jordan Lebanon
2001	Morocco	Casablanca	Cancelled				Cancelled
2002	Syria	Damascus	Syria	Egypt	Jordan		Syria	Egypt	Algeria
2004	Jordan	Amman	Syria	Egypt	Jordan		Syria	Jordan	Egypt
2008	Morocco	Casablanca	Cancelled				Cancelled
2009	Jordan	Amman	Syria	Egypt	Jordan Bahrain		Syria	Jordan	Egypt Jordan B
2011	Jordan	Aqaba	Syria	Jordan	Iraq		Syria	Jordan	Iraq
2017	Tunisia	Tunis	Bahrain	Algeria	Morocco		Algeria	Tunisia	Sudan
2021	Bahrain	Hamad Town	Not held				Not held
2024	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh

Junior results

Team event (U19)

Year	Country	Venue	Men's team				Women's team
			Champion	Runner-up	Bronze		Champion	Runner-up	Bronze
2003	Egypt	Cairo	Syria	Jordan	Bahrain		Syria	Jordan	Bahrain
2004	Morocco	Casablanca	Not held				Not held
2005	Jordan	Amman	Syria	Jordan	Iraq		Syria	Egypt	Jordan
2007	Syria	Tartous	Syria	Jordan	Iraq		Jordan	Syria	Egypt
2009	Syria	Damascus	Syria	Egypt	Jordan		Syria	Jordan	Iraq
2016	Algeria	Algiers	Algeria	Jordan	Iraq		Algeria	Iraq	Jordan
2022	Kuwait	Shuwaikh	Not held				Not held