India national badminton team

India
AssociationBadminton Association of India [1]
ConfederationBadminton Asia
PresidentHimanta Biswa Sarma
BWF ranking
Current ranking8 (April 2025)
Highest ranking5 (July 2023)
Sudirman Cup
Appearances16 (first in 1991)
Best resultQuarter-finals
(2011, 2017)
Thomas Cup
Appearances13 (first in 1952)
Best result Champions
(2022)
Uber Cup
Appearances8 (first in 1957)
Best result Semi-finals
(1957, 2014, 2016)
Asian Mixed Championship
Appearances3 (first in 2017)
Best result Semi-finals
(2023)
Asian Men's Championship
Appearances14 (first in 1965)
Best result Runners-up
(1983)
Asian Women's Championship
Appearances4 (first in 2016)
Best result Champions
(2024)

The India national badminton team is the representative of India in international men's and women's badminton team tournaments. It is governed by the Badminton Association of India.[2] The men's team won the Thomas Cup in 2022, while the women's team have been semi-finalists at the Uber Cup in 2014 and 2016. The team competed in the 2011 Sudirman Cup and shared the fifth rank and also repeated the performance in 2017.

The Indian team is currently 8th in the world rankings.[3] The players have won 3 medals at the Summer Olympics, 14 at the World Championships, 7 at the Asian Games, 18 at the Asian Championships and 25 at the Commonwealth Games.[4]

Coaches

Years Coach Role Ref
2020–present South Korea Park Tae-sang NCE Coach [5]
2025–present Malaysia Tan Kim Her Doubles Coach [6]
2025–present Indonesia Irwansyah Adi Pratama Women's Singles Coach [7]

Medal table

Individual

Tournament Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympic Games 0 1 2 3
World Championships 1 4 9 14
World Games 0 0 1 1
World Cup 1 0 1 2
Commonwealth Games 9 5 13 27
Asian Games 1 1 5 7
Asian Championships 2 0 16 18
South Asian Games 24 21 3 48
Total 14 32 50 96

Team

Tournament Team Gold Silver Bronze Total
Thomas Cup M 1 0 3 4
Uber Cup F 0 0 3 3
Sudirman Cup X 0 0 0 0
Commonwealth Games M 0 1 0 1
F 0 0 1 1
X 1 2 1 4
Asian Games M 0 1 3 4
F 0 0 2 2
Asian Team Championships M 0 1 3 4
F 1 0 0 1
Asian Mixed Team Championships X 0 0 1 1
South Asian Games M 5 0 0 5
F 5 0 0 5
Total 13 5 17 35

Current rankings

As of August 2025

Men's singles

World Rank Player
21 Lakshya Sen
32 Ayush Shetty
34 Prannoy H. S.
36 Kiran George
40 Tharun Mannepalli
42 Srikanth Kidambi
44 Priyanshu Rajawat
49 Sathish Karunakaran
53 Sankar Subramanian
58 Rithvik Sanjeevi
64 Manraj Singh
76 Meiraba Maisnam
90 B. M. Rahul Bharadwaj
96 Saneeth Dayanand

Women's singles

World Rank Player
15 P. V. Sindhu
29 Malvika Bansod
30 Unnati Hooda
38 Anupama Upadhyaya
39 Rakshitha Ramraj
46 Tanvi Sharma
49 Aakarshi Kashyap
56 Anmol Kharb
62 Shriyanshi Valishetty
64 Tasnim Mir
70 Isharani Baruah
76 Tanya Hemanth
81 Ira Sharma
86 Shreya Lele
94 Mansi Singh
95 Devika Sihag

Men's doubles

World Rank Players
9 Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
33 Hariharan Amsakarunan
Ruban Kumar
35 Pruthvi Roy
K. Sai Pratheek
75 Amaan Mohammad
Dingku Singh
83 Abinash Mohanty
Ayush Pattnayak

Women's doubles

World Rank Players
12 Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand
38 Rutaparna Panda
Swetaparna Panda
39 Shruti Mishra
Priya Konjengbam
46 Simran Singhi
Kavipriya Selvam
69 Vaishnavi Khadkekar
Alisha Khan
73 Rashmi Ganesh
Sania Sikkandar
84 Amrutha Pramuthesh
Sonali Singh
90 Gayatri Rawat
Mansa Rawat
91 Ashwini K Bhat
Shikha Gautam

Mixed doubles

World Rank Players
17 Tanisha Crasto
Dhruv Kapila
33 Rohan Kapoor
Ruthvika Gadde
34 Aadya Variyath
Sathish Karunakaran
40 Ashith Surya
Amrutha Pramuthesh

Highest rankings

Note: Active players in bold

Player Discipline Highest
Prakash Padukone
Srikanth Kidambi 		MS 1
Saina Nehwal WS 1
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty 		MD 1
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand 		WD 9
Jwala Gutta
Valiyaveetil Diju 		XD 6
India Team 5

Top 10 rankers

Note: Active players in bold

Player Best Ranking Olympic Medals World Championship Medals
Men's Singles
Prakash Padukone 1 — 1
Srikanth Kidambi 1 — 1
Lakshya Sen 6 — 1
Prannoy H. S. 6 — 1
B. Sai Praneeth 10 — 1
Women's Singles
Saina Nehwal 1 1 2
P. V. Sindhu 2 2 5
Men's Doubles
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty 		1 — 1
Women's Doubles
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand 		9 — —
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini Ponnappa 		10 — 1
Mixed Doubles
Jwala Gutta
Valiyaveetil Diju 		6 — —

Individual record

Olympic Games

See also: Badminton at the Summer Olympics
Year Location Player Category Medal
2012 United Kingdom London, England Saina Nehwal Women's singles Bronze
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Silver
2020 Japan Tokyo, Japan P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze

World Championships

Year Player(s) Category Medal
1983 Prakash Padukone Men's singles Bronze
2011 Jwala Gutta
Ashwini Ponnappa 		Women's doubles Bronze
2013 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze
2014 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze
2015 Saina Nehwal Women's singles Silver
2017 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Silver
Saina Nehwal Women's singles Bronze
2018 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Silver
2019 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Gold
B. Sai Praneeth Men's singles Bronze
2021 Srikanth Kidambi Men's singles Silver
Lakshya Sen Men's singles Bronze
2022 Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 		Men's doubles Bronze
2023 Prannoy H. S. Men's singles Bronze

Asian Games

See also: Badminton at the Asian Games
Year Player(s) Category Medal
1982 Syed Modi Men's singles Bronze
Leroy D'Sa
Pradeep Gandhe 		Men's doubles Bronze
Leroy D'Sa
Kanwal Thakar Singh 		Mixed doubles Bronze
2019 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Silver
Saina Nehwal Bronze
2022 Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 		Men's doubles Gold
Prannoy H. S. Men's singles Bronze

Asian Championships

Year Player(s) Category Medal
1965 Dinesh Khanna Men's singles Gold
Suresh Goel Men's singles Bronze
Meena Shah Women's singles Bronze
Sarojini Apte Women's singles Bronze
Owen Roncon
Sarojini Apte 		Mixed doubles Bronze
A. I. Sheikh
Achala Karnik 		Mixed doubles Bronze
1969 Dinesh Khanna Men's singles Bronze
1976 Prakash Padukone Men's singles Bronze
2000 Pullela Gopichand Men's singles Bronze
2007 Anup Sridhar Men's singles Bronze
2010 Saina Nehwal Women's singles Bronze
2014 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini Ponnappa 		Women's doubles Bronze
2016 Saina Nehwal Women's singles Bronze
2018 Prannoy H. S. Men's singles Bronze
Saina Nehwal Women's singles Bronze
2022 P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze
2023 Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 		Men's doubles Gold

Commonwealth Games

See also: Badminton at the Commonwealth Games
Year Player(s) Category Medal
1966 Dinesh Khanna Men's singles Bronze
1978 Prakash Padukone Men's singles Gold
Ami Ghia
Kanwal Thakar Singh 		Women's doubles Bronze
1982 Syed Modi Men's singles Gold
1998 Aparna Popat Women's singles Silver
Pullela Gopichand Men's singles Bronze
2002 Aparna Popat Women's singles Bronze
2006 Chetan Anand Men's singles Bronze
2010 Saina Nehwal Women's singles Gold
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini Ponnappa 		Women's doubles Gold
Parupalli Kashyap Men's singles Bronze
2014 Parupalli Kashyap Men's singles Gold
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini Ponnappa 		Women's doubles Silver
Gurusai Dutt Men's singles Bronze
P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Bronze
2018 Saina Nehwal Women's singles Gold
Srikanth Kidambi Men's singles Silver
P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Silver
Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 		Men's doubles Silver
Ashwini Ponnappa
N. Sikki Reddy 		Women's doubles Bronze
2022 Lakshya Sen Men's singles Gold
P. V. Sindhu Women's singles Gold
Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 		Men's doubles Gold
Srikanth Kidambi Men's singles Bronze
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand 		Women's doubles Bronze

South Asian Games

See also: Badminton at the South Asian Games

Team record

Commonwealth Games

See also: Badminton at the Commonwealth Games

Mixed team

Year Round Position
1978 Group stage —
1982 Group stage —
1986 Did not enter
1990 Group stage —
1994 Did not enter
2002 Group stage —
2006 Third place 3rd
2010 Runners-up 2nd
2014 Fourth place 4th
2018 Champions 1st
2022 Runners-up 2nd
2026 Event not held
2030 To be determined
2034 To be determined

Men's team

Year Round Position
1998 Runners-up 2nd

Women's team

Year Round Position
1998 Semi-finals 3rd

Asian Games

See also: Badminton at the Asian Games

Asian Championships

Mixed team

Year Round Position
2017 Quarter-finals —
2019 Group stage —
2023 Semi-finals 3rd
2025 Quarter-finals 6th
2027
2029

Men's team

Year Round Position
1962 Did not enter
1965 Semi-finals 3rd
1969 Quarter-finals —
1971 Round of 16 —
1976 Round of 16 —
1983 Runners-up 2nd
1985 Quarter-finals —
1987 Group stage —
1989 Group stage —
1993 Group stage —
2016 Semi-finals 4th
2018 Quarter-finals —
2020 Semi-finals 3rd
2022 Group stage 6th
2024 Quarter-finals 8th
2026 To be determined
2028
2030

Women's team

Year Round Position
2016 Quarter-finals —
2018 Quarter-finals —
2020 Did not enter
2022 Group stage 6th
2024 Champions 1st
2026 To be determined
2028
2030

South Asian Games

See also: Badminton at the South Asian Games

Note: Red border indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Notable former players

See also

References

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