Edition 77th | ||
Duration January 14, 2016 –
December 22, 2016 Player of the year Lee Chong Wei (Male)
Misaki Matsutomo &
Ayaka Takahashi (Female) | ||
The 2016 BWF Season is the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2016 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of badminton through an extensive worldwide program of events. These events have various purposes according to their level and territory in which they are held but those events owned by BWF seek to showcase the Sport via the widest possible quality television broadcast and build the fanbase of the sport throughout the world.
The world badminton tournament structure has four levels: Level 1 (BWF Major Events), Level 2 (BWF Superseries: Superseries and Superseries Premier), Level 3 (BWF Grand Prix: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold Series), and Level 4 (BWF International Challenge, BWF International Series, and BWF Future Series). The Thomas Cup & Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup and Suhandinata Cup are Teams Events. The others – Superseries, Grand Prix Events, International Challenge, International Series, and Future Series are all individual tournaments. The higher the level of tournament, the larger the prize money and the more ranking points available.
The 2016 BWF Season calendar comprises these four levels of BWF tournaments.
Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2016 calendar, with the Champions and Runners-up documented.