The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 31st edition of the men's team championship.^[1][2]

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–2 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off.^[3][4][5][6]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Li Fu-jung Li Ching-kuang Liang Ko-liang Hsi En-ting Chuang Tse-tung	Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tetsuo Inoue Shigeo Itoh Mitsuru Kono Tokio Tasaka	Yugoslavia Zlatko Cordas Milivoj Karakašević Istvan Korpa Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek

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Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	5	5	0	10
2	Yugoslavia	5	4	1	8
3	West Germany	5	3	2	6
4	South Korea	5	2	3	4
5	England	5	1	4	2
6	Indonesia	5	0	5	0

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	5	5	0	10
2	Sweden	5	4	1	8
3	Hungary	5	3	2	6
4	France	5	2	3	4
5	North Korea	5	1	4	2
6	Czechoslovakia	5	0	5	0

China 5		Japan 2	Score
Liang Ko-liang	lost to	Hasegawa	21–15 8–21 19–21
Liang Ko-liang	bt	Itoh	21–11 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Itoh	21–19 17–21 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung	lost to	Kono	12–21 16–21
Li Ching-kuang	bt	Kono	21–13 21–18
Li Ching-kuang	bt	Hasegawa	15–21 21–19 21–18
Li Ching-kuang	bt	Itoh	21–3 21–6

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists