The World Cup in badminton was an annual tournament organized by the International Management Group (IMG).^[1] It was held from 1979 to 1997. After the tournament ceased for seven years, Badminton World Federation decided to bring it back as an invitational tournament in 2005,^[2] but it was ended after the 2006 event.

Year	No.	Host City	Country
1979	I	Tokyo	Japan
1980	II	Kyoto	Japan
1981	III	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
1982	IV	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
1983	V	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
1984	VI	Jakarta	Indonesia
1985	VII	Jakarta	Indonesia
1986	VIII	Jakarta	Indonesia
1987	IX	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
1988	X	Bangkok	Thailand
1989	XI	Guangzhou	China
1990	XII	Bandung/Jakarta	Indonesia
1991	XIII	Macau	Macau
1992	XIV	Guangzhou	China
1993	XV	New Delhi	India
1994	XVI	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam
1995	XVII	Jakarta	Indonesia
1996	XVIII	Jakarta	Indonesia
1997	XIX	Yogyakarta	Indonesia
2005	XX	Yiyang	China
2006	XXI	Yiyang	China

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1979	Liem Swie King	Lene Køppen	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Emiko Ueno Yoshiko Yonekura	no competition
1980				Atsuko Tokuda Yoshiko Yonekura
1981	Prakash Padukone	Chen Ruizhen	no competition	no competition
1982	Liem Swie King	Lene Køppen
1983	Han Jian	Han Aiping	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong	Han Aiping Li Lingwei	Martin Dew Gillian Gilks
1984		Li Lingwei	Hariamanto Kartono Liem Swie King	Lin Ying Wu Dixi	Thomas Kihlström Nora Perry
1985	Icuk Sugiarto				Christian Hadinata Ivana Lie
1986			Bobby Ertanto Liem Swie King	Han Aiping Li Lingwei	Eddy Hartono Verawaty Fadjrin
1987	Zhao Jianhua		Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong		Wang Pengren Shi Fangjing
1988	Yang Yang	Han Aiping	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Guan Weizhen Lin Ying
1989		Susi Susanti	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong		Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1990	Wu Wenkai	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	Jalani Sidek Razif Sidek	Lai Caiqin Yao Fen	Rudy Gunawan Rosiana Tendean
1991	Ardy Wiranata	Huang Hua		Chung So-young Hwang Hye-young
1992	Joko Suprianto	Tang Jiuhong	Cheah Soon Kit Soo Beng Kiang	Lin Yanfen Yao Fen
1993	Alan Budikusuma	Susi Susanti	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Lim Xiaoqing Christine Magnusson	Peter Axelsson Gillian Gowers
1994	Hariyanto Arbi		Cheah Soon Kit Soo Beng Kiang	Finarsih Lili Tampi	Thomas Lund Catrine Bengtsson
1995	Joko Suprianto	Ye Zhaoying	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Eliza Nathanael Zelin Resiana	Tri Kusharjanto Minarti Timur
1996	Dong Jiong	Susi Susanti	Antonius Ariantho Denny Kantono	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Sandiarto Minarti Timur
1997	Sun Jun		Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja		Liu Yong Ge Fei
1998-2004	Not held
2005	Lin Dan	Xie Xingfang	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Xie Zhongbo Zhang Yawen
2006		Wang Yihan	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir

World Cup all time medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	41	33	52	126
2	Indonesia	36	31	46	113
3	South Korea	5	11	16	32
4	Denmark	4.5	6	21	31.5
5	Malaysia	4	4	15	23
6	Japan	3	4	7	14
7	Sweden	2.5	1	10	13.5
8	England	2	3.5	14.5	20
9	India	1	0	1	2
10	Thailand	0	2	2	4
11	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
12	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		99	95.5	189.5	384

• http://www.sportsrecords.co.uk/badminton/index.htm Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
• http://com4.runboard.com/bsportsworld.fswimming.t155
• Smash: World Cup