The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had only been men's singles until the start of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation and classified as R1 in rating weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking. In the years 2021-2023, the event has been suspended. A new WTT event, WTT Cup Finals, began in 2021, which is the season-ending championship of the WTT. WTT stated that the winners of the WTT Cup Finals would win the prestigious ITTF World Cup trophies in March 2021, but the winners have been actually presented with WTT Cup Finals specific trophies since the inaugural edition, and the event has been renamed to simply WTT Finals since 2023, making it a pure season-ending event. ITTF World Cup returned with an innovative Mixed Team format in 2023 in Chengdu, and ITTF Singles World Cup returned in 2024, in Macao, China.

Competition

Men's and Women's World Cups

For 2024 Singles World Cup, participants of the competition are composed of: For previous editions, participants of the competition are composed of:

Team World Cup

Mixed Team World Cup

Playing system

Men's and Women's World Cups

The 2024 World Cup was divided into 2 stages:

Mixed Team World Cup

There will be a total of 56 matches (32 in Stage 1 + 24 in Stage 2). In Stage 1 the teams will be divided into 4 groups (2 groups of 4 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams), with all the members of a group playing each other (round robin). For Stage 1, the highest-ranked team will be placed in Group 1, the 2nd highest in Group 2, the 3rd highest in Group 3 and the 4th highest in Group 4; the remaining teams will be drawn into the groups 2 at a time in seeding order (modified snake system), with the exception teams 17 and 18 will be drawn into groups 3 and 4. In Stage 2, the group winners and runners-up from Stage 1 will compete in a single group with all the members of a group playing each other (round robin), with the exception that teams having played each other in Stage 1 will not play again, but the results from Stage 1 will carry forward to Stage 2 The tournament will be played in accordance with the Laws of Table Tennis and the Regulations for International Competitions with the exceptions described in Note 2

Former playing system

Men's and Women's World Cups

The playing system is determined by the executive committee on recommendation by the Competition Department. The 2009 World Cup was divided into 3 stages. All matches were the best of 7 games.

Team World Cup

All team matches are played on the Olympic System with a maximum of 4 singles and 1 doubles. And all individual matches of a team match are the best of 5 games.

Winners

Men's singles

ITTF World Cup

WTT Finals

Women's singles

ITTF World Cup

WTT Finals

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Men's team

Performance by nations in Men's World Team

Women's team

Performance by nations in Women's World Team

Mixed Team