All England Open Badminton Championships
The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world's oldest badminton tournament, held annually in England. With the introduction of the BWF's latest grading system, it was given Superseries status in 2007, upgraded to Superseries Premier status in 2011.
The world's first open tournament was held in the English town of Guildford in 1898, the success of which paved the way for the All England's inaugural edition, which was held at London's Horticultural Halls in 1899. Although the inaugural edition consisted of just the doubles format, the singles were introduced from the second edition onward. It was eventually considered – especially after the first Thomas Cup series in 1949 – the unofficial world championship of the sport until 1977, when the International Badminton Federation launched its official championships.
There were two instances when it was halted – from 1915 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1946.
Historical venues for the Championships
The tournament has been held at eight venues, and is now played at Arena Birmingham, Birmingham.| Years active | Venue | Location |
| 1899–1901 | HQ of the London Scottish Rifles | Buckingham Gate |
| 1902 | Crystal Palace Central Transept | Sydenham Hill |
| 1903–1909 | London Rifles Brigade's City Headquarters | Bunhill Row, Islington |
| 1910–1939 | Lindley Hall, Vincent Square | Westminster, London |
| 1947–1949 | Harringay Arena, North London Stadium | North London |
| 1950–1956 | Empress Hall | Earls Court |
| 1957–1993 | Wembley Arena | Wembley, London |
| 1994–present | Arena Birmingham | Birmingham |
Past winners
Full list
- Men's singles
- Women's singles
- Men's doubles
- Women's doubles
- Mixed doubles
Multiple winners
| Name | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
 George Alan Thomas | 4 | 9 | 8 | 21 | ||
 Frank Devlin | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 | ||
 Judy Devlin | 10 | 7 | 17 | |||
| Meriel Lucas | 6 | 10 | 1 | 17 | ||
 Finn Kobberø | 7 | 8 | 15 | |||
| Betty Uber | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | ||
| Tonny Ahm | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Ethel B. Thomson | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | ||
| Margaret Tragett | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | ||
| Hazel Hogarth | 5 | 6 | 11 | |||
| Erland Kops | 7 | 4 | 11 | |||
| Gillian Gilks | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | ||
| Kirsten Thorndahl | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | ||
 Gao Ling | 6 | 5 | 11 | |||
| Henry Norman Marrett | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Ulla Strand | 3 | 7 | 10 | |||
| Ralph Nichols | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Donald C. Hume | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | ||
 Park Joo-bong | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||
| Chung Myung-hee | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||
| Marjorie Barrett | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||
| Kitty McKane | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||
| Gordon Mack | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | ||
 Rudy Hartono | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Nora Perry | 2 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Raymond M. White | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Thelma Kingsbury | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | ||
 Eddy Choong | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Frank Chesterton | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
 Guy Sautter | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| June Timperley | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Sue Devlin | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Tjun Tjun | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Johan Wahjudi | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Ra Kyung-min | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Kim Dong-moon | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Huang Sui | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Lin Dan | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Violet Elton | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Poul Holm | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Susan Whetnall | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
 Hiroe Yuki | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Etsuko Toganoo | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Chung So-young | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Ge Fei | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Yu Yang | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| F. S. Collier | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Norman Wood | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Albert Prebble | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| G. L. Murray | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Lavinia Radeglia | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Herbert Uber | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Marje Henderson | 4 | 4 | ||||
| David Choong | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Wong Peng Soon | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Iris Rogers | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Tony Jordan | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Svend Pri | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Morten Frost | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Hwang Hye-young | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Susi Susanti | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Gu Jun | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Lee Chong Wei | 4 | 4 | ||||
| D. W. Oakes | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Daisy St. John | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Herbert Mellersh | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Stewart Marsden Massey | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Dorothy Cundall | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Margaret Stocks | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Eveline Peterson | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Frank Hodge | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Leoni Kingsbury | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Leslie Nichols | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Jørn Skaarup | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Margaret Varner | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Poul-Erik Nielsen | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Henning Borch | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Ng Boon Bee | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Derek Talbot | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Machiko Aizawa | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Christian Hadinata | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Liem Swie King | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Mike Tredgett | 3 | 3 | ||||
 Thomas Kihlström | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Li Lingwei | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Kim Moon-soo | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Li Yongbo | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Tian Bingyi | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Thomas Lund | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Gil Young-ah | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Ye Zhaoying | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Ha Tae-kwon | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Zhang Jun | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Xie Xingfang | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Tine Baun | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Wang Xiaoli | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Tontowi Ahmad | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Liliyana Natsir | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Zhao Yunlei | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
 Tai Tzu-ying | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Mary Graeme | 2 | 2 | ||||
| E. M. Moseley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Ralph Watling | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Dorothea K. Douglass | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Edward Hawthorn | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Alice Gowenlock | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Muriel Bateman | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Marian Horsley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Diana Doveton | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Tage Madsen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Preben Dabelsteen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Marie Ussing | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Ooi Teik Hock | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Heather Ward | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Karin Jørgensen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Tan Yee Khan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Margaret Boxall | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Eva Twedberg | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Ade Chandra | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Imelda Wiguna | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Margaret Beck | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Lene Køppen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Zhang Ailing | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Rudy Heryanto | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Hariamanto Kartono | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Lin Ying | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Wu Dixi | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Martin Dew | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Han Aiping | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Kim Yun-ja | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Zhao Jianhua | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Jon Holst-Christensen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Rudy Gunawan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Hariyanto Arbi | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Ricky Subagja | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Rexy Mainaky | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Tony Gunawan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Gong Zhichao | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Candra Wijaya | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Chen Hong | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Jens Eriksen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Martin Lundgaard Hansen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Zheng Bo | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Zhang Yawen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Cai Yun | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Fu Haifeng | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Wang Shixian | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Jung Jae-sung | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Lee Yong-dae | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Zhang Nan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Mathias Boe | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Carsten Mogensen | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Chen Long | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Marcus Fernaldi Gideon | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Mohammad Ahsan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Hendra Setiawan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Huang Yaqiong | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Yuta Watanabe | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Praveen Jordan | 2 | 2 |
In the modern era players are less able to compete in multiple disciplines due to the differentiation of required skills and the physical demands of the game. Some men's and women's doubles players are able to compete successfully in mixed doubles. The last player to win in both singles and a doubles discipline was Li Lingwei of China who won women's doubles in 1985 then in women's singles in 1989.
Many female badminton players change their surname after marriage. Below are some of the former names or latest names as noted in the table above:
Performances by nation
Updated after the 2020 edition.| Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total | |
| 1 | 24 | 39 | 28 | 46.5 | 52 | 189.5 | |
| 2 | 21 | 14 | 21 | 11 | 21 | 88 | |
| 3 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 24 | 13 | 85 | |
| 4 | 15 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 48 | |
| 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 35 | - | |
| 6 | 14 | 11.5 | 0.5 | 26 | |||
| 7 | 7 | 7.5 | 2 | 3.5 | 20 | ||
| 8 | 1 | 12 | 0.5 | 4 | 1 | 18.5 | |
| 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 18 | |
| 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 6.5 | ||
| 11 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | 4.5 | |||
| 12 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 13 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 17 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |||||
| 17 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total | 109 | 109 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 548 | - |