The final four rounds of the Badminton Super League regular season in Wuhu will soon reveal the suspense of qualification and relegation for the finals.
Last Sunday, the year-end drama of world badminton, the 2025 BWF World Tour Finals, came to an end in Hangzhou. From December 25 to 28, the year-end drama of domestic badminton, the last four rounds of the 2025-2026 China Badminton Club Super League regular season will be held at the Wuhu Aviation Sports Center. Some teams will launch an impact to qualify for the finals, and some teams will fight for relegation.
After the first ten rounds of the regular season, Liaoning Jitu, Xiamen Bank, Qingdao Renzhou, and Shenzhen Kawasaki Yuzhong are in the top four, but other teams still have the possibility of advancing to the finals, and the competition in Wuhu Station will be more intense. In addition to competing for the qualifications of the semi-finals to advance to the finals, the last team in this season’s regular season will lose the opportunity to participate in the Badminton Super League next season. The current bottom three teams, Zhejiang Sports, Wuhu Xinghang, and Jiangsu Yuchao, all have 3 wins and 7 losses, and they are all more likely to be relegated. The result of every game in Wuhu Station is crucial.
After the BWF World Tour Finals, each team will compete with a relatively complete lineup. National players and foreign players have returned to the club to participate in the competition, showing their most dedicated attitude towards the finals or relegation.
Liaoning Jitu’s women’s doubles Olympic champion Jia Yifan not only practiced small ball on the 24th, but also had a two-on-one confrontation with other teammates. Ruichang Biyuan’s three-on-three training was efficient and interesting. National players Tan Ning, Chen Fanghui, and Cheng Xing faced off against Malaysian foreign aid Goh V Sheng, South Korean foreign aid Choi Sol-gyu, and Li Qian. After a chance ball failed to score, Tan Ning sighed loudly, and then cheered up and returned to the confrontation state. On the other side of the field, the men’s players of Jiangsu Yuchao also had a three-on-three confrontation, with men’s singles national player Lu Guangzu and men’s doubles national player Huang Di each leading one side.
From the lineup announced by the organizing committee for the first match day of the Wuhu Station on the 25th, it can be seen that each team has sent out its main players. The most interesting one is the men’s doubles combination of Zhejiang Sports Sports Wang Chang and South Korean foreign aid Xu Chengjae partnered up against the host team, Wuhu Xinghang’s Liu Yang/Liu Yi. On December 21, in the men’s doubles final of the Badminton World Tour Finals, Wang Chang and Xu Chengjae were still opponents across the net. Now they have become partners. What kind of sparks the two famous men’s doubles players from China and South Korea will create together has attracted much attention. Their opponent is the men’s doubles champions Liu Yang/Liu Yi of the 15th National Games. This high-level men’s doubles showdown is worth looking forward to.
Zhejiang Sports is currently ranked last, and they sent all their main players to compete in Wuhu Station. Xu Chengzai, who just won the men’s doubles championship at the World Badminton Federation Finals, played concurrently on the first day. He first partnered with Wang Chang in the men’s doubles, and also played in the mixed doubles with Wu Mengying. Women’s singles Olympic champion Chen Yufei will also return to the Badminton Super League. It was in Wuhu last year that Chen Yufei made her comeback debut after the Paris Olympics. Returning to Wuhu again, Chen Yufei’s performance also attracted attention.
In addition, in the match on the 25th, Guo Xinwa/Liu Shengshu of Liaoning Jitu, the favorite team to advance to the semi-finals, will challenge Qingdao Renzhou’s World Badminton Federation Finals mixed doubles runner-up Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin. Jiang Zhenbang will also play in the men’s doubles with Liang Weikeng. Huang Dongping, who just won the mixed doubles championship at the World Badminton Federation Finals, will compete with Zhu Yijun. Ruichang Biyuan is also played by Chen Fanghui. She first partners with Tan Ning in women’s doubles, and then partners with Cheng Xing in mixed doubles. Reporter Zhou Yuan (Wuhu, December 24)
