Bids for the Asian Games

Bids for the Asian Games is the process where National Olympic Committees select from within their national territory cities to put forward bids to host an Asian Games. Although hosts of the Asian Games normally also host the Asian Para Games since 2010, the Para Games were not yet automatically included in the bid, as the Olympic Council of Asia and Asian Paralympic Committee have yet to sign an agreement. Hence, the Asian Games and Asian Para Games were managed by different organising committees.

List of Asian Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	AGF assembly	Ref
		Host city	Others
I	1951 details	New Delhi	Only bid		Delhi (1949-02-13)	[1][2][3]
II	1954 details	Manila	Only bid		New Delhi (1951)
III	1958 details	Tokyo	Only bid		Manila (1954-05-06)	[4]
IV	1962 details	Jakarta	Karachi		Tokyo (1958-05-23)	[5]
V	1966 details	Bangkok	Only bid		Jakarta (1962-08-30)	[6]
VI	1970 details	Seoul	Only bid	Colombo	Bangkok (1966-12-5)	[7]
		Bangkok	Only Bid		Mexico City (1968-10-14)	[8]
VII	1974 details	Iran	Kuwait City Tel Aviv		Bangkok (1968-12-11)
VIII	1978 details	Singapore	Fukuoka		Munich (1972-08-25)	[9][10]
		Islamabad	Only Bid		Tehran (1974-08-29)	[11]
		Bangkok	Only Bid		Montreal (1976-07-24)	[12]
IX	1982 details	New Delhi	Only Bid
X	1986 details	Seoul	Only Bid	Baghdad Pyongyang	New Delhi (1981-11-26)	[13]
Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
		Host city	Others
XI	1990 details	Beijing	Hiroshima		3rd Seoul (1984)	[14]
XII	1994 details	Hiroshima	Only Bid
XIII	1998 details	Bangkok	Taipei Jakarta		9th Beijing (1990-09-27)	[15]
XIV	2002 details	Busan	Kaohsiung		14th Seoul (1995-05-23)	[16]
XV	2006 details	Doha	Kuala Lumpur Hong Kong New Delhi		19th Busan (2000-11-12)	[17]
XVI	2010 details	Guangzhou	Only Bid	Amman Kuala Lumpur Seoul	23rd Doha (2004-07-01)	[18]
XVII	2014 details	Incheon	New Delhi		26th Kuwait City (2007-04-17)	[19]
XVIII	2019	Hanoi	Surabaya	Dubai	31st Macau (2012-11-08)	[20]
	2018 details	Jakarta and Palembang	Only Bid		33rd Incheon (2014-09-19)	[21]
XIX	2022 details	Hangzhou	Only Bid		34th Ashgabat (2015-09-16)	[22]
XX	2026 details	Aichi[lower-alpha 1] and Nagoya	Only Bid		35th Danang (2016-09-25)	[23]

List of Asian Winter Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
		Host city	Others
I	1986 details	Sapporo	Only bid		3rd Seoul (1984)	[14]
II	1990 details	India	Only bid			[24]
		Sapporo	Only bid		8th Bali (1989)
III	1995	Samjiyon	Only bid
	1996 details	Harbin	Gangwon		12th Kuwait City (1993-12-02)	[25]
IV	1999 details	Gangwon	Only bid
V	2003 details	Aomori	Only bid
VI	2007 details	Changchun	Beirut	Tehran Almaty	21st Busan (2002-10-02)	[25][26]
VII	2009	Beirut	Only bid
	2011 details	Astana and Almaty	Only bid		25th Kuwait City (2006-03-04)	[27]
VIII	2017 details	Sapporo and Obihiro	Only bid		30th Astana (2011-01-31)	[28]

List of Asian Youth Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
		Host city	Others
I	2009 details	Singapore	Only bid
II	2013 details	Nanjing	Only bid		29th Guangzhou (2010-11-13)	[29]
III	2017	Hambantota	Only bid		Kuwait City (2012-06-12)	[30]
		Jakarta	Only bid		34th Ashgabat (2015-09-16)	[31]
	2021 details	Surabaya	Only bid		31st Macau (2012-11-08)	[20]
		Shantou	Only bid		38th Bangkok (2019-03-03)	[31]

Notes

1. The term refers to other subdivisions of the Aichi Prefecture that will host the event together with Nagoya city.

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