List of Asian Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	AGF assembly	Ref
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities	AGF assembly	Ref
I	1951 details	New Delhi	Only bid		Delhi (1949-02-13)	^[1]^[2]^[3]
II	1954 details	Manila			New Delhi (1951)
III	1958 details	Tokyo			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~~		Colombo	Bangkok (1966-12-5)	^[7]
VI	1970 details	Bangkok			Mexico City (1968-10-14)	^[8]
VII	1974 details	Tehran	Kuwait City Tel Aviv		Bangkok (1968-12-11)
VIII	1978 details	~~Singapore~~	Fukuoka		Munich (1972-08-25)	^[9]^[10]
		~~Islamabad~~	Daejeon		Tehran (1974-08-29)	^[11]
		Bangkok	Seoul		Montreal (1976-07-24)	^[12]
IX	1982 details	New Delhi			Montreal (1976-07-24)	^[12]
X	1986 details	Seoul	Baghdad Pyongyang Shanghai		New Delhi (1981-11-26)	^[13]
Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
XI	1990 details	Beijing	Hiroshima	Ulsan	3rd Seoul (1984)	^[14]
XII	1994 details	Hiroshima	Beijing	Ulsan	3rd Seoul (1984)	^[14]
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 (bid) 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	Beijing	26th Kuwait City (2007-04-17)	^[19]
XVIII	2019	~~Hanoi~~	Surabaya	Dubai	31st Macau (2012-11-08)	^[20]
XVIII	2018 details	Jakarta and Palembang	Only Bid		33rd Incheon (2014-09-19)	^[21]
XIX	2022 details	Hangzhou			34th Ashgabat (2015-09-16)	^[22]
XX	2026 details	Aichi^[a] and Nagoya			35th Danang (2016-09-25)	^[23]
XXI	2030 details	Doha	Riyadh		39th Muscat (2020-12-16)
XXII	2034 details	Riyadh	Only Bid		39th Muscat (2020-12-16)

List of Asian Winter Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
I	1986 details	Sapporo	Only bid		3rd Seoul (1984)	^[14]
II	1990 details	~~India~~	Only bid			^[24]
II	1990 details	Sapporo	Only bid		8th Bali (1989)	^[24]
III	1995	~~Samjiyon~~	Only bid
III	1996 details	Harbin	Gangwon		12th Kuwait City (1993-12-02)	^[25]
IV	1999 details	Gangwon	Only bid		12th Kuwait City (1993-12-02)	^[25]
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		21st Busan (2002-10-02)	^[25]^[26]
VII	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]
IX	2025 details	Harbin	Only bid		42rd Bangkok (2023-07-08)	^[29]
X	2029 details	Trojena	Only bid		41st Phnom Penh (2022-10-04)

List of Asian Youth Games bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities	OCA assembly	Ref
I	2009 details	Singapore	Only bid
II	2013 details	Nanjing	Only bid		29th Guangzhou (2010-11-13)	^[30]
III	2017	~~Hambantota~~	Only bid		No Kuwait City (2012-06-12)	^[31]
	2017	~~Jakarta~~	Only bid		34th Ashgabat (2015-09-16)	^[32]
	2021 details	~~Surabaya~~	Only bid		31st Macau (2012-11-08)	^[20]
	2021 details	Shantou	Only bid		38th Bangkok (2019-03-03)	^[32]
IV	2025	Tashkent	Only bid		No Doha (2019-09-28)	^[33]
V	2029	Phnom Penh	Only bid		40th Dubai (2021-11-22)	^[34]

Notes

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v t e Bids for the Asian Games
Asian Games (Summer)	1951¹ 1954¹ 1958¹ 1962 1966² 1970² 1974 1978² 1982² 1986² 1990 and 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010² 2014 2018² 2022² 2026² 2030 and 2034
Asian Winter Games	1986² 1990² 1996 and 1999 2003² 2007² 2011² 2017²
Asian Youth Games	2009² 2013² 2021²
1 – Games handed without bids submitted; 2 – Only one bid submitted

v t e Asian Games
Sports Bids OCA NOCs Medal table Summer Winter Mascots
Summer Games	1951 New Delhi 1954 Manila 1958 Tokyo 1962 Jakarta 1966 Bangkok 1970 Bangkok 1974 Tehran 1978 Bangkok 1982 New Delhi 1986 Seoul 1990 Beijing 1994 Hiroshima 1998 Bangkok 2002 Busan 2006 Doha 2010 Guangzhou 2014 Incheon 2018 Jakarta & Palembang 2022 Hangzhou^† 2026 Aichi-Nagoya 2030 Doha 2034 Riyadh
Winter Games	1986 Sapporo 1990 Sapporo 1996 Harbin 1999 Kangwon 2003 Aomori 2007 Changchun 2011 Astana & Almaty 2017 Sapporo 2025 Harbin 2029 Trojena
^†Postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic