ITTF Pan American Championships 2025 (Pan American Championship) – is an annual table tennis tournament for countries of North and South America. The event will be organized by USA Table Tennis (a non-profit organization that serves as the official governing body for table tennis in the United States) under the patronage of ITTF Americas (the Pan American Table Tennis Confederation). It will be held in Rock Hill, SC, USA from October 12 to 19, 2025.
The tournament will feature seven events: men’s singles, doubles, and team; women’s singles, doubles, and team; and mixed doubles.
Qualification for the Tournament
Only associations with no outstanding debts (including 2023 affiliation fees with ITTF-Americas) are eligible to nominate players.
Eligibility of players is governed by ITTF regulations (para. 4.5.1).
Qualification quotas are allocated as follows:
- 4 teams qualified through the 2025 Central America Championships;
- 4 teams qualified through the 2025 South America Championships;
- 4 teams qualified through the 2025 Caribbean Championships;
- 1 team qualified through the 2025 North America Championships;
- 2 teams qualified via WORLD TEAM RANKING (AMERICAS TEAMS) — July 2025;
- 1 team from the host country.
Format Teams:
The New Olympic System will be used. Each national association may enter one men’s team and one women’s team. Each team must include at least 3 players; each player may play no more than 2 matches. Order of play:
- B/C vs Y/Z
- A vs X
- C vs Z
- A vs Y
- B vs X
- First stage: group round (preliminary groups of 3–4 teams, round-robin format).
- Second stage:
- Playoff for positions 5–8 (main draw),
- Playoff for positions 9–16 (consolation draw).
🏓 The Pan American Championships serve as qualification for the 2025 WTTTC. Six teams of each gender will qualify for the next WTTTC.
Doubles:
Men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles events are played in a knockout system. Matches are played as best of 5 games. Pairs must consist of players from the same association. Each association may enter one men’s pair, one women’s pair, and two mixed pairs, including host associations.
Singles:
Each national association may nominate up to four (4) players of each gender, including hosts. Men’s and women’s singles events are played in a knockout system. Matches are played as best of 7 games.
Useful links
2025 Pan American Table Tennis Championships – link to the 2025 ITTF-Pan American Championships on Wikipedia
2025 Pan American Table Tennis Championships – link to the 2025 ITTF-Pan American Championships on the ITTF website
ITTF Pan American Championships 2025 – link to the 2025 ITTF-Pan American Championships on the ITTF-AMERICAS website
PAM 2025 (Rock Hill, USA) – link to the 2025 ITTF-Pan American Championships on the /tt-wiki.info website
ITTF Americas – playlist for the 2025 ITTF-Pan American Championships will be on the ITTF Americas YouTube channel
2025 ITTF Pan American Championships Playing system – playing system document on the ITTF website
2025 ITTF Pan American Championships List of Teams & Players Qualified – list of players and teams on the ITTF website
WTTTC 2026 Qualification System – qualification for the 2026 World Team Championships based on the tournament results on the ITTF website
