ITTF Foundation Featured as the ITTF Reaches ASOIF's Top Governance Tier

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) enters the A1 group of the ASOIF Governance Review for the first time in its centenary year. As part of the ITTF Group, the ITTF Foundation is proud to have played its part and contributed to the topic of transparent monitoring of development funds, highlighted among the ITTF Group's good governance practices.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) published the results of its Sixth Review of International Federation Governance and the ITTF entered ASOIF's highest tier “the A1 group” for the very first time, achieving a score of 221 out of 240 and ranking sixth among the 14 top-tier International Federations, alongside organisations such as FIFA, World Athletics, World Aquatics and World Rugby. Reaching this milestone in the ITTF's centenary year makes the achievement all the more meaningful, marking a governance standard fit for the century ahead. Behind the score lies substance. In its accompanying publication, Examples of Good Governance Practice 2025-26, ASOIF highlights initiatives from Member Federations that address the review's 60 indicators in an "industry-leading" way. Seven ITTF practices are featured, and one of them belongs to the heart of the ITTF Foundation’s work.

Under indicator 5.3, Monitoring Development Funds, ASOIF recognises that the redistribution of funds through the ITTF Foundation is subject to transparent reporting and external audit, with the allocation and distribution of funds published annually in the ITTF Foundation's public annual reports.

As the social responsibility arm of the ITTF Group, we believe that trust is the foundation of impact. Every contribution invested in table tennis for development must be traceable, independently audited and openly reported. This recognition by ASOIF confirms that the way we handle the resources entrusted to us stands among the leading practices in the Olympic Movement.

Recognition across the ITTF Group

The Foundation's example sits within a broader set of seven ITTF good practices featured by ASOIF, spanning three of the review's five pillars:

Transparency

  • Allowances and benefits (2.9): publication of the ITTF Travel Policy and Allowance and Benefits Policy
  • Disciplinary decisions (2.12): decisions published in both the Documents and Integrity sections of the ITTF website

Development and Sustainability

  • Monitoring development funds (5.3): transparent, externally audited redistribution through the ITTF Foundation
  • Environmental monitoring (5.5): published carbon footprint assessments of events with independent evaluation, and sustainability as a key factor in host country selection

Control mechanisms

  • Audit committee (6.2): the Audit and Finance Committee reports to the AGM, with its report included in the ITTF Annual General Report
  • Internal controls (6.3): the Committee's Terms of Reference define budget oversight, risk management and policy definition as key functions
  • Data protection and IT security (6.12): published Data Retention and Data Protection Policies

Together, these examples show that good governance at the ITTF is not the work of one office or one document. It runs through the entire Group, from the Federation's boardroom to the Foundation's projects on the ground.

Being featured is encouraging; staying worthy of that trust is the real task. The ITTF Foundation will continue to publish its annual reports in full, subject its funding flows to external audit, and act with clarity and transparency in everything we do, contributing to the good governance of the entire ITTF Group as table tennis enters its next century.

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