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Club Championship North America · 2026
The First
Champions.
Six founding clubs. One champion. How nine players and two coaches from a suburb north of Dallas won the first Club Championship North America — and what happened when Lee Chong Wei walked the medal line.
The First Champions
11:22 · arriving shortly
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11:22 · Manhattan Beach, California · 11–13 September 2026. The Club Championship North America is presented by The Legends’ Vision; footage of Lee Chong Wei and Saina Nehwal appears courtesy of the championship organisers.
What happened
Four ties. Four wins. Unbeaten.
Six clubs travelled to Manhattan Beach for the first edition of the Club Championship North America — from Washington, Ontario, Kansas and Texas. Each tie ran to seven disciplines, five played and two more chosen before a shuttle was struck.
The Falcons beat the Bellevue Guardians 5–2 on the Saturday evening. On Sunday they met them again in the final, and it went the whole distance: three matches to two, decided on the last court. Four ties, four wins, and the first championship in the history of the competition.
Then the hall was cleared and all six clubs came out onto one court together. Lee Chong Wei — three-time Olympic silver medallist, world number one for 349 weeks — put every medal on himself. He went down the line, shook every hand, and he did not hurry.
Final standings
- 1Frisco Falcons
- 2Bellevue Guardians
- 3Bintang Bears
- 4GBA Titans
- 5Kansas City Monarchs
- 6ClearOne Chargers
The team
Nine players. Two coaches.
Men
- Varin Karri
- Carsten Lam
- Srinivas Subash
- Abhiram Tripuraneni
- Aarya Vijay
Women
- Haziqa Mathani
- Charvi Murali
- Shraddha Prakash
- Tatthva Sharma
Coaches
- Abhishek Ahlawat
- Ankit Chhikara