2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Five sport events will be held at the SAT Sports Complex, which were some of the main venues of the 1966, 1970, 1978, and 1998 Asian Games, the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, the 2007 Summer Universiade, and the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games.

• Extreme Sport Arena – BMX cycling, roller sports
• Indoor Stadium Huamark – futsal (men's group stage and quater-finals)
• Rajamangala Stadium – sport climbing
• Shooting Range – shooting

Three sport events will be held at the National Stadium and Chulalongkorn University, which were some of the main venues of the 1966, 1970, 1978, and 1998 Asian Games, the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, the 2007 Summer Universiade, and the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games.

• Chaloem Rajasuda Sport Complex – 3x3 basketball
• Chantana Yingyong Stadium – netball
• Nimibutr Stadium – badminton

Two sport events will be held at the Bangkok Youth Center (Thai-Japan), which were some of the main venues of the 1998 Asian Games, the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, the 2007 Summer Universiade, and the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games.

• Gymnasium 1 – indoor hockey
• Gymnasium 2 – floorball

Two sport events will be held at the Assumption University Suvarnabhumi Campus in surrounding Samut Prakan Province, which were some of the main venues of the 2007 Summer Universiade.

• Aquatic Center – short course swimming
• Gymnasium – pencak silat

Additionally, stand-alone sports venues were located in various districts:

• Bangkok Arena in Nong Chok District – futsal (men's semi-finals and finals)
• Bangkok Thonburi University in Thawi Watthana District – futsal (women's tournament)
• Fashion Island Shopping Mall in Khan Na Yao District – sepaktakraw
• Major Ratchayothin Bangkok in Chatuchak District – bowling

Another stand-alone sports venue was located in surrounding Pathum Thani Province:

• Rangsit University – FPV drone racing, Teqball

Thirteen sport events will be held in Pattaya City, which were some of the main venues of the 2005 Asian Indoor Games.

• Ambassador Jomtien Center – billiard sports, chess, indoor rowing, kurash
• Eastern National Sports Training Center – indoor athletics
• Nongnooch Garden Pattaya – dancesport, ju-jitsu, karate, muaythai, sambo, taekwondo, wrestling
• Terminal 21 Pattaya Shopping Mall – esports

Other sports venues were located in capital Mueang Chonburi District:

• Multi Function Sports Stadium, Chonburi Town Municipality – volleyball (women's tournament)
• Sripatum University Chonburi Campus – kickboxing
• Thailand National Sports University Chonburi Campus – volleyball (men's tournament)

The article 74 of the Olympic Council of Asia constitution states that the programme of the AIMAG shall include not less than six indoor sports and two sports from martial arts sports, recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia. For this to happen, it will be a responsibility of the organizing committee to choose which of twenty-nine sports included within the status of indoor sports or martial arts sports and not part in latest editions of the Asian Games. The organizing committee can choose any sports part in latest editions of the Asian Games or not within the status of indoor sports or martial arts sports, if there are demands from the host country.[19]

Following the signing contract after successful negotiations with Thailand, the Olympic Council of Asia initially announced that the Games would feature twenty-six disciplines in twenty-four sports, including the seventeen indoor sports and seven martial sports and two demonstration sports established in the Games charter.[20][21] On 21 May 2020, the Olympic Council of Asia and the organizing committee announced the final number of sports on this edition's program with finals being held in twenty eight sports, seven more than those played in the previous edition in 2017. The number of sports programme increased to twenty-nine sports after successful negotiations to add shooting.[22]

A total of thirty-one disciplines in twenty-nine sports and two demonstration sports are scheduled to include.

Cheerleading, Floorball, Indoor rowing and Netball are sports that have recently been approved by International Olympic Committee and are on the World Games program and have low popularity and visibity in certain regions of Asia.However, in another countries or regions of the continent they are extremely popular.Going according to the original proposal of the event, this is their chance to be part of the sports program of a multisport event, which certainly increases their visibility on the continent and increase the chances that they will be included in the Olympic Games program in the future.[23]

Twelve sports that are part of the current Olympic program (athletics, badminton, 3x3 basketball, football, hockey, karate, roller sports, rowing, shooting, swimming, and taekwondo) are in this edition's program, however, some of them will be played in formats that are not part of the Olympic Games. Among these, three are new sports (badminton, shooting, and volleyball). Although they are part of the Asian Games programme too, the organizing committee will revamp the events to differ from current Asian Games programme. Badminton events will be reduced from 7 to 3, Asian Games.[20] The number of events in the shooting will also drop from 20 to just 5,only the pistol events (10 and 25 meters) are scheduled to be held.[22] Changes will also happen in volleyball tournaments. Each participating team will be able to register 12 athletes, however, up to 3 athletes may be over 23 years old. This measure was taken due to the congestion of the sport calendar in 2021, as the event coincides with the FIVB Volleyball Nations League first three weeks.[24]

Another specific case is that of sepak takraw, after 12 years hiatus the sport will be back on the program.As the national sport of Thailand, the format of the competitions and the number of events at the last Asian Games will be maintained. In addition,the four events that were excluded from Jakarta will be back, along the hoop, it is expected that five new mixed events will be added to the program.[25]

On July 16, 2020, the National Olympic Committee of Thailand announced that it proposed to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to open the event for athletes from the 24 National Olympic Committees from the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC). The proposal was accepted without any reservations by the OCA and the ONOC,as they proved the success on the 2017 Games held in Ashgabat and 2017 Sapporo Winter Games. The three stakeholders are planning to authorize the registration of athletes in 16 individual sports as integral part of the games. The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered.

Notes

All dates are ICT (UTC+7)