It is the successor to the "Far Eastern Deaf Football Championship" which was held in Taipei in 1983.

At that time, the games was known as the Asia Pacific Deaf Football Championship which was held biennially until 1988.

In 1988, the games' governing body Asia Pacific Deaf Sports Confederation was formed during the 3rd Championship in Melbourne, Australia with Ms. Wendy Home as its first administrator.

[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Source:[12] *   Host nation (Hong Kong)  *   Host nation (Japan)  *   Host nation (Australia)  *   Host nation (South Korea)  *   Host nation (Malaysia)  *   Host nation (Taiwan)  *   Host nation (South Korea)Chinese: 2015年亞太聽障運動會; pinyin: 2015 Nián yàtài tīng zhàng yùndònghuì[19]Officially known as: 8th Asia Pacific Deaf Games (Chinese: 第8屆亞太聽障運動會; pinyin: Dì 8 jiè yàtài tīng zhàng yùndònghuì)Motto: The Power of Silence (Chinese: 安靜的力量; pinyin: Ānjìng de lìliàng)Officially opened by: Cheng Wen-tsan (Mayor of Taoyuan)Athlete's oath: Huang Shu Min (Bowling)Torch lighter: Wang Shih Wei (Athletics), Peng Si Ting (Taekwondo) [20][21] [22] Non-Deaflympics sport is denoted with asterisk (*)

*   Host nation (Taiwan)5 Games records were broken, all were from athletics.