This article details the qualifying phase for table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 172 table tennis players coming from their respective NOCs; each may enter up to six athletes, two male and two female athletes in singles events and up to one men's and one women's team in team events.
[1][2] Host nation Brazil has automatically qualified six athletes; a team of three men and women with one each competing in the singles.
[1] Forty places will be awarded to the table tennis players with a maximum of two per NOC and gender through the following continental qualification tournaments between July 1, 2015 and April 24, 2016: six each from Africa and Latin America, eleven each from Asia and Europe, and three each from North America and Oceania.
One invitational place per gender will be allocated by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).