The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Kingston, Jamaica from 4 August to 13 August 1966. This was the first time that the Games had been held outside the so-called White Commonwealth countries. Kingston was elected host in Rome, Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Thirty-four nations (including Aden and Saudi Arabia) competed in the Kingston Games sending a total of 1,316 athletes and officials. 

The nine sports on the programme were were athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, fencing, shooting, swimming and diving, weightlifting and wrestling. Event programme was altered for the first time since 1950 with lawn bowls and rowing dropped and replaced with badminton and shooting instead.