World Sport Calendar
The only world sport calendar you’ll ever need.
Every major event in world sport, in one list, in date order. Football, F1, tennis, golf, cycling, rugby — the majors, the finals, the races that actually decide something. Scroll once and you know what’s on, what’s worth clearing an evening for, and what you’d otherwise have missed.
And it has a twin sister. Every week the newsletter lands before the action does, with next week’s biggest events in your sports and a word on why they matter. Easy to follow, hard to miss.
The majors, August to December 2026
This is the spine of the rest of the year — the events that actually decide something. Every date below was checked against the organisers rather than remembered. Where something is still provisional, we say so instead of guessing, because a calendar that is confidently wrong is worse than no calendar at all.
And follow the links. Every sport below goes straight to our latest coverage — the stories, the form and the context worth having before it starts.
August
| Sport | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Formula 1 | 21–23 Aug | Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort. The dunes, and a circuit that punishes anyone who treats it as a formality. |
| Cycling | 22 Aug – 13 Sep | Vuelta a España. Twenty-one stages from Monaco to Granada. The Grand Tour that had to reinvent itself to survive, and became the most unpredictable of the three. |
| Tennis | 30 Aug – 13 Sep | US Open, Flushing Meadows. Qualifying from 24 August. The loudest major, and the one where the noise is the point. |
September
| Sport | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Formula 1 | 4–6 Sep | Italian Grand Prix, Monza. The fastest circuit on the calendar, in front of the least forgiving crowd. |
| Football | 8–10 Sep | UEFA Champions League, league phase matchday one. The season’s first real evidence of who has actually built something. |
| American football | 9 Sep | NFL season opens, Seattle hosting New England. |
| Athletics | 11–13 Sep | World Athletics Ultimate Championship, Budapest. The first edition of a new biennial championship at the National Athletics Centre: 28 finals across three evening sessions, a record ten-million-dollar purse, and no medals at all. |
| Cycling · Tennis | 13 Sep | A rare collision. The Vuelta finishes in Granada and the US Open crowns its champions on the same day. |
| Cycling | 20–27 Sep | UCI Road World Championships, Montréal. Time trials 20–22, road races 24–27, decided on a finishing circuit around Mount Royal. |
| Formula 1 | 26 Sep | Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku. A street circuit that has never once produced a quiet race. |
October
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 29 Sep – 31 Oct | The MLB postseason. Wild Card series from 29 September, Division Series from 3 October, the Championship Series no earlier than the 11th, and World Series game one on 23 October. A game seven would fall on Halloween. |
| 11 Oct | Formula 1, Singapore Grand Prix. Under lights, in humidity that costs drivers several kilos a race. |
| 20 Oct | The NBA season opens. A tripleheader, and the champion Knicks raise their banner at Madison Square Garden before hosting Philadelphia. |
| 25 Oct | Formula 1, United States Grand Prix, Austin. |
November
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 Nov | Formula 1, Mexico City Grand Prix. Thin air at 2,200 metres, where the aerodynamics stop behaving normally. |
| 1–29 Nov | Rugby’s Autumn Nations Series. Four consecutive weekends of North against South, closing with finals weekend at Twickenham on 27–29 November. |
| 8 Nov | Formula 1, São Paulo Grand Prix, Interlagos. Historically where championships get settled. |
| 21 Nov | Formula 1, Las Vegas Grand Prix. |
| 29 Nov | Formula 1, Qatar Grand Prix. Provisional — see the note below. |
December
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 4–6 Dec | Formula 1, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The season finale. Provisional — see the note below. |
One honest caveat. Formula 1 has set itself a mid-September deadline to confirm whether the final two rounds can go ahead in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, with European venues held in reserve. Until that call is made, treat those two as pencilled in. We would rather tell you a date is uncertain than have you plan a weekend around it.
The majors, 2027
2027 is the crowded one. Rugby’s World Cup and cricket’s run almost on top of each other — Australia from 1 October, southern Africa from the 4th, both going deep into November. Before them, Brazil hosts the women’s football World Cup. The Ryder Cup turns 100 at Adare Manor, the Open goes back to St Andrews, and the Tour de France starts in Edinburgh.
Everything below is confirmed by the organisers unless it says otherwise. One large hole, stated plainly: Formula 1 has not published its 2027 calendar yet, so there is not a single grand prix in this list. That is the part of this page most likely to change before the new year.
January 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11–31 Jan | Australian Open, Melbourne Park. Qualifying from the 11th, main draw from Sunday the 17th, singles finals on the 30th and 31st. Three weeks, in the middle of an Australian summer. |
February 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 Feb – 13 Mar | The Six Nations. It opens on a Friday night in Dublin with Ireland against England, and it ends there too — Ireland against France on Super Saturday, 13 March. |
| 14 Feb | One date doing two jobs. England play France at Allianz Stadium, and Super Bowl LXI kicks off at SoFi Stadium that evening. The first Super Bowl ever played on Valentine’s Day. |
March 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 Mar | Six Nations Super Saturday, Ireland against France in Dublin. Kick-off at 20:10, so the championship is decided in the dark. |
April 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 8–11 Apr | The Masters, Augusta National. The one major that never moves and never changes course. |
May 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 8–30 May | The Giro d’Italia. The dates are set; the route is not, and RCS publishes it later this year. |
| 20–23 May | PGA Championship, PGA Frisco, Texas. Played at the PGA of America’s own headquarters. |
| 23 May – 6 Jun | Roland-Garros, Paris. Two weeks on clay, where the rest of the season’s form counts for least. |
June 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 Jun | Champions League final, Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid. The stadium’s second final, after 2019. |
| 17–20 Jun | US Open golf, Pebble Beach. Back on the Monterey coast, where the weather is part of the field. |
| 24 Jun – 25 Jul | The FIFA Women’s World Cup, Brazil. Eight host cities, opening on 24 June and running to the final on 25 July. FIFA has confirmed the dates but not yet named the stadiums for the opener and the final. |
| 28 Jun – 11 Jul | Wimbledon. Overlapping the Women’s World Cup and the first week of the Tour, which is what a crowded year looks like. |
July 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2–25 Jul | The Tour de France, Grand Départ in Edinburgh. It starts in Scotland on a Friday and finishes in Paris three weeks later. |
| 15–18 Jul | The Open, the Old Course at St Andrews. The rota returns to the course the rest of them are measured against. |
August 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 24 Aug – 5 Sep | UCI Cycling World Championships, Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc. Twenty world championships in thirteen days across fifteen venues in the French Alps, with the track racing held near Paris at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. |
| 29 Aug – 12 Sep | US Open tennis, Flushing Meadows. |
September 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 4–26 Sep | The Vuelta a España. The whole race inside a single month this time. |
| 11–19 Sep | World Athletics Championships, Beijing National Stadium. Back in the Bird’s Nest, twelve years after the last one. |
| 17–19 Sep | The Ryder Cup, Adare Manor, County Limerick. The 46th match and the hundredth year of it. Build-up days run 13–16 September. |
October 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 Oct – 13 Nov | The Rugby World Cup, Australia. The first with 24 teams: 52 matches, seven host cities, opening with Australia against Hong Kong China in Perth. |
| 4 Oct – 21 Nov | The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Fourteen teams, back up from ten. Provisional — the ICC has not published its fixtures yet. |
November 2027
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 Nov | Rugby World Cup final, Stadium Australia, Sydney. |
| 21 Nov | Cricket World Cup final. Provisional, along with the rest of the tournament. |
Where the gaps are, and why. Formula 1 has not published its 2027 calendar. Twenty-four races are expected and the season is expected to open in March; the changes already trailed are the Dutch Grand Prix dropping off, Barcelona taking a year out, and Turkey and Portugal returning. F1 has said the calendar comes after the summer break, and it normally lands in October or November. The NBA and MLB do not publish their finals dates this far ahead either. There is no Olympic Games in 2027 — it falls in the gap between Milano-Cortina and Los Angeles. And December is blank for those reasons, not because the year ends quietly.
Each of these gets filled in here as the governing bodies publish. The mail carries the changes as they land, which is the easier way to hear about them.
What is coming up
In date order, across every sport we cover. Football, Formula 1, tennis, golf, cycling, rugby, cricket, basketball, baseball, American football, MMA and the Olympic calendar — the fixtures, the venues and the start times, as they stand right now.
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What the calendar covers
Twelve sports, and within each one the competitions that decide something. In football that means the continental and world stage, where a single tie can end a project that took a decade to build. In Formula 1 it means the race weekends themselves, because a championship is only ever won on the days everyone is on track together. Tennis runs on its majors and the tour that feeds them; golf on the four weeks a year that define a career.
Cycling is the Grand Tours and the one-day races old enough to have their own mythology. Rugby, cricket, basketball, baseball and American football each bring their own rhythm — some a long season that rewards patience, some a short tournament that punishes a single bad afternoon. MMA arrives in numbered cards. And the Olympic calendar sits over all of it, rearranging four years of planning around a fortnight.
The list is deliberately finite. A calendar that shows you everything is a calendar you stop reading by the second week.
Get the month before it starts
A calendar you have to remember to visit is only half a calendar. So we send it. One mail a week before each month turns, carrying the month ahead — what is on, when, and where it matters. Then a short note on Fridays if the weekend holds something you would regret sleeping through.
That is all it is. No daily digest, no breaking-news alerts, no filler in weeks when nothing is happening. If there is nothing worth flagging, we do not write to you. Results are not mailed either — those stay here on the site, kept and findable, so the mail creates the appointment and the site holds the outcome.
Why a calendar, and not a news feed
Because the two jobs are different, and most sports sites only do the first one. A news feed tells you what has already happened, which is useful for roughly a day. A calendar tells you what is about to happen, which is useful for as long as the season runs — and it is the thing that actually changes whether you see the event or read about it afterwards.
It also reflects how World Sport Talk works. We do not chase the wire. We write about why something happened and what it means for the next time — the money moving through a sport, the physical cost of staying at the top of one, the tactical detail that rewards knowing. That kind of writing does not expire on Thursday, and it reads better when you have watched the thing it is about. Hence the calendar first.
Where the results live
Every sport keeps its own page here, with the recent results and the background pieces that go with them. If you came for a score and stayed for the reason it happened, that is the intended route.
Start with all twelve sports, or go straight to the one you follow — football, Formula 1, tennis, golf, cycling, rugby, cricket, basketball or baseball.
The calendar tells you when. The site tells you why. Between the two, nothing you cared about gets away.