Though not an Olympic year, 2025 will have its fair share of sporting events. Cricket will witness the return of the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy after an eight-year absence. The tournament finally got the green signal from the world governing body after months of drama following a dispute between BCCI and PCB, as a result […]
Though not an Olympic year, 2025 will have its fair share of sporting events. Cricket will witness the return of the
ICC Men’s Champions Trophy after an eight-year absence. The tournament finally
got the green signal from the world governing body after months of drama following a dispute between BCCI and PCB, as a result of which the tournament that was scheduled to be hosted entirely by Pakistan will have India playing its matches in Dubai, UAE.
August 27-28 — Diamond League Final, Athletics.April 19 – May 5 — World Snooker Championship 2025.
Champions Trophy returns after eight-year absence
April 4-15 — Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2025.
Football will witness the Women’s Euro take place in the month of July in Switzerland in which England will have the rare honour of entering a tournament – either in men’s or women’s football – as the defending champions. Also taking place next year is the
21st FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.
Chopra to defend world title in Tokyo
May 27-31 — 2025 Asian Athletics Championship.
November 16-29 — World Rifle and Pistol Championships, Cairo (Shooting)January 13-19, 2025 — Kho Kho World Cup
Full list of major sporting events taking place in 2025
June 14 – July 13 — FIFA Club World Cup, 2025.September 13-21 — 2025 World Wrestling Championships.September 27 – October 19 — 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.July 11 – August 3 — 2025 World Aquatics Championship.May 10-11 — 2025 World Athletics Relays.October 13-19 — 2025 BWF World Junior Championships, Badminton.December 21, 2025 – January 18, 2026 — 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Football.July 12 – August 2 — Copa América Femenina, Football.February 25 – June 22 — FIH Hockey Pro League 2024-25 (Men).January 14-19, 2025 — Badminton India Open 2025, New Delhi.February 15 – June 29 — FIH Hockey Pro League 2024-25 (Women).March 11-16 — All England Open, Badminton.February 7-14, 2025 — Asian Winter Games
October 1-10 — World Weightlifting Championships.March 1-12 — Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2025.End of ArticleThe Indian men’s cricket team, additionally faced both England and Australia in marquee five-Test series’ this year at home and away respectively – although in case of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, the final match of the series in Sydney will be getting underway on 3 January.November, dates TBD — World Boxing Cup Final, New Delhi (Boxing)January 12-26, 2025 — Women’s Hockey India League (WHIL) 2024-25.April 27 — London Marathon.August 7-17 — 2025 World Games.August 25 – September 7 — US Open, Tennis.October 19-25 — 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.March 14 – December 7 — 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship.July 2-27 — UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.Also Read |
From D Gukesh to ’next Usain Bolt’ Gout Gout, top 10 sportspersons to watch out for in 2025There will be special attention on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, in which Neeraj Chopra will be hoping to defend his title after suffering multiple heartbreaks in 2024 – including
missing out on gold in the Paris Olympics, where rival and friend Arshad Nadeem threw further than him. Focus will also be on the Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi after
India’s record haul of 29 medals in the Paralympics in Paris in September.
December 10-14 — BWF World Tour Finals, China.May 25 – June 7 — 2025 French Open, Tennis.February 7-December 12, 2025: Freestyle Grand Slam Chess TourDecember, dates TBD — Men’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup, India.September 13-21 — 2025 World Athletics Championships.May 17-25 — World Table Tennis Championships, 2025.July 5-29 — FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025, Chess.September 5-12 — 2025 World Archery Championships.August 25-31 — World Badminton Championships, Paris.April 7-13 — 2025 Masters Tournament, Golf.June 30 – July 13 — Wimbledon 2025.July 5-26 — CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, Football.Last, but not the least, there will be plenty of attention on chess star Magnus Carlsen and the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour that he is a co-founder of which will be getting underway in February in Germany. There has been some controversy in the build-up to the tournament that will have a unique format of its own and is even aiming for its own World Championship,
which has not gone down well with FIDE – the Lausanne-based body that governs chess at a global level.December 28, 2024 – February 1, 2025 — Men’s Hockey India League 2024-25 (HIL).
Also taking place next year is the ICC Women’s World Cup which will be taking place in the months of August and September, in which the hosts will be eyeing their first major global title after years of heartbreak. Then there’s the World Test Championship Final at Lord’s, the ‘Home of Cricket’, in June for which India and Australia currently are fighting it out with
South Africa having already qualified for the summit clash. And lest we forget, India and England are set to face each other in a five-match Test series for the second time in as many years, this time in the latter’s home turf.
