From ICC Champions Trophy and World Athletics Championships to Ladies’s Euro, main sporting occasions in 2025

The 12 months 2024 had all of it when it got here to main sporting occasions. From the thirty third Summer season Olympics in Paris, town that hosted the world’s largest mega occasion for an unprecedented third time to the European Championship and the Copa America in soccer. It was additionally a reasonably busy 12 months for cricket with the lads’s and girls’s T20 World Cup happening inside a few months of one another.

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The Indian males’s cricket staff, moreover confronted each England and Australia in marquee five-Check collection’ this 12 months at dwelling and away respectively – though in case of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to Australia, the ultimate match of the collection in Sydney might be getting underway on 3 January.

Champions Trophy returns after eight-year absence

Although not an Olympic 12 months, 2025 could have its fair proportion of sporting occasions. Cricket will witness the return of the
ICC Males’s Champions Trophy after an eight-year absence. The event lastly
received the inexperienced sign from the world governing physique after months of drama following a dispute between BCCI and PCB, because of which the event that was scheduled to be hosted fully by Pakistan could have India enjoying its matches in Dubai, UAE.

Additionally happening subsequent 12 months is the ICC Ladies’s World Cup which might be happening within the months of August and September, wherein the hosts might be eyeing their first main world title after years of heartbreak. Then there’s the World Check Championship Closing at Lord’s, the ‘Dwelling of Cricket’, in June for which India and Australia presently are combating it out with
South Africa having already certified for the summit conflict. And lest we neglect, India and England are set to face one another in a five-match Check collection for the second time in as a few years, this time within the latter’s dwelling turf.

Chopra to defend world title in Tokyo

There might be particular consideration on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, wherein Neeraj Chopra might be hoping to defend his title after struggling a number of heartbreaks in 2024 – together with
lacking out on gold within the Paris Olympics, the place rival and buddy Arshad Nadeem threw additional than him. Focus can even be on the Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi after
India’s document haul of 29 medals within the Paralympics in Paris in September.

Soccer will witness the Ladies’s Euro happen within the month of July in Switzerland wherein England could have the uncommon honour of getting into a event – both in males’s or girls’s soccer – because the defending champions. Additionally happening subsequent 12 months is the
twenty first FIFA Membership World Cup in the US.

Final, however not the least, there might be loads of consideration on chess star Magnus Carlsen and the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour that he’s a co-founder of which might be getting underway in February in Germany. There was some controversy within the build-up to the event that may have a singular format of its personal and is even aiming for its personal World Championship,
which has not gone down effectively with FIDE – the Lausanne-based physique that governs chess at a world degree.

Full record of main sporting occasions happening in 2025

December 28, 2024 – February 1, 2025 — Males’s Hockey India League 2024-25 (HIL).

January 12-26, 2025 — Ladies’s Hockey India League (WHIL) 2024-25.

January 13-19, 2025 — Kho Kho World Cup

January 14-19, 2025 — Badminton India Open 2025, New Delhi.

February 7-14, 2025 — Asian Winter Video games

February 7-December 12, 2025: Freestyle Grand Slam Chess Tour

February 15 – June 29 — FIH Hockey Professional League 2024-25 (Ladies).

February 25 – June 22 — FIH Hockey Professional League 2024-25 (Males).

March 1-12 — Hockey India Senior Ladies Nationwide Championship 2025.

March 11-16 — All England Open, Badminton.

March 14 – December 7 — 2025 FIA Formulation One World Championship.

April 4-15 — Hockey India Senior Males Nationwide Championship 2025.

April 7-13 — 2025 Masters Event, Golf.

April 19 – Might 5 — World Snooker Championship 2025.

April 27 — London Marathon.

Might 10-11 — 2025 World Athletics Relays.

Might 17-25 — World Desk Tennis Championships, 2025.

Might 25 – June 7 — 2025 French Open, Tennis.

Might 27-31 — 2025 Asian Athletics Championship.

June 14 – July 13 — FIFA Membership World Cup, 2025.

June 30 – July 13 — Wimbledon 2025.

July 2-27 — UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2025.

July 5-26 — CAF Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations, Soccer.

July 5-29 — FIDE Ladies’s World Cup 2025, Chess.

July 11 – August 3 — 2025 World Aquatics Championship.

July 12 – August 2 — Copa América Femenina, Soccer.

August 7-17 — 2025 World Video games.

August 25 – September 7 — US Open, Tennis.

August 25-31 — World Badminton Championships, Paris.

August 27-28 — Diamond League Closing, Athletics.

September 5-12 — 2025 World Archery Championships.

September 13-21 — 2025 World Athletics Championships.

September 13-21 — 2025 World Wrestling Championships.

September 27 – October 19 — 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

October 1-10 — World Weightlifting Championships.

October 13-19 — 2025 BWF World Junior Championships, Badminton.

October 19-25 — 2025 World Inventive Gymnastics Championships.

November, dates TBD — World Boxing Cup Closing, New Delhi (Boxing)

November 16-29 — World Rifle and Pistol Championships, Cairo (Taking pictures)

December, dates TBD — Males’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup, India.

December 10-14 — BWF World Tour Finals, China.

December 21, 2025 – January 18, 2026 — 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Soccer.