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The heavyweight fight British boxing spent a decade failing to make is being put together for Cardiff's Principality Stadium, with its roof closed and around 75,000 seats sold. The date is reported rather than contracted: 28 November is the front-runner, with 4 and 11 December also in play.

The UFC closes its 2026 numbered calendar at T-Mobile Arena, with two-time middleweight champion Sean Strickland defending against Nassourdine Imavov in the main event.

The women's singles final closes the Australian Open's second Saturday on Rod Laver Arena, a day before the men decide theirs. The winner lifts the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

The first Grand Slam final of the season closes the Australian Open on Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne Park's centre court seats about 15,000 under a roof that keeps the match on whatever the Melbourne heat does, and the winner takes the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

The season opens under the floodlights at Sakhir, and for the first time the opening round is a Sprint weekend.

Round two runs at night along the Red Sea on the fastest street circuit Formula 1 uses.

The championship reaches Melbourne, where public parkland roads around Albert Park lake become a circuit for the weekend.

The championship game of the 88th NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is played at Ford Field in Detroit, ending a tournament that begins on 16 March and is expanded to 76 teams.

Suzuka is the only figure-of-eight layout in Formula 1, its back straight crossing over the first sector on a bridge.

Shanghai's opening complex spirals tighter and tighter through Turns 1 to 3 before the longest straight of the season's early rounds.

The temporary circuit laid out around Hard Rock Stadium hosts the first of three United States rounds.

Montreal's island circuit is a run of long straights and chicanes that ends at the Wall of Champions.

The Europa League is decided at Eintracht Frankfurt's stadium, the ground that watched its own club win the competition in 2022. The final comes ten days before the Champions League decides Europe's top tier.

Europe's third club competition ends at Besiktas' stadium on the Bosphorus, a ground rebuilt on the site where the club has played since 1947. It is Istanbul's first UEFA club final since the 2023 Champions League final at the Ataturk.

The women's singles final is played on Court Philippe-Chatrier on the tournament's second Saturday, for the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen. It is the last clay-court title of the season's European spring.

Europe's club season ends in Madrid. The Estadio Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid's home since 2017, hosts the Champions League final for the second time after 2019, when Liverpool beat Tottenham there.

The clay-court major ends on Court Philippe-Chatrier, where the men's singles final is played for the Coupe des Mousquetaires. Chatrier has had a retractable roof since 2020, but the surface still decides the tennis: the slowest, longest matches of the year are played here.

The slowest, tightest and oldest race on the calendar runs through the streets of Monte Carlo, where qualifying decides most of it.

The 36th Africa Cup of Nations is hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, the first edition staged by three countries. Host cities include Nairobi, Eldoret, Kampala and Dar es Salaam.

Formula 1 returns to Portugal for the first time since 2021, on Portimao's roller-coaster of blind crests and steep drops.

The 10th FIFA Women's World Cup is the first held in South America, played across eight stadiums in eight Brazilian cities including the Maracanã. Spain are the defending champions, and it is the last edition contested by 32 teams before the expansion to 48 in 2031.

The British Grand Prix returns to the old RAF airfield that held the first World Championship race in 1950.

The ladies' singles final is played on Centre Court on the second Saturday of the Championships, for the Venus Rosewater Dish. The All England Club has the 2027 fortnight running 28 June to 11 July.

The oldest title in tennis is decided on Centre Court on the second Sunday. The All England Club has published its 2027 dates: the Championships run 28 June to 11 July, and the gentlemen's singles final closes them.