WThe 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held in Kitakyushu, Japan from October 18–24, 2021. The competition will take place at the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium. It will be the third time that Japan has hosted the event, following the 1995 and 2011 editions.
WThe 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known as the World Junior Championships, are an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors, taking place from 17 to 22 August 2021 at the Nyayo Sports Complex in Nairobi, Kenya.
WThe 2022 World Athletics Championships, the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held in 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was originally scheduled for August 6–15, 2021. However, the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics prompted the need for postponement into 2022. On April 8, 2020, World Athletics announced that the event would take place from July 15–24, 2022.
WThe 2021 BWF World Championships is a badminton tournament which will be held from 12 to 19 December 2021 at Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín in Huelva, Spain.
WThe World Chess Championship 2021 will be a chess match between reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation, and played in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 16 December 2021. The match was originally scheduled for the latter half of 2020, but was postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WThe 41st Curtis Cup Match is scheduled to be played 26–28 August 2021 at Conwy Golf Club near Conwy, Wales. It was originally scheduled for 12–14 June 2020 but was postponed to 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WThe 2022 Grand National will be the 174th annual running of the Grand National horse race. It will take place on Saturday, 9 April 2022, at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England. The event will once again be sponsored by Randox Health.
WThe 108th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2021 season. The game is scheduled to be played on December 12, 2021 at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. It will be the 11th time that Hamilton has hosted the Grey Cup, with the most recent coming in 1996, and the first to be played at the new Tim Hortons Field.
WThe 2022 EHF European Men's Handball Championship will be the 15th edition of the tournament and the second to feature 24 national teams. It will be co-hosted in two countries – Hungary and Slovakia – from 13 to 30 January 2022.
WThe 2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship will be the 16th edition of the tournament and the third to feature 24 national teams. It will be hosted in Germany – from 12 to 28 January 2024.
WThe 2022 European Women's Handball Championship will be held in Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro from 4 to 20 November 2022.
WThe 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is scheduled to be the seventh ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament, with matches taking place in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
WThe 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship is an upcoming international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), which will be contested in Calgary, Alberta from 20 to 31 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to be contested in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. It will be the 20th edition of the IIHF Women's World Championship Top Division tournament.
WThe 2021 Little League World Series is scheduled to take place during August 19–29, 2021, at the Little League headquarters complex in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event is limited to US-based teams only. The most recent prior edition of the tournament contested without international teams was 1975.
WThe 2021 MLB Little League Classic is a regular season Major League Baseball (MLB) game scheduled to be played on August 22, 2021, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, during the 2021 MLB season and the 2021 Little League World Series. It will be the fourth playing of the annual MLB Little League Classic game.
WThe 2021 Rugby League World Cup will be the sixteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in England between 23 October 2021 and 27 November 2021. The tournament will include 16 teams, an increase of two from the last two tournaments.
WThe 2021 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the ninth edition of the Rugby World Cup for women, to be held in New Zealand in the cities of Auckland and Whangārei. It was originally to be held in 2021, but was officially postponed by a year in March 2021 due to COVID-19. This will be the first women's Rugby World Cup to be held in the southern hemisphere. The eighth World Cup was played in 2017 in Dublin and Belfast, setting record attendances and viewership numbers.
WThe 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the tenth edition of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. It is scheduled to take place in France from 8 September to 28 October 2023 in nine venues across the country. The opening match and final will take place at the Stade de France. The tournament will take place in the year of the 200th anniversary of the “invention” of the sport by William Webb Ellis. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to last the typical six weeks; however, on 23 February 2021, World Rugby announced an additional week to accommodate the additional rest day requirement for player-welfare. This means that teams will have a minimum of five rest days for all matches, optimising recovery and preparation for the tournament. It will be the third time France has hosted the Rugby World Cup, having previously hosted the 2007 event and as joint hosts in 1991. It precedes the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and will take place less than a year before the Olympic opening ceremony.
WThe 43rd Ryder Cup Matches will be held in the United States on September 24 to 26, 2021, on the Straits course at Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin. Team Europe is the reigning cup holder after its 17½–10½ victory over Team USA in 2018 at Le Golf National.
WThe 44th Ryder Cup Matches will be held in Italy in autumn 2023 at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Guidonia Montecelio near Rome. The biennial event was originally scheduled from 30 September to 2 October 2022, before the 43rd matches were postponed into 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WSuper Bowl LVI will be the 56th Super Bowl and the 52nd modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship. The game is scheduled to be played on February 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. It will be the eighth Super Bowl hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Area, with the last one being Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, held at the Rose Bowl, and the first in the city of Inglewood. The game will be televised nationally by NBC.
WSuper Bowl LIX, the 59th Super Bowl and the 55th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game, will decide the league champion for the 2024 NFL season. The game is scheduled to be played on February 9, 2025, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. It will be the eighth Super Bowl played in the Superdome, and the eleventh in the city of New Orleans, the most recent being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, held in the same venue. It will be televised nationally by Fox.
WThe 2020 Thomas & Uber Cup will be the 31st edition of the Thomas Cup and the 28th edition of the Uber Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men and women's national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament will be hosted by Aarhus, Denmark.
WThe 2021 UCI Road World Championships is the 94th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It will take place between 19 and 26 September 2021 in the Flanders region of Belgium. The region was chosen in light of the 100 year anniversary of the world championships with the UCI opting for a return to one of the original founding countries.
WThe 2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship will be the 32nd edition of the Men's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. For the second time the EuroVolley will be held in four countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia and Finland. The number of national teams that will participate in the event remains to 24.
WThe 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship will be 32nd edition of the Women's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. For the second time the Women's EuroVolley will be held in four countries: Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania.
WThe 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship will be the 20th staging of the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament will be held in Russia from 26 August to 11 September 2022. For the first time the tournament will be hosted by Russia.