WThe 18th World Athletics Indoor Championships are scheduled to be held from 18 to 20 March 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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 2021 BWF World Tour Finals will be the final tournament of the 2021 BWF World Tour. It will be held from 1 to 5 December 2021 in Bali, Indonesia and has a total prize of $1,500,000.
WThe 2021 Breeders' Cup World Championships is the 38th edition of the premier event of the North American thoroughbred horse racing year. The 14 races, all but one of which are Grade I, will take place on November 5 and 6 at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California and will be telecast by NBC and NBC Sports. The Breeders' Cup is generally regarded as the end of the North America racing season, although a few Grade I events take place in later November and December. The event typically determines champions in many of the Eclipse Award divisions.
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 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup will be the twelfth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup and is scheduled to be held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7 March 2021 but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 December 2020, the ICC confirmed that the tournament will take place from 4 March to 3 April 2022.
WThe 2021 Algarve motorcycle Grand Prix will be the seventeenth round of the 2021 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It is scheduled to be held at the Algarve International Circuit in Portimão on 7 November 2021.
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 January to 4 February 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 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 25th event by the International Handball Federation, will be held in Spain from 1 to 19 December 2021. On 18 October 2018, at a congress in Doha, Qatar, the IHF announced that the World Championship would be expanded from 24 teams to 32 teams from 2021 onwards. The Netherlands will be the defending champions after winning for the first time in 2019.
WThe 2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships will be the 46th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It will begin on December 26, 2021, and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2022.
WThe 2024 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships will be the 48th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It will begin on December 26, 2023 and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2024. This marks the 7th time that Sweden will host the WJIHC.
WThe 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships will be the 47th Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It will begin on December 26, 2022, and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2023.
WThe 2022 IIHF World Championship will be hosted by Finland from 13 to 29 May 2022, as the IIHF announced on 19 May 2017.
WThe 2021 European Mixed Team Judo Championships will be held in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia on 27 November 2021. The competition will be the 3rd edition of the European Mixed Team Judo Championships, following the Yekaterinburg 2018 and Minsk 2019 editions.
WThe 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship, the eleventh Women's World Championship, is the preeminent international women's lacrosse tournament. The tournament will be held at the Towson University in Towson, Maryland.
WThe 2022 NHL Stadium Series is an upcoming outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Stadium Series of games. The game will take place on February 26, 2022 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, with the Nashville Predators hosting to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
WThe 2021 Rally Monza is a motor racing event for rally cars that is scheduled to hold over four days between 18 and 21 November 2021. It will mark the forty-second running of Monza Rally Show and will be the twelfth and final round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, World Rally Championship-3. The event will be based in the famous Autodromo Nazionale di Monza circuit near Milan, where the Italian Grand Prix is held. The rally will cover a total competitive distance of 254.46 km (158.11 mi).
WThe 2021 Rugby League World Cup will be the sixteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in England from 15 October 2022 to 19 November 2022. It was originally going to be held between 23 October 2021 and 27 November 2021, however the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent withdrawals of Australia and New Zealand caused the tournament to be postponed. The tournament will be competed for by 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 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. The United States is the holder of the Ryder Cup after its 19–9 victory over Europe in 2021 at Whistling Straits.
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 Caesars 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 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.
WThe 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will be the 19th staging of the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) and the Netherlands and Poland selected as dual hosts for this event.