{"id":2732,"date":"2025-10-21T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:44:42","slug":"wanda-diamond-league-season-calendar-confirmed-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wanda-diamond-league-season-calendar-confirmed-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Diamond League season calendar confirmed for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The 2026 Diamond League season will begin in Doha on May 8 and finish at the two-day series final in Brussels on September 4-5.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s greatest athletes will return to the global stage next year as they embark on another continent-crossing Wanda Diamond League campaign in 2026.<br>The 2026 season calendar has now been published and can be viewed in the end of this article.<br>Following another record-breaking year in 2025, many of the sport\u2019s biggest names will be hoping to make history once again as athletics\u2019 premier one-day series returns for its 17th season.<br>As in previous years, athletes will compete for points at 14 meetings as they bid to qualify for the series final in Brussels and a shot at the iconic Diamond Trophy.<br>The 2026 Road to the Final will begin in Asia, with Doha hosting the season opener on May 8 before back-to-back Chinese meetings in Shanghai and Xiamen.<br>The African leg of the series will take place in Rabat on May 31, before the first European meeting of the season in Rome the following week.<br>After stops in Stockholm, Oslo and Paris, the world\u2019s biggest stars will head to Eugene on the US west coast for a meeting which has seen five world records in the past three seasons alone.<br>The series then returns to Europe for meetings in Monaco and London, before the Road to the Final enters the home straight in August.<br>Lausanne, Silesia and Zurich will be the last stops before the world\u2019s biggest stars assemble in Brussels for the Wanda Diamond League Final on September 4-5.<br>With meetings on four different continents, the Diamond League is one of the most truly global series in world sport.<br>In 2025, it welcomed 400,000 spectators to some of the planet&#8217;s most iconic arenas and was broadcast on television in 170 different countries.<br>It also reached an online fanbase of five million social media followers worldwide, notching up more than one billion impressions and more than 900 million video views across all platforms.<br>In 2026, that global reach will only grow as the sport&#8217;s biggest names return to Diamond League action.<br>With no Olympic Games or World Championships, the Diamond Trophy will be one of the biggest global titles up for grabs in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The full dates for the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season are as follows:<\/strong><br><br>May 8 &#8211; 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