Where to Watch The European Athletics Championships 2026

From 10 to 16 August 2026, Europe's best track and field athletes descend on Birmingham for the 27th European Athletics Championships , the first time a British city has staged the event. Held at the newly redeveloped Alexander Stadium, the Championships bring together more than 1,500 athletes from over 50 nations competing for 144 medals.

Birmingham 2026 also introduces "One-Day-Deciders" in several events, meaning heats and finals can unfold on the same day, so a morning 100m round can lead straight into that evening's final.

Dates: Monday 10 to Sunday 16 August 2026
Venue: Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Teams: over 50 European nations and 1,500+ athletes, each federation fielding men's and women's squads
Watch: live and free on Eurovision Sport, subject to broadcast restrictions in your territory

European Athletics Championships Schedule

Alexander Stadium hosts 13 sessions across the seven days, split between morning and evening slots, with race walks and the marathon taking place on Birmingham's streets and finishing in Victoria Square, rather than in the stadium.

All times below are local UK time (British Summer Time, BST) and are subject to change.

Date	Event
Monday 10th August	19:03 – Women's shot put final
	20:33 – Men's shot put final
	20:40 – Men's 5000m final
	21:40 – Mixed 4x400m Relay final
	21:50 – Women's 100m final
Tuesday 11th August	19:10 – Men's Hammer Throw final
	19:25 - Women's 5000m final
	20:16 – Men's Long Jump Final
	21:30 – 100m Hurdles women's final
	21:47 – Men's 100m Final
Wednesday 12th August	19:45 – Women's Hammer Throw Final
	20:50 – 400m Men's Final
	21:08 – Women's 400m Hurdles Final
	21:47 – Men's 110m Hurdles Final
Thursday 13th August	19:40 – Women's Triple Jump Final
	19:50 – Women's Pole Vault Final
	20:29 – Women's 3000m Steeplechase final
	20:45 – Men's Discus Throw Final
	21:10 – Men's 1500m Decathlon
	21:28 – Men's 800m Final
	21:50 – Women's 200m Final
Friday 14th August	19:45 – Women's 10,000m Final
	20:00 – Men's High Jump Final
	20:30 – Women's Discus Throw Final
	20:40 – Men's 400m Hurdles Final
	21:25 – Men's 200m Final
	21:46 – Women's 800m Final
Saturday 15th August	07:30 – Men's Half Marathon Race Walk Final
	07:30 – Women's Half Marathon Race Walk Final
	07:30 – Men's Marathon Race Walk Final
	07:30 – Women's Marathon Race Walk Final
	19:45 – Women's 800m Heptathlon Final
	20:01 – Men's Javelin Throw Final
	20:07 – Women's High Jump Final
	20:10 – Women's 400m Final
	20:17 – Men's Triple Jump Final
	20:25 – Men's 10,000m Final
	21:07 - Men's 1500m Final
	21:33 – Men's 4x100m Relay Final
	21:48 – Women's 4x100m Relay Final
Sunday 16th August	07:30 – Women's Marathon Final
	08:10 – Men's Marathon Final
	19:30 – Men's Pole Vault Final
	19:55 – Women's Javelin Throw Final
	20:05 – Women's Long Jump Final
	20:35 – Mixed 4x100m Relay Final
	20:50 - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
	21:13 – Women's 1500m Final
	21:33 – Women's 4x400m Relay Final
	21:48 – Men's 4x400m Relay Final

What to Expect From The European Athletics Championships 2026

The European Athletics Championships in Birmingham 2026 is a standalone athletics event, following the same format as Rome 2024, rather than being folded into the wider multi-sport European Championships (as it was in Berlin, and Glasgow in 2018 and Munich 2022). That distinction matters: a standalone edition gives athletics its own week in the spotlight, rather than sharing billing with cycling, gymnastics and the triathlon. In the broader athletics calendar, it also sits opposite a fallow year for global championships, the next World Athletics Championships is in Beijing in September 2027.

Historically, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, and Poland feature at the top of the medal table, with host-nation advantage often producing a bump in medals (as Germany showed in Munich and Italy showed in Rome). Names likely to headline in Birmingham include Sweden's world record pole vaulter Armand "Mondo" Duplantis, Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m, Switzerland's Ditaji Kambundji in the 100m hurdles, and Germany's Malaika Mihambo in the long jump, alongside a strong home crowd cheering on the British team on their own soil.

European Athletics Championships at the Alexander Stadium Birmingham

The action is centred on Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, just north of Birmingham city centre, an iconic venue at the heart of British athletics.

Originally opened in 1927, it is the official home and headquarters of UK Athletics, and has hosted the British Grand Prix and World Athletics Diamond League tour.

The stadium underwent a £72 million redevelopment ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which it hosted (including the opening and closing ceremonies), and now offers four stands seating around 18,000, expandable to 40,000 for major events like Birmingham 2026, making it the largest purpose-built athletics facility in the UK.

Outside the stadium, the road events run on free-to-watch city-centre courses: the marathon covers eight laps of a five-kilometre circuit starting and finishing in Victoria Square, while the race walks take place on a one-kilometre loop starting on Colmore Row and finishing in Victoria Square, right in the heart of Birmingham.

Looking Back At The European Athletics Championships 2024 in Rome

The last edition of the European Athletics Championships was held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. Host nation Italy topped the medal table with 24 medals in total (11 gold, 9 silver, 4 bronze), ahead of France in second with 16 medals and Great Britain & Northern Ireland in third with 13.

The Championships delivered several standout moments in front of passionate home crowds:

Marcell Jacobs (ITA) secured men's 100m gold before helping Italy win the men's 4x100m relay on the final night.
Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen completed a third consecutive 1500m/5000m double, taking his tally to six European Championship titles.
Croatia's Sandra Elkasevic won the discus to become the first athlete in the European Championships' history to claim seven individual gold medals.
Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis also thrilled the crowd with a new European Championship pole vault record.

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