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. Xiamen set for May 23rd.
The world’s greatest athletes will return to the global stage next year as they embark on
another continent-crossing Wanda Diamond League campaign in 2026.
The 2026 season calendar has now been published and can be viewed on the Diamond
League website.
Following another record-breaking year in 2025, many of the sport’s biggest names will be
hoping to make history once again as athletics’ premier one-day series returns for its 17th
season.
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.
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.
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.
Aer stops in Stockholm, Oslo and Paris, the world’s 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.
The series then returns to Europe for meetings in Monaco and London, before the Road to
the Final enters the home straight in August.
Lausanne, Silesia and Zurich will be the last stops before the world’s biggest stars assemble
in Brussels for the Wanda Diamond League Final on September 4-5.
With meetings on four different continents, the Diamond League is one of the most truly
global series in world sport.
In 2025, it welcomed 400,000 spectators to some of the planet’s most iconic arenas and was
broadcast on television in 170 different countries.
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.
In 2026, that global reach will only grow as the sport’s biggest names return to Diamond
League action.
Swedish pole vault sensation Mondo Duplantis will be out to claim a sixth successive
Diamond League title in 2026, as he looks to improve on his latest world record of 6.30m.
US sprint star Noah Lyles became the most successful track athlete in Diamond League
history with his sixth series title in 2025, and now has the chance to equal or even surpass
the overall record of seven Diamond Trophies.
For newly crowned world champions such as the USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and
Jamaica’s Oblique Seville, the 2026 Diamond League offers the chance to confirm their topdog status in a season-long struggle for one of the sport’s biggest prizes.
With no Olympic Games or World Championships, the Diamond Trophy will be one of the
biggest global titles up for grabs in 2026.
The full dates for the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season are as follows:
May 8 – Doha
May 16 – Shanghai
May 23 – Xiamen
May 31 – Rabat
June 4 – Rome
June 7 – Stockholm
June 10 – Oslo
June 26 – Paris
July 4 – Eugene
July 10 – Monaco
July 18 – London
August 21 – Lausanne
August 23 – Silesia
August 27 – Zurich
September 4-5 – Final in Brussels
About the Wanda Diamond League
The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in athletics. It comprises 15
of the most prestigious events in global track and field, crossing four continents and 13
different countries to reach athletics fans in all corners of the world.
The series provides a unique opportunity for athletes across the full diversity of track and
field to compete at the highest level throughout the outdoor season. In 32 different
disciplines, athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the
two-day Wanda Diamond League Final, which will be held in Brussels on September 4-5 2026.