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2026 Asian Men's Handball Championship
22nd Asian Men's Handball Championship, held in Kuwait 15–29 January 2026; also called Kuwait 2026. Bahrain won its first title, beating Qatar 29–26 after extra time; Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Japan qualified for the 2027 World Championship.
2026 AVC Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship
2026 AVC Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship, 16th Asian under-18 boys' volleyball tournament, held 12-18 July 2026 in Haikou, China. Iran won its eighth title, first since 2014, beating Japan 3-1 in the final; Chinese Taipei took bronze.
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League
The 2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Champions League (AVC Champions League 2026), held 13-17 May in Pontianak, Indonesia, was won by Jakarta Bhayangkara Presisi, 3-1 over Foolad Sirjan Iranian; JTEKT Stings Aichi took bronze.
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Championship
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Championship (Kaitori Daikichi AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Fukuoka 2026), 12-team Asian volleyball tournament in Kitakyushu, Japan, September 4-13, 2026; Japan beat Iran 3-0 for an 11th title and LA28 berth; Korea took bronze.
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Cup
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Cup, formerly AVC Challenge Cup/Nations Cup, sixth edition, 20–28 June 2026 in Ahmedabad, India. Indonesia won its first gold, beating Korea 3-0 in the final; India took bronze.
2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Continental Championship
2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Continental Championship, Asian women's volleyball tournament in Tianjin, China, August 21-30, 2026. Thailand beat China 3-2 in the final for a fourth title and first Olympic qualification; Japan took bronze.
2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Cup
2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Cup, also AVC Women's Cup 2026: fifth edition of the AVC's second-tier women's continental tournament, 6–14 June 2026 in Candon, Philippines; Korea won its first title, beating Chinese Taipei in the final, with Vietnam taking bronze.
2026 EuroLeague Final Four
The 2026 EuroLeague Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 2025-26 EuroLeague season, held in Athens, where Olympiacos Piraeus beat Real Madrid 92-85 to win their fourth title.
2026 EuroLeague SuperCup
2026 EuroLeague SuperCup (EuroLeague Super Cup): inaugural season-opening four-team tournament, September 18-19, 2026 at Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi; Real Madrid beat Olympiacos 93-89 in the final, with Walter Tavares named MVP.
2026 FIBA 3x3 World Cup – Men's tournament
2026 FIBA 3x3 World Cup men's tournament, held June 1-7, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. Latvia won its first title, beating Germany 20-15; Karlis Lasmanis was MVP; Serbia took bronze; Spain, the defending champion, finished 14th.
2026 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
2026 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, Beijing, September 22–27, 2026; 36th FIBA club world championship, first in China. NBA G League United beat Rytas Vilnius 89–86 in the Final; Eric Dixon MVP; Boca Juniors third.
2026 FIBA U18 Asia Cup
2026 FIBA U18 Asia Cup, 28th edition, held Aug 13-23, 2026 in Ahmedabad, India. Australia beat China 89-79 in the Final to defend its title; NZ third; top four qualified for the U19 World Cup 2027.
2026 FIBA U18 Women's Asia Cup
2026 FIBA U18 Women's Asia Cup: under-18 women's basketball championship held in Seremban, Malaysia, October 4-10, 2026. Australia beat Japan for a third straight title; China third; Miya Takeuchi MVP; Division B won by Lebanon in Bangkok.
2026 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup
The 2026 FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup, eighth edition, held in Istanbul June 27-July 5, 2026. USA beat Serbia 107-81 for an eighth straight title; Australia took bronze; Boumtje Boumtje was MVP.
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup qualification
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup qualification: 16-team field for Berlin, five automatic berths (Germany, Nigeria, USA, Australia, Belgium) and eleven spots decided at four March 2026 Qualifying Tournaments in Istanbul, Lyon-Villeurbanne, San Juan, and Wuhan.
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments: four six-team round-robins, March 11-17, 2026, in Istanbul, Lyon-Villeurbanne, San Juan, and Wuhan; 24 teams, 60 games, 11 Berlin spots decided; qualifiers included Hungary, France, Italy, China, Mali, Czechia.
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup squads
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup squads: 16 national team rosters confirmed Sept 3, 2026 for Berlin, Sept 4–13. 70 current and former WNBA players; USA, France, Australia deepest; Wilson and Plum out, Citron and Iriafen added.
2026 FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament
FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament 2026, Guadalajara, Mexico, August 17-23, 2026: eight teams missing the World Cup 2026; Canada won 83-53 over Mexico, earning the lone 2028 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments berth.
2026 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
2026 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League (VNL 2026), eighth edition with 18 teams. Poland defended the title, beating USA 3-2 in the Ningbo Beilun final; Fornal MVP, Slovenia took first bronze, Japan topped the prelims 12-0.
2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship
2026 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship, second edition, Doha, Qatar, 19–29 August 2026. Iran beat France 3-1 in the final for the title; Brazil took bronze; Sina Hazrati was MVP.
2026 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship
2026 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship, second edition, held 6–16 August 2026 in Santiago, San Felipe, and Los Andes, Chile. 24 teams; USA swept Türkiye in the final for gold, China took bronze, ending defending champion China's reign.
2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, eighth VNL edition: 18 women's national teams, preliminary phase June 3-July 19, 2026, finals in Macao, China, July 22-26; Ukraine debuted, USA topped prelims, China beat USA in quarterfinals.
2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League squads
2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League squads: 18 national teams' 30-player lists published 18 May 2026; Italy, Brazil, Türkiye headline rosters; Ukraine debuted; Türkiye won the title in Macao.
2026 Golden State Valkyries season
2026 Golden State Valkyries season: the WNBA team's second year, 32-12, No. 2 seed, top defense (75.1 ppg allowed), swept Dallas, beat Las Vegas, and reached the WNBA Finals against the Atlanta Dream.
2026 IHF Men's Club World Championship
The 2026 IHF Men's Club World Championship was the 19th edition, held in Egypt and won by Hungary's Veszprém HC, who beat defending champions FC Barcelona 42:33.
2026 Indiana Fever season
2026 Indiana Fever season: WNBA team's 44-game campaign, opened May 9 vs Dallas Wings, finished 28-16 as No. 6 seed, lost first round 2-1 to Las Vegas Aces; set scoring records (96.0 ppg), Kelsey Mitchell scoring record 1,086 points.
2026 Las Vegas Aces season
2026 Las Vegas Aces season: the WNBA franchise's 30th season, defending 2025 champions. Finished 31-13, third in the West; A'ja Wilson won a fifth MVP; swept 3-0 by Golden State in the semifinals.
2026 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship
2026 CAVB Men's African Nations Championship, 25th edition held in Tunis (moved from Kinshasa), 15-25 September 2026. Tunisia beat Cameroon 3-0 for its 12th title, qualifying for LA28; Cameroon and Algeria reached the 2027 World Cup.
2026 Men's European Volleyball Championship qualification
2026 Men's European Volleyball Championship qualification: CEV process filling 24 EuroVolley 2026 Men spots; 12 direct entries plus seven three-team pools won by Denmark, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Switzerland, Greece, Slovakia.
2026 Men's European Volleyball League
2026 Men's CEV Volleyball European League, revamped CEV men's national-team competition (EuroLeagueM), 27 teams, June–July 2026, first direct EuroVolley 2028 qualifier; Finland won, beating the Netherlands in the two-leg final.