Don’t Miss the European Athletics Championships Birmingham 2026

With just two weeks to go until Birmingham hosts the European Athletics Championships (August 10-16 at Alexander Stadium) organisers are encouraging fans and spectators to mark their calendars, get tickets, and check out all the ways they can be involved in the UK’s first staging of the European Athletics Championships – a landmark moment for the UK, the West Midlands, and for athletics.

Additional seats across all sessions have also been made available, maximising every seat for fans in all sessions. With a family of four able to attend the event from just £33, the championships will be one of the most family-friendly major sports event to come to the UK. Fans from across Europe and beyond will head to the iconic Alexander Stadium from Monday to Sunday, with medal events taking place every day, including the women’s 100m final on Monday 10 August.

Pole vault world record holder Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis has become the second athlete ever to have a dedicated children’s ticket named after him at a top-tier athletics event in the UK. To inspire more young people to experience the Championships, the ‘Mondo Ticket’ priced at just £6.31, matching the height of his current world record jump, was released for session nine (Friday 14 August), when the Swedish superstar competes in his qualifying round, on 27 May.

The energy of Alexander Stadium will extend into the city centre, as the European Athletics Championships will stage a Fan Zone at Centenary Square, which will become ’Champions Square’ from 13-16 August. 
Champions Square Fan Zone at Centenary Square will create a vibrant festival atmosphere in the heart of Birmingham, bringing together sport and culture in a celebration of the city’s creativity, energy and community spirit. Open to all and free to attend, it’s the perfect place for families, friends, visitors and local communities to be part of the action. A full timetable for Thursday to Sunday at Champions Square will be available soon on Birmingham26.com.

Groups of nine+ are also being given exclusive groups offer to sessions 1, 3, 5 and 7 – the morning sessions of Monday-Thursday, enabling them to unlock the cheapest way to watch the athletics live. Child-focused groups are able to access £5 youth (under 16s) tickets and for every nine purchased, two free adult chaperones are added. Meanwhile, adult, student and mixed-age groups unlock the special price of £5 per ticket when adding nine or more spectators to their order, a price previously only available for juniors.

Fans can view the full timetable online for more session schedules.

For those looking to celebrate a local hero, the temporary North Upper stand, the final bend before the 400m Finish Line, has also been unveiled as the Matthew Hudson-Smith stand for the Championships, playing homage to the Wolverhampton-born Birchfield Harrier. Organisers hope to fill the stand with local young people, inspired by one of their own as he competes for the 400m continental title.

The Championships offer the chance to see some of Europe’s biggest stars in action, including Mondo Duplantis, Nadia Battocletti, Josh Kerr, Femke Bol, Mattia Furlani, Isaac Nader, Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell, and more. 

Not only that, the Marathon and Festival of Race Walks mean that the public can catch the excitement in the city centre with the elite road races taking place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August.

The Unity Challenge mass-participation 5k and 1k event will also give the public a chance to pick up their own medal moment during the Championships, sharing the same roads as the elite marathon runners earlier that morning.

To book and find out more, visit tickets.birmingham26.com.