Key sporting moments in 2025

It’s another bumper year for brilliant British sport. Admire some incredible ball skills at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in England, take a ringside seat for Liverpool’s World Boxing Championships and watch horses soar over challenging fences at the European Eventing Championships at Blenheim Palace. Don’t miss the usual sporting calendar highlights, either: top-notch tennis at Wimbledon, the roar of the crowd at Royal Ascot and the fast and furious British Grand Prix.

Grab your tickets, or a spot by a screen, and create your own winning memories.

Britain’s best sporting spectacles to see in 2025

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Celebrating a victory at Silverstone Circuit

British Grand Prix

3 – 6 July 2025

Head to the ‘Home of British Motorsport’ at Silverstone in Northamptonshire for an unrivalled weekend of high-octane fun in July. General admission ticket holders get to roam around the Formula 1 circuit, while Grandstand and Enclosure tickets offer allocated seating and giant screens.

Get into the F1 action at Silverstone

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Big group of spectators watching race. Racehorses galloping

Royal Ascot

Royal Ascot takes place at Ascot Racecourse, just outside of Windsor. This world-famous horse-racing event in June heralds the start of the summer social calendar. You are almost guaranteed to spot royalty over the week. Note, there is a strict dress code depending on which of the enclosures you choose to watch the races from. Make sure you don’t forget your hat – you don’t want to be seen without it!

Discover Royal Ascot

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Location: Oxfordshire, England

Sculptured water features and gardens outside a spectacular palace.

FEI European Eventing Championship 2025

Is there a more fitting backdrop to the rather regal sport of eventing than one of Britain’s finest stately homes, Blenheim Palace? Watch Europe’s finest horse and rider pairings put on a show in the dressage round, before they tackle enormous fences with aplomb in the cross-country and showjumping. Bring a picnic!

When? 18 – 21 September 2025

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The Championships, Wimbledon

30 June 2025 – 13 July 2025

Join the thousands of Brits who will be glued to the world’s oldest tennis tournament this summer. A ballot for Wimbledon tickets opens in September through the All England Lawn Tennis Championships, or if you miss out, join ‘The Queue’ on the day for a chance to grab a ticket returned by spectators leaving early.

The Championships, Wimbledon

Major sporting events in 2025

Catch the action of these major events to touch down on British and Northern Irish soil in 2025.

Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025

22 August – 27 September 2025

Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Exeter, London, Manchester, Northampton, Sunderland, York

Get behind your favourite team for the thrilling Women’s Rugby World Cup, coming to stadia across Britain in 2025.The tournament kicks off with England facing USA at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light on 22 August. Got your tickets?

World Boxing Championships

4 – 14 September 2025

M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool

Gloves at the ready, as brilliant boxers descend on Liverpool for the first-ever World Boxing Championships. It’ll mark the first time that the men and women’s boxing competitions will run alongside each other at the same championships – not to miss.

The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush

13 – 20 July 2025

Royal Portrush Golf Club, County Antrim

Returning to the Dunluce Links for a third time, the Open Championship – golf’s original major – promises big names and big shots. Follow along as golfers battle it out to win the Claret Jug.

Must-see women’s sports in Britain in 2025

Here come the girls: scoring, serving and putting their way into the history books. We’re proud to host a summer of top-class sport in 2025, from the Women’s Rugby World Cup to the Women’s Open golf tournament. Whether you’re spectating or getting stuck in, we promise you’ll have a ball.

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Two female cricketers collecting the winning trophy on the cricket pitch.

Women’s Rugby World Cup

22 August – 27 September

For edge-of-your-seat action, don’t miss the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Catch matches at Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Exeter, Manchester, Northampton, Sunderland and York, before the grand final at London’s Twickenham Stadium.

Women’s WTA 500

9 – 15 June 2025

Women’s WTA 500 tennis returns to London’s Queen’s Club for the first time in 50 years during the HSBC Championships. Look out for Britain’s Katie Boulter making her Championships debut.

Women’s FA Cup Final

18 May 2025

The mighty Wembley Stadium in London hosts some of our finest footballers in a high-octane shoot out for the FA Cup. The atmosphere will be electric – cheer on your favourite team until you’re hoarse.

AIG Women’s Open

30 July – 3 August 2025

In Wales for the first time, the AIG Women’s Open will see the world’s best golfers make their mark on the links at Royal Porthcawl. The course offers top-notch views of the surrounding countryside – you can even see over to Dartmoor and Exmoor on a fine day.

FEI European Eventing Championship

18 – 21 September 2025

The European Eventing Championship combines the grace of dressage, the precision of showjumping and the thrills of cross-country, all at the spectacular setting of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. See Europe’s top riders ride to the limit to lift the trophy.

Women’s T20 International

4 July 2025

England Women take on India in this much-awaited fixture, at London’s Kia Oval, against the world’s third-ranked team. On 27 July at the Oval, there’s also the Women’s T20 Blast Women’s Finals Day.

London Athletics Meet

19 July 2025

Hurdles, discus, high jump, pole vault… Whatever you’re interested in, the London Athletics Meet has it. Held at the London Stadium, this is the world’s biggest one-day athletics meet and promises a showstopping day out.

The Hundred

5 – 31 August 2025

Cricket’s never been more thrilling than The Hundred, which sees eight women’s and men’s teams from seven different British cities battle it out across venues in England and Wales this summer. The challenge? To score as many runs as possible from 100 balls.