Major Sports Events of the World
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Welcome to our comprehensive guide to the world's major sporting tournaments! In this page we look into different multisport and single sport tournaments held across the world. Get to know when and where the sports events were first held. Also get an insight into the venues and years of sports tournaments last held and finally when and where they are next scheduled. The page is divided into several sections with the first one dealing with multisport events like the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games etc. followed by single sport tournaments like cricket, football, hockey etc.
Table of Contents
Multisport Events
| Games | First held (Year & Host) | Last held (Year & Host) |
Next at (Year & Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 1896 Athens Greece |
2020 Tokyo Japan |
2024 Paris France |
| Winter Olympics | 1924 Chamonix France |
2022 Beijing China |
2026 Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy |
| Youth Olympic Games (Summer) | 2010 Singapore Singapore |
2018 Buenos Aires Argentina |
2026 Dakar Senegal |
| Youth Olympic Games (Winter) | 2012 Innsbruck Austria |
2020 Lausanne Switzerland |
2024 Gangwon South Korea |
| Commonwealth Games | 1930 Hamilton Canada |
2022 Birmingham United Kingdom |
2026 Victoria Australia |
| Asian Games | 1951 New Delhi India |
2022 Hangzhou China (Postponed to 2023) |
2026 Nagoya Japan |
| South Asian Games | 1984 Kathmandu (Nepal) |
2019 Kathmandu (Nepal) |
2024 Lahore (Pakistan) |
| World Masters Games | 1985 Toronto (Canada) |
2017 Auckland (New Zealand) |
2021* Kansai (Japan) |
| World Championship in Athletics | 1983 Helsinki, Finland |
2023 Budapest, Hungary |
2025 Tokyo, Japan |
| Asian Athletics Championship | 1973 Marikina, Philippines |
2023 Pattaya, Thailand |
2025 Gumi, South Korea |
| The World Games | 1981 Santa Clara, United States |
2022 Birmingham, United States |
2025 Chengdu, China |
*World Masters Games rescheduled to be held in May 2022 have again been postponed and the exact date has not been announced.
2021 Asian Athletics Championship scheduled in Hangzhou were cancelled due to Covid.
Cricket Tournaments
| Games | First held (Year & Host) | Last held (Year & Host) |
Next at (Year & Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICC Men's World Cup | 1975 England |
2023 India |
2027 South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe |
| ICC Women's World Cup | 1973 England |
2022 New Zealand |
2026 Not decided |
| ICC Champions Trophy | 1998 Bangladesh |
2017 England and Wales |
2025 Pakistan |
| ICC Men's T20 World Cup | 2007 South Africa |
2022 Australia |
2024 West Indies & USA |
| ICC Women's T20 World Cup | 2009 England |
2023 South Africa |
2024 Bangladesh |
Football Tournaments
| Games | First held (Year & Host) | Last held (Year & Host) |
Next at (Year & Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Football World Cup (Men's) | 1930 Uruguay |
2022 Qatar |
2026 Canada, Mexico & USA |
| Football World Cup (Women's) | 1991 China |
2019 France |
2023 Australia and New Zealand |
| UEFA European Football Championship (Euro Cup) | 1960 France |
2020 13 cities of Europe |
2024 Germany |
| CONMEBOL Copa America | 1916 Argentina |
2021 Brazil |
2024 United States |
Hockey Tournaments
| Games | First held (Year & Host) | Last held (Year & Host) |
Next at (Year & Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's World Cup | 1971 Barcelona, Spain |
2023 Bhubaneshwar & Rourkela, India |
2026 Wavre, Belgium and Amstelveen, Netherlands |
| Women's Hockey World | 1974 Mandelieu, France |
2022 Terrassa, Spain & Amstelveen, Netherland |
2026 Wavre, Belgium and Amstelveen, Netherlands |
| Men's Asian Champions Trophy | 2011 Ordos, China |
2023 Chennai, India |
2024 Hulunbuir, China |
| Women's Asian Champions Trophy | 2010 Busan, South Korea |
2021 Dhongae, South Korea |
2023 Ranchi, India |
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3. Which country hosted the first Asian Games?
4. In which year were the first Winter Olympic Games first held?
5. Which country hosted the first Men's Football World Cup?
6. ICC Women's World Cup was first held in which year?
7. In which year was the first Copa America tournament held?
8. In which year was the first ICC Men's T20 World Cup held?
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