The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is pleased to officially confirm Glasgow as the host city of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The 23rd edition of the Commonwealth Games will take place in Scotland from Thursday 23 July to Sunday 2 August 2026, returning to the city 12 years after the hugely successful 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow 2026 will feature a 10-sport programme concentrated across four venues within an eight-mile corridor, ensuring an action-packed broadcast schedule across each day of competition and making the event accessible and appealing to spectators.
Track and field athletics and Para athletics are in the programme and will be staged at Scotstoun.
With over 500,000 tickets to be made available at a future date, there will be around 3000 of the best athletes competing from up to 74 Commonwealth nations and territories that represent 2.5 billion people – one-third of the world’s population.
Para sport will once again be fully integrated as a key priority and point of difference for the Games, with six Para sports included on the sport programme.
The sports programme will include Athletics and Para Athletics (Track & Field), Swimming and Para Swimming, Artistic Gymnastics, Track Cycling and Para Track
Cycling, Netball, Weightlifting and Para Powerlifting, Boxing, Judo, Bowls and Para Bowls, and 3×3 Basketball and 3×3 Wheelchair Basketball.
The Games will take place across four venues: Scotstoun Stadium, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Emirates Arena – including the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, and the Scottish Event Campus (SEC). Athletes and support staff will be housed in hotel accommodation.
The Glasgow 2026 Games will deliver over £100 million of inward investment into the city and is projected to support over £150 million of economic value added for the
region, with a model that has been specially designed to not require public funding for the delivery of the Games. An additional multi-million-pound investment has also
been secured for upgrading public sporting facilities, alongside funding for city activation projects across the city.
Commonwealth Games Scotland Chief Executive Jon Doig OBE, said ‘We’re absolutely delighted to have secured Glasgow as hosts of the 2026 Commonwealth
Games. When we started pulling this concept together just under a year ago, our focus was on creating a Games that was different – that could be delivered to…
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