If Qatar closed last year, this year the world cups for women’s soccer, basketball, judo, swimming, badminton and handball, among others, will take over.
MOTOR Dakar Rally (December 31 to January 15 | Saudi Arabia).
SOCCER Spanish Super Cup (11 to 15 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
HANDBALL Men’s World Championship (11 to 29 | Poland and Sweden).
SAILING Start of the regatta ‘The Ocean Race’ (15 | Alicante).
TENNIS Australian Open (16 to 29 | Melbourne).
February
FOOTBALL Club World Cup (1 to 11 | Morocco).
FÚTBOL AMERICANO LVII Super Bowl (12 | Glendale, EE.UU.).
BASKETBALL King’s Basketball Cup (16 to 19 | Badalona).
BASKETBALL All Star Game of the NBA (17 to 19 | Utah, United States).
Athletics Cross World Championship (18 | Bathurst, Australia).
Athletics World Indoor Tour (22 | Madrid).
SNOWBOARD World Championship (March 19 to 5 | Bakuriani, Georgia).
March
ATHLETICS European indoor track (2 to 5 | Istanbul, Turkey).
CYCLING Paris-Nice (5 to 12 | France).
FORMULA 1 First World Cup Grand Prix (5 | Bahrain).
GOLF The Players (7 al 12 | Ponte Vedra Beach, EE.UU.).
FOOTBALL European women’s FOOTBALL (16 to 19 | Debrecen, Hungary).
CYCLING Milan-San Remo (18 | Italy).
ATHLETICS Barcelona Marathon (19 | Barcelona).
MOTOGP First Grand Prix of the World Championship (26 | Algarve, Portugal).
April
CYCLING Tour of Flanders (2 | Belgium).
GOLF Masters of Augusta (6 to 9 | Georgia, USA).
CYCLING Paris-Roubaix (9 | France). Liège-Bastogne-Liège (23 | Belgium).
TENNIS Conde de Godó (15 to 23 | Barcelona).
GYMNASTICS European Artistic Gymnastics (19 to 23 | Antalya, Turkey).
ATHLETICS Madrid Marathon (23 | Madrid).
TENNIS Mutua Madrid Open (15 al 26 | Madrid).
Mayo
FOOTBALL Final of the Copa del Rey (6 | Seville).
CYCLING Giro de Italia (6th to 28th | Italy).
World JUDO (7 to 13 | Doha, Qatar).
GOLF LPGA Championship (18 to 21 | New York, USA).
BASKETBALL Final Four of the Euroleague (19 to 21 | Kaunas, Lithuania).
FOOTBALL U-20 World Cup (20 to 11 | Indonesia).
TENNIS Roland Garros (June 28 to 11 | Paris).
FOOTBALL Europa League Final (31 | Budapest, Hungary).
June
BASKETBALL NBA Finals (Date and venues to be confirmed).
FOOTBALL Women’s Champions League Final (3-4 | Eindhoven, Netherlands).
FORMULA 1 Spanish Grand Prix (4 | Barcelona).
FOOTBALL Champions League Final (10 | Istanbul, Turkey).
MOTOR 24 hours of Le Mans (10 and 11 | France).
GOLF US Open (15 to 18 | La Jolla, USA).
European Women’s BASKETBALL (15 to 25 | Slovenia and Israel).
European Under-21 SOCCER (July 21 to 8 | Georgia and Romania).
Julio
CYCLING Tour de France (1 to 23 | France).
TENNIS Wimbledon (3 to 16 | London, England).
SWIMMING World Championship (14 to 30 | Fukuoka, Japan).
GOLF British Open (16 to 23 | Hoylake, Great Britain).
FOOTBALL Women’s World Cup (August 20-20 | Australia and New Zealand).
FENCING World Championship (22 to 30 | Milan, Italy).
CYCLING Women’s Tour de France (23 to 30 | France).
August
FOOTBALL European Super Cup (Date and venue to be determined).
CYCLING World Championships (3 to 13 | Glasgow).
World ATHLETICS (19 to 27 | Budapest, Hungary).
BADMINTON World Championship (23 to 27 | Copenhagen).
Rhythmic World Gymnastics (23 to 27 | Valencia).
BASKETBALL Men’s World Cup (September 25 to 10 | Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines).
CYCLING Tour of Spain (September 26 to 17 | Spain).
TENNIS US Open (from September 28 to 10 | New York).
September
MOTOGP Grand Prix of Catalonia (3 | Barcelona).
ROWING World Championships (3 to 10 | Belgrade, Serbia).
RUGBY Men’s World Cup (8 to 28 | France).
CANOEING World Championships (19 to 24 | Lee Valley, England).
TENNIS Laver Cup (22 to 24 | Vancouver, Canada).
GOLF Ryder Cup (October 28-1 | Rome, Italy).
GYMNASTICS World Artistic Championships (October 29 to 8 | Antwerp, Belgium).
October
BEACH VOLLEYBALL Men’s and women’s world championship (6 to 15 | Tlaxcala, Mexico).
CYCLING Tour of Lombardy (7 | Italy).
GYMNASTICS European Acrobatic Championship (18 to 22 | Varna, Bulgaria).
November
JUDO European Championships (2 to 5 | Montpellier, France).
TENNIS ATP Finals-Masters Cup (12 to 19 | Turin, Italy).
TENNIS Davis Cup Finals (21 to 26 | Málaga).
HANDBALL Women’s World Cup (December 30 to 17 | Denmark, Norway and Sweden).
December
ATHLETICS Valencia Marathon (1 | Valencia).
ATHLETICS San Silvestre Vallecana (31 | Madrid).