European Athletics is pleased to announce that the media accreditation process for the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships from 10-16 August is now open.
As a first step, media representatives interested in attending and reporting on Birmingham 2026 need to contact their National Federation to express their interest.
National Federations are responsible for informing and nominating media representatives.
Each National Federation will then nominate media representatives in the system.
After the nomination procedure is completed, journalists and photographers will receive a registration link to finalise their accreditation process.
For any additional information, please contact your respective National Federation.
Representatives of the international press agencies (Getty Images, Reuters, AP, EPA, AFP) and representatives of other international media please contact directly European Athletics at media@european-athletics.org to obtain more information about the registration process.
Further information will be sent to rights-holders broadcasters.
European Athletics and our Broadcast Partner EBU have designed a Virtual Media Centre – a browser-based platform – to allow all journalists and member federations to watch the live action (integrated and isolated feeds of the event coverage), ability to view, join and conduct mixed zone interviews, plus download and publish content from the mixed zone.
Media representatives who are unable to travel to Birmingham are invited to apply for remote media and the link will be published on European Athletics website at a later stage.
Key dates:
- Registration opening date: 10 April 2026
- Registration closing date for accreditation: 15 June 2026
- Registration closing date with accommodation: 1 July 2026