With just one month to go until Birmingham hosts the European Athletics Championships (August 10-16 at Alexander Stadium) organisers are encouraging fans and spectators to mark their calendars, get tickets, and check out all the ways they can be involved in the UK’s first staging of the European Athletics Championships – a landmark moment for the West Midlands and for athletics.
This week organisers announced a major ticket release, maximising every available seat for fans in all sessions from 10–16 August – including previously sold-out sessions featuring some of the Championships’ most in-demand events.
With a family of four able to attend the event from just £33, the championships will be one of the most family-friendly major sports event to come to the UK.
Fans from across Europe and beyond will head to the iconic Alexander Stadium from Monday to Sunday, with medal events taking placeevery day, including the women’s 100m final on Monday 10 August.
Pole vault world record holder Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis has become the second athlete ever to have a dedicated children’s ticket named after him at a top-tier athletics event in the UK.
To inspire more young people to experience the Championships, the ‘Mondo Ticket’ priced at just £6.31, matching the height of his current world record jump, was released for session nine (Friday 14 August), when the Swedish superstar competes in his qualifying round, on 27 May.
Groups of nine+ are also being given exclusive groups offer to sessions 1, 3, 5 and 7 – the morning sessions of Monday-Thursday, enabling them to unlock the cheapest way to watch the athletics live.
Child-focussed groups are able to access £5 youth (under 16s) tickets and for every nine purchased, two free adult chaperones are added. Meanwhile, adult, student and mixed-age groups unlock the special price of £5 per ticket when adding nine or more spectators to their order, a price previously only available for juniors.
Fans can view the full timetable online for more session schedules.
For those looking to celebrate a local hero, the temporary North Upper stand, the final bend before the 400m Finish Line, has also been unveiled as the Matthew Hudson-Smith stand for the Championships, playing homage to the Wolverhampton-born Birchfield Harrier.
Organisers hope to fill the stand with local young people, inspired by one of their own as he competes for the 400m continental title, inspiring the next generation.
This week Birmingham 2026's official Ticket Resale platform also opened, giving fans who can no longer attend the Championships a safe and secure way to sell their tickets to other fans on tickets.birmingham26.com.
The Championships offer the chance to see some of Europe’s biggest stars in action, including Mondo Duplantis, Nadia Battocletti, Josh Kerr, Femke Bol, Mattia Furlani, Isaac Nader, Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell, and more.
Not only that, the Marathon and Festival of Race Walks mean that the public can catch the excitement in the city centre with the elite road races taking place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August.
Cherry Alexander, Championship Director for Birmingham 2026, said: “With just one month to go, fans can make their plans to be a part of the UK's first ever staging of a European Athletics Championships, whether buying tickets to see the best in Europe competing in Birmingham, picking a spot to view the elite race walks and marathon events in the city centre, or by signing up to run the mass participation Unity Challenge for their own medal moment.”
The Unity Challenge mass-participation 5k and 1k event will also give the public a chance to pick up their own medal moment during the Championships, sharing the same roads as the elite marathon runners earlier that morning.