Another super busy and exciting year of athletics awaits! Here are some of the key dates for your athletics diaries in 2025.
2 February - European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country, Albufeira (POR)
The calendar of major events begins with the ECCC Cross Country, an event which was held for the first time in 1962 and predates both the European Cross Country Championships and World Cross Country Championships.
Spanish club Playas de Castellon dominated the 2024 ECCC Cross Country with Spain’s Thierry Ndikumwenayo and Ethiopia’s Likina Amebaw - who is in the process of obtaining Spanish citizenship - winning the individual titles for the Spanish team.
6-9 March - European Athletics Indoor Championships, Apeldoorn (NED)
The biennial championships returns to Dutch soil for the first time since 1989 with this year’s edition taking place in the Omnisport Apeldoorn where Femke Bol ran world indoor 400m records in 2023 and 2024.
Bol was one of the stars of the last edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul where she successfully defended her 400m and 4x400m titles. Will she add to her title haul this year?
Among those to confirm that Apeldoorn features in their schedule are Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou who are aiming for their third and fourth successive titles in the high jump and long jump respectively.
15-16 March - European Throwing Cup, Nicosia (CYP)
The next three editions of the European Throwing Cup will be held in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia where warm and sunny conditions are expected to greet the throwers.
For many throwers, the European Throwing Cup represents their first international competition of the season and a good opportunity to secure ranking points and qualifying marks for the upcoming championships.
12-13 April - European Running Championships, Brussels-Leuven (BEL)
The newest major event on the European Athletics calendar is the European Running Championships which makes its debut in Brussels-Leuven on the second weekend of April.
The two-day running festival consists of a 10km, half marathon and marathon - all of which are open to the masses as well. Top European runners such as Jimmy Gressier, Etienne Daguinos, Yann Schrub and Nadia Battocletti have all expressed their interest in competing in the inaugural edition in April.
18 May - European Race Walking Team Championships, Podebrady (CZE)
The Czech spa town of Podebrady will stage the European Race Walking Team Championships for the third edition in a row this May.
The last edition in 2023 was highlighted by Spain’s Maria Perez, who went on to win double gold at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, setting a world record of 2:37:15 in the 35km race walk.
Spain also topped the medal table in Podebrady two years ago with six gold medals in total ahead of Italy with five.
24 May - European 10,000m Cup, Pacé (FRA)
Having been incorporated into the European Athletics Championships last year, the European 10,000m Cup returns as a standalone event for the first time since 2023 with Pacé staging the competition for the third time.
At the 2023 European 10,000m Cup, Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa and Alina Reh from Germany won the individual titles with team honours going to Israel and Germany respectively.
24-29 June - European Athletics Team Championships 2nd and 3rd Divisions, Maribor (SLO)
After missing out on promotion by an agonising half-a-point in 2023, can hosts Slovenia gain promotion into the 1st Division of the European Athletics Team Championships for the first time in history this year?
The Slovenian city of Maribor will be hosting both the 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the European Athletics Team Championships this year in the recently renovated Poljane Athletics Stadium.
27-29 June - European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division, Madrid (ESP)
Italy dominated the last edition of the European Athletics Team Championships which was held in Silesia as part of the 2023 European Games. Will the Italians win back-to-back team titles in Madrid this June?
Hosts Spain finished a creditable fourth two years ago in Silesia, taking four individual victories across the programme.
17-20 July - European Athletics U23 Championships, Bergen (NOR)
Four years after coronavirus forced the event to be moved, Bergen will be staging this year’s European Athletics U23 Championships which is open to athletes born between 2003-2005.
One of the big local hopes at these championships will be Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen who won an unexpected gold in the 3000m at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima last summer.
Other top names who are eligible to compete include Serbians Adriana Vilagos and Angelina Topic - both of whom have already won two medals at the European Athletics Championships - and Italy’s Olympic long jump bronze medallist Mattia Furlani who has also won European titles at U18 and U20 level.
7-10 August - European Athletics U20 Championships, Tampere (FIN)
Europe’s outstanding teenage talents will compete for medals in Tampere this summer.
Just some of the names to watch include reigning world U20 champions Jana Koscak (heptathlon), Meta Tumba (400m hurdles) and Tom Tersek (javelin) as well as Great Britain’s Phoebe Gill who smashed the European U18 800m best last year with 1:57.86.
And 15-year-old British sprinter Divine Iheme - who ran a world age-14 100m best of 10.30 last summer - could also make his major championships debut in the Tampere Stadium.
14 December - SPAR European Cross Country Championships, Lagoa (POR)
The major events calendar concludes once more with the SPAR European Cross Country Championships which moves to Lagoa in the south of Portugal this December.
At the last edition in Antalya, Nadia Battocletti and Jakob Ingebrigtsen ruled triumphant in the senior races as Great Britain topped the medal table for the fifth edition of the European Cross Country Championships in succession.