The biggest sporting events of 2027 are led by the Super Bowl in California on 14 February and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil from 24 June to 25 July, with Wimbledon (28 June–11 July), a 24-race Formula 1 season and the Rugby World Cup in Australia completing a year with no quiet months. This list ranks the ten events that will define the sporting year — by global audience, stakes and how much they reward the fans who attend in person — in calendar order, with confirmed dates and an honest note on how hard each is to get into.

Unlike most years, 2027 has no Olympics and no men’s football World Cup. What it has instead is depth: two world cups in women’s sport’s biggest properties, a full F1 calendar and the Southern Hemisphere’s turn at rugby’s biggest prize.

The Top 10, in Date Order

Costs are typical recent-edition estimates to help you budget and compare — not confirmed 2027 prices. Confirm the real figure on each event’s official site before you plan around it.

Where dates are marked pattern/TBC, organisers had not published final 2027 dates at the time of writing; confirmed dates are stated plainly. Always confirm on the official event site before booking travel.

The Two Giants

Super Bowl LXI (14 February, SoFi Stadium, Inglewood).

The largest single-day sporting event on Earth by television audience and price. Ordinary fans do not buy ordinary tickets — most inventory moves through official hospitality packages — which is why our Super Bowl 2027 guide and its cost breakdown companion focus on realistic routes in and what the trip actually costs.

FIFA Women’s World Cup (24 June–25 July, Brazil; final at the Maracanã).

The tournament that has outgrown every prediction: 32 teams, a football-mad host nation and phased ticket sales that reward early registration. Our full Women’s World Cup 2027 guide covers the sales phases and host cities. It overlaps Wimbledon almost exactly — sports fans must choose, or do one on TV and one in person.

The Classics and the Wildcard

Wimbledon (28 June–11 July) remains the most charming hard ticket in sport: the public ballot for 2027 closed in September 2026, leaving the famous Queue — camping in Wimbledon Park for on-the-day tickets — as the great democratic route in, explained in our Wimbledon guide. The Masters (Augusta, April; dates by pattern) is the opposite: a badge lottery most applicants never win, and a reminder that scarcity is part of some events’ design. The Tour de France (July) is the glorious exception — the world’s biggest annual sporting event by roadside attendance costs nothing to watch; your budget is French trains, hotels and mountainside patience. The Rugby World Cup (Australia, from 1 October; final in Sydney in mid-November, following the published tournament pattern — confirm exact dates on the official site) is 2027’s late-year giant, with demand driven by travelling British, Irish, French and New Zealand support. And the Formula 1 season is a top-ten event in instalments: 24 races, ten Sprints, from Bahrain in March to Abu Dhabi in December — see our complete F1 2027 calendar.

The Six Nations (February–March) is the most attendable giant on this list: six countries, fifteen matches, and tickets sold through the national unions at face values that — commonly around £50–£150 for the biggest fixtures in recent years (estimate) — look almost old-fashioned next to everything else here. The hard part is allocation, not price: home-union members and clubs get priority, so register with the relevant union early and treat the tournament’s away weekends (Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Paris, Rome, London) as city breaks that happen to contain a match.

The UEFA Champions League Final (5 June, Madrid) is Europe’s biggest club match and the one absence from earlier versions of this list that readers kept naming. The 2027 final returns to the Estadio Metropolitano — Atlético Madrid’s home, which hosted the 2019 final — on a confirmed date, Saturday 5 June 2027. Tickets are allocated mainly to the two finalists’ supporters and a public ballot run by UEFA; recent finals priced face-value categories from about €70 to €950 (estimate for 2027 until UEFA publishes). If your club reaches Madrid, the ballot and your club’s allocation are the only sane routes in — see the buying-safely section below before touching anything else.

And a word more on the Tour de France (July), because “free” undersells the planning: the race covers roughly 3,500 km over three weeks, and the mountain stages in the Alps and Pyrenees are where roadside spectating becomes a folk festival of its own — fans camp on hairpins days ahead, the publicity caravan throws its hour-long parade before the riders, and the whole show passes in minutes. Pick two or three stages rather than chasing the race, base yourself in one mountain town, and let the Tour come to you.

How to Actually Attend One of These

The pattern is identical across all ten: the earlier organised fan wins. Register for ballots and presales the moment they open (Wimbledon and the Women’s World Cup reward exactly this), book refundable accommodation before prices react to fixtures, and treat hospitality packages as the honest price of certainty for events like the Super Bowl rather than a rip-off. Our step-by-step event trip planner sequences the whole process.

Buying Safely: Tickets Without the Scam

Every event on this list attracts ticket fraud, because scarcity is a scammer’s business model. Four habits protect you across all ten:

Official channels first, always. Ballots, lotteries and phased sales — the Wimbledon ballot, UEFA’s final ballot, the Women’s World Cup’s phased sales, the Masters lottery — feel slow, but they are the only routes where the ticket is guaranteed real at a published price. Register for all of them the day they open; patience inside the official system beats speed outside it.

Treat hospitality as the legitimate certainty route. For the Super Bowl and the Champions League final, official hospitality packages are not a rip-off tier — they are how most genuine premium inventory is sold, at published prices, with the ticket guaranteed. Compare the package price against resale honestly: once fees and risk are counted, the gap is often smaller than it looks.

Read resale like a sceptic. If you do use resale, use established platforms with a ticket guarantee, pay by card (never bank transfer or gift cards), and treat prices far below every other listing as the warning they are. Our guide to buying tickets safely online walks through the checks in order.

Time it by the event, not by hope. Balloted and hospitality-led events reward the earliest organised fan; resale-friendly events often soften late. Our guide to the best time to buy event tickets shows which pattern your event follows before you spend anything.

Why 2027 Belongs to Women’s Sport

The year’s defining feature deserves its own note. The FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil is not a warm-up act for anything — after the record-breaking 2023 edition in Australia and New Zealand, it arrives as one of the two or three biggest events on the planet in its own right, in the most football-romantic host nation available. Around it, the women’s sporting calendar has genuine depth for travelling fans: the Women’s Ashes and the ICC women’s calendar in cricket, a Women’s Rugby World Cup cycle building towards its next edition, and women’s tennis headlining the same Wimbledon fortnight as the men. If you plan one sports trip in 2027 specifically to be present at a growth moment in sport — the kind people describe decades later as “I was there when it changed” — Brazil in June and July is the strongest answer this list can give you. Register for its ticket phases now; the 2023 tournament’s lesson was that quarter-finals onwards sell like a men’s World Cup.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the biggest sporting event in 2027?

By television audience, the Super Bowl; by month-long global reach, the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. The Rugby World Cup in Australia is the year’s biggest tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.

Which 2027 sporting event is easiest to attend?

The Tour de France — roadside viewing is free and needs no ticket at all. Among ticketed events, Women’s World Cup group matches and many Formula 1 rounds are realistically buyable with early registration.

Which is the hardest ticket of 2027?

The Masters badge lottery and Super Bowl face-value tickets are the two hardest legitimate routes in; Glastonbury-style sellouts aside, in sport these two define scarcity. Wimbledon sits between: the ballot is luck, but the Queue rewards effort.

When should I start planning for the Rugby World Cup 2027?

Now. Tournament travel to Australia books up in waves tied to ticket phases and team draws; register with the official tournament channels and hold refundable long-haul flights early. Confirm exact match dates on the official site as they are published.

Is there an Olympics in 2027?

No — the next Summer Olympics is Los Angeles 2028 (14–30 July 2028). 2027 is a world-cup year instead. Our early LA Olympics 2028 guide explains the ticket draw system already under way.

How much does it cost to attend a top sporting event in 2027?

It spans the widest range in travel: the Tour de France costs nothing to watch beyond getting yourself to a French roadside, and a Women’s Ashes or Six Nations ticket can cost less than a good dinner — while a Super Bowl trip is a several-thousand-dollar commitment before you have eaten anything. As a budgeting rule, the ticket is rarely the whole story: for the ticketed giants, expect travel and host-city accommodation during the event window to match or exceed the ticket itself, which is why every estimate in our table above says “confirm before you plan around it.” For the full worked example, our Super Bowl cost breakdown prices the biggest event on this list line by line — flight, hotel, ticket and food.

Conclusion

2027 asks sports fans to choose their peak: California in February, Brazil in June and July, London’s grass, or Australia in the spring. Choose one, register for everything today, and let the calendar work for you. Start with our guides to the Super Bowl, the Women’s World Cup and Wimbledon, and browse the full year in our Sports category.