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This year’s eighth tournament is set to take place in San Francisco from September 19-21.
Roger Federer is a Laver Cup co-founder (AFP)
The 2026 men’s Laver Cup tennis tournament between Team Europe and Team World will be held at London’s O2 Arena from September 25-27, organisers confirmed on Wednesday.
The city’s O2 Arena was where Roger Federer closed his legendary career during the 2022 Laver Cup.
The 2026 competition will be the ninth iteration of the event that rotates between a European location and one in the rest of the world, but the first time it will return to a previous site (after London hosted the Laver Cup in 2022).
This year’s eighth tournament is set to take place in San Francisco from September 19-21.
“From a commercial and hospitality standpoint, London is one of the great cities of the world. We need big arenas, and there are not that many of those around Europe,” Laver Cup chairman Tony Godsick said in a statement.
“The response from London – from fans, partners, and players – was truly overwhelming.”
“The appetite to see Laver Cup return was impossible to ignore.”
The Laver Cup hosted its first event in 2017 in Prague, and the format is comparable to golf’s Ryder Cup. It pits a team of six European players against a worldwide team over three days of matches.
Team Europe leads the all-time competition 5-2, with the 2025 edition in September at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Yannick Noah (Team Europe) and Andre Agassi (Team World) are captains this year, replacing Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, who led their respective teams since the inaugural event.
The Laver Cup was built on the back of Federer and Rafael Nadal, who have now both hung up their rackets for good, but the event has been sold out since Federer retired, as a new crop of stars has taken center stage.
Federer is a Laver Cup co-founder, as he and Godsick launched TEAM8 together after both left IMG in 2012.
(with agency inputs)
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