With 2022 over and the euphoria created by the World Cup in Qatar, it is time to analyze what will be the big agenda for 2023. And to the surprise of many, it is a year that offers a large number of international events. Many of these will serve as a prelude to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Sports news presents each of these events in detail. It is worth noting that on this occasion the tournaments held every year are not mentioned, such as the Formula 1 World Cup, the Davis Cup, the Super Bowl, for example.
men’s handball | Men’s Hockey | Baseball | Soccer Sub 20 | Swimming | women’s football | Athletics | Basketball | Rugby | Beach volleyball | women’s handball
Men’s Handball/Handball
The 2023 Handball World Cup will be held in Poland and Sweden. Katowice, Plock, Krakow, Gdansk, Silesia, Malopolska and Mazowsze will host the Cup in Poland, while Stockholm, Malmö, Gothenburg, Kristianstad and Jönköping will be in Sweden. The tournament will start on Wednesday, January 11 and will end on Sunday, January 29, when the final will take place.
There are 32 teams, including Spain, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and the United States. The defending champions are Denmark, who were founded in Egypt in 2021 (they retained the crown they achieved in 2019).
- Date: 11 to 29 January.
- Campus: Poland-Sweden.
men’s hockey
After a 2022 that saw women’s hockey action (the Netherlands became champions by defeating Argentina in the final), it’s time for the men’s hockey World Cup. The tournament will be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, India. Kick-off will be on Friday 13th January, while the tip-off will be played on Sunday 29th January.
There are 16 selected rankings among which Argentina, Chile and Spain stand out. The defending champion is Belgium: they beat the Netherlands in the main game. The red devils they also took the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
- Date: 13 to 29 January.
- Campus: India.
Baseball
The World Baseball Classic, an international competition born in 2006 featuring Major League players, is the pinnacle event of the sport and this 2023 will see its fifth edition. The final will be held in Miami on March 21. before being played in Taiwan and Japan. The United States will look to retain the crown they won in 2017 in Los Angeles. It is worth noting that the event was agreed for 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twenty teams participate in this tournament, among which stand out: Panama, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
- Date: March 8 to 21.
- Campus: United States, Japan and Taiwan
Under 20 football
Many of the big names in world football have made a big step into the coaching departments, so the Under-20 World Cup in Indonesia will be a great showcase to see who can reign supreme in the coming years. We will have to wait, more on the date (the tournament starts on May 20), which players will be released by their respective clubs.
The classifications of some regions have yet to be determined, but Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and the United States have already been guaranteed their place by CONCACAF.
- Date: May 20 to June 11.
- Campus: Indonesia
Swimming
After Budapest 2022 (it should have been 2021) comes Fukuoka 2023: Japan will host the most important event of the year before the big goal, the Paris 2024 Olympics. At this World Cup, representatives from all over the world are expected people .
Swimming, artistic swimming, diving, open sea swimming and water polo competitions will be held.
- Date: 14 to 30 July.
- Campus: Japan
Women’s Football
Qatar 2022 was the big event for men’s football, and 2023 will be the moment for women’s football: from July 20 to August 20, Australia and New Zealand will vibrate with the best of the sport. Can the United States repeat what happened in France in 2019 and thus capture their fifth title after the 1991, 1999 and 2015 cups?
32 teams will participate in the tournament, of which 29 have already been designated from 2022. Among others, the presence of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Spain stand out.
- Date: July 20 to August 20
- Campus: Australia-New Zealand
Sport
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, will host the World Athletics Championships, which for the first time will have competition in consecutive years: Eugene 2022 was scheduled for 2021 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will take place from August 19 to 27.
It is expected to see the best figures in the world get in shape for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the big goal of the athletes.
- Date: August 19 to 27
- Campus: Hungary
Basketball/Basketball
It will be difficult for Spain to erase what happened in China in 2019, but it is time for the team to focus on winning the basketball throne. The challenge will be the World Cup which will be held in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan from August 25th to September 10th. Argentina, for their part, arrive with expectations of getting close to last runner-up (they have yet to qualify).
Of the 32 places, there are some available and many countries are at stake. For the Americas, only Canada has qualified, while in Europe powers such as Germany, Slovenia, France and Greece, among others, have already secured their place.
- Date: August 25 to September 10
- Campus: Philippines, Japan and Indonesia
Rugby
France, for the fourth time in its history, will host a World Cup: it was the main venue in 2007, having hosted matches in 1991 and 1999. The Gauls face the tournament with the hope of lifting the trophy for the first time and thus grabbing the crown in South Africa, the defending champion. For their part, the New Zealand All Blacks want their fourth cup to stay on top of the winners.
20 teams are participating and it will be played from September 8: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are the representatives of America. Spain, due to poor inclusion, was left out beyond the fact that on the field it had secured its ticket.
- Date: September 8 to October 28
- Campus: France
beach volleyball
As in swimming and athletics, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended plans for the Beach Volleyball World Cup, which will see action in 2023 as well as in 2022. In Tlaxcala, Mexico, from October 6 to 15, the action of men and women.
It is worth highlighting the winners in Rome 2022: the Norwegians Anders Mol-Christian Sørum in the men’s category and the Brazilians Eduarda Santos Lisboa-Ana Patrícia Ramos among the ladies.
- Date: October 6 to 15
- Campus: Mexico
Women’s Handball/Handball
2023 opens with men’s handball and will close with the women’s World Cup. Denmark, Norway and Sweden will take the activity from November 30 to December 17 to find the one who can dethrone the Norwegians, who held the 2021 edition played in Spain. France and Denmark had completed the podium.
The South American teams will be Argentina and Brazil, while Spain will follow their place in the qualifying rounds.
- Date: November 30 to December 17
- Campus: Denmark-Norway-Sweden
