The calendar of high-level events on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour is out with eight Elite and seven Challenge stops scheduled from March to August, promising an exciting action-packed season that will bring top-caliber teams and players to 10 countries on four continents, with some new venues, some well-known venues and even some iconic venues included.
Beach Pro Tour
Eight Elite and seven Challenge tournaments coming up in 2026
Beach Pro Tour 2026 season announcement - high-level beach volleyball action to serve off in India on March 4
Published 10:00, 30 Jan 2026
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Beach Pro Tour 2026 Elite schedule
The first three of eight Elite stops on Beach Pro Tour 2026 will take place in beach volleyball mecca Brazil, starting with Joao Pessoa, a venue set to welcome the Tour for the fourth time, after the Elite16 stops in November 2023 and in October 2024, and the Elite event in September 2025. This time, the city at the easternmost tip of South America will host its tournament in March, from 11th to 15th.
Another Brazilian Beach Pro Tour regular, Saquarema, will also welcome the world circuit for the fourth straight year. The 2026 dates are from April 8 to 12. Elite action will then move to the capital Brasilia from April 29 to May 3. Some decade and a half ago, the city hosted several FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour events, and now it will entertain the Beach Pro Tour Elite for the third consecutive year.
Two of Europe’s iconic long-time venues, favorite among players and fans alike, will host the next two Elite stops – Ostrava, Czechia from May 27 to 31, and Gstaad, Switzerland from July 1 to 5. Another legendary beach volleyball city, Rio de Janeiro, will welcome the Beach Pro Tour for yet another Brazilian stop from July 29 to August 2.
The Tour will not skip Hamburg, Germany either - another iconic European venue set to organize a top-level event in 2026, with the exact dates to be determined. Montreal will play host to an Elite event for the third time. North America will celebrate the last Beach Pro Tour Elite stop of the year in the beautiful Canadian city from August 19 to 23.
Beach Pro Tour 2026 Challenge schedule
Bhubaneswar in eastern India is one of the new venues on the Beach Pro Tour that have never hosted a world-level beach volleyball competition before. It will organize the first Challenge stop of the year, from March 4 to 8. Another new venue, Bahia de Banderas in the western Mexican state of Nayarit, will welcome the third Challenge event of the season from March 25 to 29. In between, from March 18 to 22, another Mexican location – Tlaxcala, where it all started in 2022 with the first ever Beach Pro Tour event and where the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships were held – will host a Challenge tournament for the second time.
Well-known venues in Asia will organize the next two Challenge stops in May – Xiamen, China from May 13 to 17, and Nuvali, Philippines from May 20 to 24. Alanya in southern Turkiye has hosted several world-level competitions since the 1990s. Now it is time for its second Challenge event from June 10 to 14. The Tour will return to China for its last Challenge stop of the year. It will be in Shangluo, another new venue for the Tour, but host to the FIVB U19 Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2024, and the dates are July 22 to 26.
Beach Pro Tour 2026 dates and locations – Elite and Challenge
Teams and players to watch
The participation of the world’s top beach volleyball stars on the Beach Pro Tour is set to spark fan fever for the fifth consecutive season not only at the Elite and Challenge stops announced, but also among beach volleyball fans all over the world. Once again, VBTV will give everyone the opportunity to witness all the live action, as the sport’s heavyweights, including Olympic and World Championship medalists, bring out their best to the sand courts of the Tour, challenged by rising young talent looking for their place under the beach volleyball sun.
Among the women’s teams to watch are Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (Duda) of Brazil, world champions Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia, the world’s current top three ranked teams – Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti of Brazil, Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes of Brazil and Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of the United States – as well as USA’s Kelly Cheng & Megan Kraft, Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth and Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson, among many others.
Olympic and world champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, their prodigy compatriots Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson and the world’s number one team Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway will highlight the men’s lineup for Beach Pro Tour 2026, along with the likes of Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany, Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci of Brazil, Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar, or American duos Chaim Schalk & James Shaw, Miles Evans & Chase Budinger and newly formed Taylor Crabb & Andrew Benesh.
FIVB Beach World Series coming up in November
As announced earlier this month, the new FIVB Beach World Series is set to launch in November 2026 and replace the Beach Pro Tour as a premier beach volleyball competition. The series will feature a curated selection of ten of the world’s leading sports and entertainment destinations, each contributing its own identity to a global journey that celebrates beach volleyball as both an elite sport and shared experience.
Follow any changes to the Beach Pro Tour 2026 full list of stops and dates in the calendar.
