January 30, 2026.- Volleyball World has today announced the official schedule for the 2026 Beach Pro Tour, confirming a global calendar of Elite and Challenge events running from March to August across four continents. The 2026 season will bring world-class beach volleyball to both iconic destinations and emerging markets, reinforcing the sport’s growing global reach.
The Beach Pro Tour is the world’s premier international beach volleyball circuit, featuring a season-long series of Elite and Challenge events contested by the sport’s best athletes. Backed by an additional USD 100,000 FIVB investment per tournament, the Tour has expanded Main Draw sizes to up to 24 teams per gender at Elite events and 32 teams per gender at Challenge events. The expanded fields have driven increased prize money, now USD 400,000 at Elite events and USD 250,000 at Challenge events, while continuing to guarantee equal prize money for men and women, reinforcing Volleyball World and FIVB’s commitment to gender equality.
The tour will kick off in March in Bhubaneswar, India, before moving to João Pessoa, Brazil for the first Elite event of the season. Mexico will host back-to-back Challenge tournaments in Tlaxcala and Nayarit, followed by a strong Elite Brazilian leg with Saquarema alongside Brasília. Asia will also welcome back Challenge events in Xiamen, China and Nuvali in the Philippines, before the tour returns to Europe for events in Ostrava, Alanya and the iconic Gstaad, marking the 26th year of beach pro volleyball in the Swiss mountains.
The latter part of the season will see Challenge competition continue in Shangluo, and Elite competitions in Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, and Montreal, Canada.
The 2026 Beach Pro Tour will feature many of the sport’s leading athletes, including the reigning FIVB Beach Volleyball World Champions, as the Tour builds on a 2025 season that welcomed more than 200,000 fans across Beach Pro Tour events.
Among the women’s teams to watch are Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (Duda) of Brazil and World Champions Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia. Also competing are 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 USA. In addition, Switzerland’s sister duo Anouk Vergé-Dépré and Zoé Vergé-Dépré, Germany’s Svenja Müller and Cinja Tillmann, Italy’s Valentina Gottardi and Reka Orsi Toth, and Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson will all be competing for titles.
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. Germany’s Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickle, Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci of Brazil, Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar, and the newly paired Taylor Crabb & Andrew Benesh will be taking part across the calendar of events.
The vast majority of Elite events in 2026 will feature draws of up to 24 teams, while Challenge tournaments will include 32 teams, providing a competitive pathway for established stars and rising talent to set new records.
In November 2026, the new FIVB Beach World Series will replace the Beach Pro Tour as the 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. More details will be shared in the coming months.
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