EventGavel

Scope and Research Basis

This EventGavel page treats kubb as a global participant event rather than a spectator-only sport. The strongest 2026 public calendar source is Kubb.World, which lists more than one hundred tournaments from April through December and gives a concise country-by-country spread across Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Sweden, Austria, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and other active kubb communities. HappyKubb is especially useful for European club events, including Belgian federation-linked tournaments, German ranking and festival tournaments, Czech national and regional tournaments, and Swiss club cups. DKubbB is used for German ranking and championship confirmation, while USA Kubb and Kubb On help anchor the U.S. season. Where sources disagree on title wording, the table uses a readable English-facing title and preserves the country and date most consistently reported.

The list intentionally excludes junior-only events, including Kid Kubb, because this page is intended for adult, open, mixed, and senior competitive planning. Kubb normally does not divide every tournament into men's and women's calendars. Most listed fixtures are open, mixed, team-size-based, singles, pairs, or national-format competitions. The clearest explicitly gendered 2026 item found in the public calendar is the Czech women's championship, MCR zen, which is included. The Potsdamer Mixed Masters and World Mixed Masters are also included because they are adult mixed-format events rather than youth competitions.

Unlike sports with a single professional league, kubb does not have one worldwide professional season with a standard regular season and playoff bracket. The competitive year is instead a distributed tournament circuit. That circuit builds from winter indoor and cold-weather events, moves into high-volume European and U.S. spring tournaments, peaks around the European Kubb Championships, the U.S. National Kubb Championship, and the Kubb World Championship, and then continues with national championships, club cups, ranking tournaments, and late-season U.S. events through December. Because there is no playoff season, the main table focuses on event dates, event names, country, format, and notes rather than regular-season and playoff spans.

Calendar Shape and Travel Logic

The first quarter is mainly North American and German, with Skuffle for the Shovel, winter tournaments in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the West Coast Kubb Championships, the North Carolina Kubb Championship, and the German Indoor-Winterturnier establishing the early season. April then opens the main outdoor European run, especially in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. By May, the calendar becomes dense enough that traveling players need to make choices between overlapping national and regional events, including Wisconsin State, Stoughton, Schunchen, Potsdam, several Belgian tournaments, French KGB events, Dutch championships, Swiss cups, and German ranking stops.

June works as a bridge from regional density to championship-scale planning. The German championship weekend, Maryland Kubb Championship, UKKC Open Singles, UK Kubb Championship, Dutch NK Kubb, Deutsche Doppel Meisterschaft, and several Belgian, Swiss, French, and Czech fixtures create one of the most crowded months of the year. For teams targeting international exposure, June also serves as the practical ramp into the July championship block.

July is the symbolic center of the 2026 kubb year. The European Kubb Championships in Linz bring 1vs1, 3vs3, 6vs6, and freshman/open development formats into one continental festival. One week later, the U.S. National Kubb Championship in Eau Claire anchors the largest American weekend, with the pre-championship tournament and adult national championship forming the competitive core. Late July then sends attention to Berlin's Kubb EM events, the Brew City Kubb Classic, Winterthur, Czech and German regional tournaments, and finally Gotland, where the World Championship gives the sport its most visible international identity.

August and September keep the circuit active rather than winding it down immediately. The calendar includes Beloit, Pennsylvania, World Mixed Masters, Czech national formats, the German singles championship, Utrechts Kubb Kampioenschap, Doberaner Kubb Open, Tenedokubb, AHOI City Beachkubb, Potsdam, Lengede, De warmste Kubb, Swiss cups, Czech women's and masters events, and additional ranking tournaments. October through December is lighter but still meaningful, especially in the United States, where Dallas, the East Coast Championship, the Kubb 1v1 World Championship, Orlando Open, and Kubb City Winter Scramble extend the planning horizon into winter.

Useful Planning Notes

• Championship cluster: July 2 through August 1 contains the European Kubb Championships, the U.S. National Kubb Championship, Berlin EM events, and the World Championship on Gotland.
• Country density: Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States, and Czech Republic have the heaviest publicly visible 2026 calendars.
• Format diversity: The year includes singles, pairs, 3vs3, 6vs6, mixed, open-team, and championship-specific formats rather than a single league format.
• Women's calendar: Most kubb events are open or mixed; the Czech MCR zen entry is the explicitly women's championship item found in the available public 2026 listings.
• Verification need: Local tournaments sometimes change registration caps, venues, or start times. Date-sensitive travel should always be checked against the listed organizer before booking.