2025 Diamond League: When and where track and field stars will meet

2025 Diamond League: When and where track and field stars will meet

Evans Ousuru 14:32 - 03.10.2024

The year's champions will be crowned at the Diamond League final, which returns to Switzerland after the 2024 season finale was held in Brussels.

The 2025 Diamond League will once again see top athletes from across the globe battle for glory throughout a 15-meet season.

The season will gun off on April 26 and culminates with the Diamond League Final in Zurich on August 27-28.

As it did in 2024, the season begins with two meets in China, starting in Xiamen before moving to Shanghai/Suzhou in early May.

It continues in Doha and Morocco before moving to Europe for four meets and then the Prefontaine Classic that will take place in early June in Eugene, USA.

Following that, five more meets will take place in Europe before the season's champions are crowned at the Diamond League final, which returns to Zurich, Switzerland after the 2024 season finale was held in Brussels, Belgium.

That 2024 final, which followed hot on the heels of the Paris 2024, saw a host of top athletes named Diamond League Champions, including Swedish world record holder Armand Mondo Duplantis in the men's pole vault

Other winners included; St Lucia's first Olympic champion Julien Alfred (100m), Norway's Jacob Ingebrigsten (1500m), Kenya's three-time Olympic gold medallist Faith Kipyegon (1500m) among others.

At each of the 14 meetings before the Diamond League Final, athletes will be awarded points based on their performance.

Winners of events will earn eight points, with second-place finishers earning seven, all the way to the eighth-place finishers who earns a point.

The highest point scorers throughout the season will be rewarded with a place at the Diamond League Final, with the top six competitors in field events, top eight in 100m-800m and top 10 for longer distance events all eligible to challenge for the title of the Diamond League Champion in Zurich.