It’s time to start planning for the long 12 months ahead, and we provide our 50 Ultimate 2019 Sporting Calendar Events Not To Be Missed.
As ever we try and be helpful and offer up the best things in spot we are looking forward to on the 2019 Sporting Calendar.
There is hopefully a good mix of everything, with something for everyone, and no rugby.
Enjoy our 50 Ultimate 2019 Sporting Calendar Events Not To Be Missed.
JANUARY 2019
Jan 5 – Feb 1 – Asian Cup Football
Jan 2019 – NFL Playoffs
We’ve already missed the first week of January, but nothing lost thus far.
Given the Australian Summer of Cricket is a write-off from the 2019 Sporting Calendar, due to the gross incompetence of the Australian Cricket team, we need to look elsewhere.
Asian Cup might be of interest, especially as it is a football tournament where Australia should be competitive, given we won it last time.
NFL Playoffs starts, but we can only be bothered with the big game.
We may have added the FA Cup here, if it were televised anywhere. Stuff the FA and Australian media. And the Big Bash, but it seems to be dragging on.
FEBRUARY 2019
Feb 3 Superbowl
Feb 10 Ipswich v Norwich
The Superbowl makes sense as a February highlight, as it is one of the biggest sporting events around the world every year, and getting bigger outside the US. We’ll have our once a year look, and token batch of fifty cent bets.
Ipswich v Norwich may seem very obscure, but it is one of the good derbies in UK Football. More so, as an Ipswich fan that has already accepted the fate of relegation, and with Norwich’s likely promotion, this could be the last one of these for a while.
MARCH 2019
Mar 4 El Classico #2 Real Madrid v Barcelona
Mar 10 – Entire Moto GP Season – First @ Qatar
March 14-17 NRL Round 1
Mar 17 Australian GP
March 21-24 AFL Round 1
The second of the El Classico’s for the season is in March, but sadly it looks like it won’t be for a title battle. Neither side are at their majestic best this season, but Real Madrid have been much worse than their usual. Still good viewing even without the narrative.
Moto GP kicks off in Qatar, and the first race of any motor racing season is worth tuning in for. But stayed tuned for the whole season though, as Moto GP is still racing in its purest form, with regular battles and overtaking for the lead.
Talking of firsts, a week later the Formula 1 season starts in Melbourne. Whilst it hasn’t usually featured a great dealing of battling at the front for a while, there is some optimism this season with some young guns hired in some of the top cars. And they can race. Nothing tops the first session of the new F1 season.
More firsts in March, as the big seasons of AFL and NRL kicks off in March, and the enthusiasm is high at this point of the year before the NRL inevitably ruin their own competition with over officiating, and the AFL becomes too hard to keep up with at the same time.
APRIL 2019
April 2019 – Stanley Cup Series
Apr 11-14 – US Masters
While the football and motor racing continues in their early stages, there’s the Ice Hockey in the US that needs winner. Even entering as a Johnny Come Lately doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a little rough and tumble on the ice.
As for something down the other end of the pool for speed and action, the US Masters is on in April, and is usually as good as golf gets.
MAY 2019
May 2019 – EFL Playoffs
May 2019 – Australian Federal Election
May 9-12 – NRL Magic Weekend
May 11-12 – Formula 2 Season starts
May 11 – National League Playoff Final
May 12 – EPL Final Day
May 18 – FA Cup Final
May 25-26 – Super League Magic Weekend
May 26 – Monaco GP
May 26 – Indy 500
May 29 – Europa League
30 May-14 July Cricket ODI World Cup
There’s a lot of stuff happening in May, football playoffs, major football finals, rugby league Magic Weekends, Monaco GP and Indy 500 on the same day. Too much sport is barely enough.
There’s football a plenty in May for our 2019 Sporting Calendar Events, ranging from the battle to get from Non League into the fourth division all the way to the glamour of the EPL and European football, and in between. There’s the various promotion playoffs throughout the English Football League, including the big billion dollar game for EPL promotion. The last day of the EPL is usually fun, and there might even be an EPL title to be decided and relegation. The Europa League final is usually worth the effort. The FA Cup sometimes is too.
As for rugby league, there are two Magic Weekends to be played. The one is the UK is another in a long series of Magic Weekends, and they do it right over two days at an unfamiliar location (Liverpool’s Anfield). The NRL version looks like it may underwhelm on paper – as per one of our previous gripes.
Finally two of motorsport’s great days are on in May, and on the same day but separated nicely by time zones. Despite usually being as boring as any sport can get on track, the Monaco GP is still one race to watch, if only to marvel at cars still circulating around such an absurd track. The Indy 500 has much fewer corners, but is still worth a view, and that is increased with Fernando Alonso’s return to the Brickyard in 2019.
The Cricket World Cup gets underway on May 2019, but it’ll be a long one, and given Australia’s horrible ODI form, it may be one to keep a casual eye on.
JUNE 2019
June 1- Champions League Final
June 2019 – NBA Finals Series
June 5 – State Of Origin 1
June 7-July 7 – Womens Football World Cup
June 15-16 – Le Mans 24 Hours
June 20 – State Of Origin 2
The best of European Football sneaks into June on a Sunday night, and although it probably won’t feature Real Madrid, there’ll probably still be the torso of Ronaldo on show.
The other big football for the month is the women’s World Cup. Who doesn’t love a football World Cup, especially one where Australia will not only score goals from other than a VAR penalty, but the women’s team are a very good chance of winning the while tournament.
Rugby League’s big product – State of Origin – has two of their three games of the series in June, one of them in the rugby league heartland of Perth. The only downside being the requirement of Channel Nein to watch.
For those who like their action a little more gradual, the 24 Hour of Le Mans will have you covered. Good overnight lounge sleep-watch material.
NBA Finals are in June too. The seven game finals series always seems like overkill, but is probably not going to with the Golden State Warriors.
JULY 2019
July 1-July 14 – Wimbledon
July 6-28 -Tour de France
July 10 – State Of Origin 3
July 18-21 – British Open
If we’re only to pay a tiny bit of attention to one tennis tournament in the 2019 Sporting Calendar, it may as well be Wimbledon. Normally tennis outside of a Tennis Jerk dummy spit doesn’t interest us much, but Wimbledon just has something extra that makes you want to tune in for the occasional match.
Slow TV seems to be a growing trend, so the Tour de France was well ahead of its time then. Another sporting event where we aren’t normally interested, unless they are riding like a jerk when trying to drive somewhere, but the scenery of the Tour de France makes it a great lounge nap watch throughout July.
The third State of Origin falls in July, and is hopefully a series decider.
The British Open is just as good as the US Masters, so it has been included as well. It used to feature a lot of Miguel Angel Jimenez, which was a reason alone to watch.
The Cricket World Cup final is on sometime in July, but is likely not to feature Australia, so one for the proper cricket fans.
AUGUST 2019
Aug 1-Sep 17 – Ashes Series
Aug 10 – Week 1 of EPL
Aug 28 – La Tomatina
Ashes series are always a premium sporting event of the sporting calendar, especially the one in England where Australia have forgotten how to win. That has become contagious in Australia as well. Perhaps a potential return of the sandpaper trio could win a series in the UK.
All the football in the UK and Europe kicks off again in August, and there’s nothing like a first day of term for the Premier League. And every other league around the world.
For no good reason, and with very little to do with sport, we chose La Tomatina the event where people throw tomatoes at each other in Spain. Truss the Spaniards to know how to have a good time.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Sept 1 – Belgian GP
Sep 5-9 – AFL Finals Series
Sep 13-15 – NRL Finals Series
Sept 28 – AFL Grand Final
Sept 29 – Intrust Super Cup Qld GF
Sept 29 – Intrust Super Prem NSW GF
We start off June with Formula 1’s best track in Belgium. Similar to Monaco, it’s almost more about the track than the race. Although with the changeable weather does bring the occasional great race too.
Then there’s the traditional September traditions of footy finals for both the AFL and NRL, The AFL of course kicks off earlier so they can have their Grand Final on the traditional last weekend in September.
Rugby League’s Grand Final is in the next month, but there’s always the second tier Intrust Super competitions Grand Finals which are usually a good day out. Emphasis on the day.
OCTOBER 2019
Oct 6 – NRL Grand Final
Oct 13 – Bathurst 1000
Oct 2019 – Oceania Cup
Oct 22 – World Series
Oct 22 – Super League Grand Final
Oct 27 – Australian Moto GP
The NRL Grand Final starts an eclectic month on the 2019 Sporting Calendar, just a pity it remains a night time Grand Final. The UK version of the rugby league Grand Final is on two weeks later.
There’s more rugby league late with the promising proposed series between Australia, New Zealand, and all the Pacific nations, including our favourite – PNG. If it does happen, it’ll be the best thing in rugby league for 2019.
One of the great sloth days in – Bathurst 1000 – is on after the NRL Grand Final, and is always worth a solid day on the couch.
More motor racing to top off the month is the Moto GP at Philip Island, if you haven’t been following it each week that is. One of the great sports at one of the great tracks.
NOVEMBER 2019
Nov 5 – Melbourne Cup
The football in the UK and Europe are in full swing to be you busy by this stage of the year, but there’s still room for a premium event.
Not that the Melbourne Cup is great betting race, but it is a great event on the 2019 Sporting Calendar. If only for the relaxed work day if you can’t get to the track.
DECEMBER 2019
Dec 1 – Abu Dhabi GP Finale – F1, F2, F3
Dec 2019 – World Darts Championship
Dec 26 – Boxing Day Test
Our calendar has been pretty Formula 1 heavy so far, so as if we wouldn’t tune in for the final race of the season, with the faint hopes that the tortuous Abu Dhabi will at least have a title showdown to make up for the manufactured boredom of the circuit. Although it usually doesn’t stop F2, F3 having a decent go at it. It’s their final races too.
Nothing says the Christmas period like the World Darts Championships. The most fun sporting event on the face of the earth.
Finally, we round off the 2019 Sporting Calendar with the Boxing Day Test. Who knows what side will be, or how many Marsh brothers will disappoint, but it is still a top-notch event.
Our 50 2019 Sporting Calendar Events Not To Be Missed
Time | Sport | Event |
Jan 5-Feb 1 | Football | Asian Cup |
Feb 3 | NFL | Superbowl |
Feb 10 | Football | Ipswich v Norwich |
Mar 4 | Football | El Classico #2 |
Mar 10 – | Motor | Entire Moto GP Season |
March 14-17 | NRL | NRL Round 1 |
Mar 17 | F1 | Australian GP |
March 21-24 | AFL | AFL Round 1 |
April 2019 | Ie Hockey | Stanley Cup Series |
Apr 11-14 | Golf | US Masters |
May 2019 | Football | EFL Playoffs |
May 2019 | Other | Australian Federal Election |
May 9-12 | NRL | NRL Magic Weekend |
May 11-12 | F2 | Formula 2 Season starts |
May 11 | Football | National League Playoff Final |
May 12 | Football | EPL Final Day |
May 18 | Football | FA Cup Final |
May 25-26 | NRL | Super League Magic Weekend |
May 26 | F1 | Monaco GP |
May 26 | Motor | Indy 500 |
May 29 | Football | Europa League |
30 May-14 July | Cricket | Cricket ODI World Cup |
June 1 | Football | Champions League Final |
June 2019 | NBA | NBA Finals Series |
June 5 | NRL | State Of Origin 1 |
June 7-July 7 | Football | Womens World Cup |
June 15-16 | Motor | Le Mans 24 Hours |
June 20 | NRL | State Of Origin 2 |
July 1-July 14 | Tennis | Wimbledon |
July 6-28 | Other | Tour de France |
July 10 | NRL | State Of Origin 3 |
July 18-21 | Golf | British Open |
Aug 1-Sep 17 | Cricket | Ashes Series |
Aug 10 | Football | Week 1 of EPL |
Sept 1 | F1 | Belgian GP |
Sep 5-9 | AFL | AFL Finals Series |
Sep 13-15 | NRL | NRL Finals Series |
Sept 28 | AFL | AFL Grand Final |
Sept 29 | NRL | Intrust Super Cup Qld GF |
Sept 29 | NRL | Intrust Super Prem NSW GF |
Oct 6 | NRL | NRL Grand Final |
Oct 13 | Motor | Bathurst 1000 |
Oct 2019 | NRL | Oceania Cup |
Oct 22- | Baseball | World Series |
Oct 22 | NRL | Super League GF |
Oct 27 | Motor | Australian Moto GP |
Dec 1 | F1 | Abu Dhabi GP |
Dec 2019 | Darts | World Darts Championship |
Dec 26 | Cricket | Boxing Day |
Aug 28 | Other | La Tomatina |
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