2025/26 Race 4 Eight Schedule
Tucson, AZ, WPH Press –
The World Players of Handball is proud to present the fourteenth Race 4 Eight season, featuring six stops starting in October of 2025 and ending in the spring of 2026.
The 2024/25 Race 4 Eight season featured the most pro player participation in history, with the emergence of a number of young stars on the R48 and WR48 and thrilling conclusions to the R48 Men’s Pro and WR48 that saw the season-ending battle for the Player’s Cup come down to the final points of the eight-month season.
The Race 4 Eight tour has produced electrifying handball since the inception of the tour in 2011, featuring the game’s greatest players battling on the world’s most preeminent stage. The 2025/26 season will see the Race 4 Eight return to Portland, Tucson, St. Louis, Juarez, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City, with the Race 4 Eight pros playing in the many of the most distinguished and fan-friendly handball facilities in the world.
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Players can enter all stops on the 2025/26 Race 4 Eight season below w/all 6 main Race stops counted toward the rankings (December Icebreaker and March Hall of Fame do not count toward rankings)
2025/26 Race 4 Eight Schedule
2025 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #1 – Portland Classic: October 10-12, 2025
October 10-12, 2025 – Portland, Oregon
R48 Men’s Pro
R2 page HERE
2025 Portland Classic press release HERE
2025 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #2 – The Memorial: November 7-9, 2025
November 7-9, 2025 – Tucson, Arizona
R48, WR48, SR48
R2 page HERE
2025 Memorial press release HERE
3-Wall Icebreaker (Non-race event)
December 13-14, 2025 – Tucson, Arizona
Men’s Pro
R2 page HERE
2025 Icebreaker press release HERE
2026 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #3 – Race STL & MO State Doubles: January 30-Feb 1, 2026
January 30-February 1, 2026 – St Louis, Missouri
R48, WR48
R2 page HERE
2026 St. Louis Race 4 Eight press release HERE
2026 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #4 – Juarez Open: March 6-8, 2026
March 6-8, 2026 – Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
R48 Men’s Pro
R2 page HERE
2026 Juarez press release HERE
2026 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #5 – LAAC Open: March 20-22, 2026
March 20-22, 2026 – Downtown Los Angeles, California
R48, WR48, SR48
R2 page HERE
2026 LAAC press release HERE
2026 Hall of Fame (Non-Race Event)
April 10-12, 2026 – Tucson, Arizona
Men’s Pro
R2 page HERE
2026 Hall of Fame press release HERE
2026 R48Pro Season 14 Stop #6 – The Aces Player’s Championship: May 1-3, 2026
May 1-3, 2026 – Salt Lake City, Utah
R48, WR48, SR48
R2 page HERE
2026 Aces Player’s Championship press release HERE
WPH RACE 4 EIGHT: The World Players of Handball’s Race 4 Eight Powered by ESPN features Race 4 Eight stops around the country, all culminating with The Player’s Championship in Utah each May. Similar to NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and the FedEx PGA Playoffs, players earn points in the Race 4 Eight’s regular season stops to qualify for the season-ending Player’s Championship and bonus prizes. The top 8 elite men will receive bonus cash after the season-ending rankings are tallied up; meanwhile, the top 4 Sr 40+ and Women’s ‘Fab Four’ will also receive bonuses. The amount of these bonuses fluctuate from year-to-year Please contact the WPH for this season’s bonus structure. Email the WPH for detailed explanations regarding the ranking system, seeds and bonus pay-outs at season’s end: info@wphlive.tv
For more information on the WPH Race 4 Eight title sponsor opportunity, please contact World Players of Handball Executive Director David Vincent at info@wphlive.tv or World Players of Handball Development Director David Fink at david.fink@wphlive.tv. For more information on the World Players of Handball, please visit wphlive.tv
Tournament seeds reflect rankings at the time of the event but are not the sole determining factor. The WPH retains the discretion to seed players based on their skill level, recent performance, and injury status.
The Executive Director will seed each tournament in a manner that respects the objectivity of the WPH rankings, while acknowledging that some unranked players are strong enough to disrupt the integrity of a draw if not seeded subjectively. Therefore, the seeding process will involve the objective constraint that no ranked player may be seeded ahead of a higher ranked player, while allowing for the subjective seeding of any unranked player the Executive Director deems strong enough to disrupt the draw.