NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference has announced a full listing of dates and sites for its championship events ahead of the 2025-26 season.
 
The league will conduct 14 of its 19 total championships at neutral sites in addition to five others hosted on university campuses. The 2025-26 Sun Belt Championships schedule gets underway Friday, October 31 with the men’s and women’s cross country championships in Foley, Ala.
 
The 2025 Sun Belt Football Championship Game will be televised nationally on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT on Friday, Dec. 5. The primetime matchup will feature the champions of the conference’s East and West Divisions and will be played at the site of the divisional winner with the best overall conference record.
 
The 2026 Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships will be held from March 3-9 at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., for the sixth consecutive year. The women’s championship game tips off at 1 p.m., on Monday, March 9, followed by the men’s title game at 6 p.m. Both games will be televised nationally on ESPN linear networks. The tournaments will remain in Pensacola through the 2029-30 campaign.
 
The 2025-26 championship slate concludes with the 2026 Sun Belt Baseball Championship, which returns to Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Ala., for the sixth straight year from May 19-24. The tournament will remain at the venue through the 2030 season.
 
2025-26 Sun Belt Championships Schedule
M/W Cross Country – Oct. 31, 2025
Graham Creek Nature Preserve (Foley, Ala.)
 
Women’s Soccer – Nov. 3, 5 & 8, 2025
Foley Sports Tourism Complex (Foley, Ala.)
Tournament Format: Eight teams, single elimination
 
Men’s Soccer – Nov. 9, 12, & 16
Hosts: No. 1 and No. 2 seeds
Tournament Format: Eight teams, single elimination
 
Volleyball – Nov. 20-23, 2025
Foley Events Center (Foley, Ala.)
Tournament Format: 10 teams, single elimination
 
Football – Dec. 5, 2025
Host: East or West Division Champion
 
M/W Indoor Track & Field – Feb. 23-24, 2026
Birmingham CrossPlex (Birmingham, Ala.)
 
M/W Basketball – March 3-9, 2026
Pensacola Bay Center (Pensacola, Fla.)
Tournament Format: 14-team bracket, single elimination
(Seeds 9-10 receive first-round bye; Seeds 7-8 receive bye to third round; Seeds 5-6 receive bye to fourth round; Seeds 3-4 receive bye to quarterfinals; Seeds 1-2 receive bye to semifinals)
 
Men’s Tennis – April 16-19, 2026
Rome Tennis Center (Rome, Ga.)
Tournament Format: 9 teams, single elimination
 
Women’s Golf – April 20-23, 2026
The Lakewood Club (Point Clear, Ala.)
Tournament Format: Three rounds of stroke play followed by match play semifinals & match play championship
 
Women’s Tennis – April 22-26, 2026
Rome Tennis Center (Rome, Ga.)
Tournament Format: 13 teams, single elimination
 
Beach Volleyball – April 23-25, 2026
Foley Sports Tourism Complex (Foley, Ala.)
Tournament Format: Seven teams, double elimination
 
Men’s Golf – April 27-30, 2026
Annandale Golf Club (Madison, Miss.)
Tournament Format: Three rounds of stroke play followed by match play semifinals & match play championship
 
Softball – May 6-9, 2026
Host: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park (Lafayette, La.)
Tournament Format: 10 teams, single elimination
 
M/W Outdoor Track & Field – May 14-16, 2026
Host: University of South Alabama
Jaguar Track (Mobile, Ala.)
 
Baseball – May 19-24, 2026
Riverwalk Stadium (Montgomery, Ala.)
Tournament Format: 10 teams
(Seeds 7-10 compete in first round single elimination; Seeds 1-6 and first round winners compete in 8-team, double elimination bracket)