Sun Belt Conference Unveils Full 2025-26 Championships Schedule

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference has introduced a full itemizing of dates and websites for its championship occasions forward of the 2025-26 season.
 
The league will conduct 14 of its 19 complete championships at impartial websites along with 5 others hosted on college campuses. The 2025-26 Sun Belt Championships schedule will get underway Friday, October 31 with the boys’s and girls’s cross nation championships in Foley, Ala.
 
The 2025 Sun Belt Football Championship Game shall be televised nationally on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT on Friday, Dec. 5. The primetime matchup will characteristic the champions of the convention’s East and West Divisions and shall be performed on the web site of the divisional winner with one of the best total convention report.
 
The 2026 Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships shall be held from March 3-9 on the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., for the sixth consecutive 12 months. The ladies’s championship recreation suggestions off at 1 p.m., on Monday, March 9, adopted by the boys’s title recreation at 6 p.m. Both video games shall be televised nationally on ESPN linear networks. The tournaments will stay in Pensacola by the 2029-30 marketing 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 12 months from May 19-24. The event will stay on the venue by 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 groups, single elimination
 
Men’s Soccer – Nov. 9, 12, & 16
Hosts: No. 1 and No. 2 seeds
Tournament Format: Eight groups, single elimination
 
Volleyball – Nov. 20-23, 2025
Foley Events Center (Foley, Ala.)
Tournament Format: 10 groups, 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 obtain first-round bye; Seeds 7-8 obtain bye to 3rd spherical; Seeds 5-6 obtain bye to fourth spherical; Seeds 3-4 obtain bye to quarterfinals; Seeds 1-2 obtain bye to semifinals)
 
Men’s Tennis – April 16-19, 2026
Rome Tennis Center (Rome, Ga.)
Tournament Format: 9 groups, single elimination
 
Women’s Golf – April 20-23, 2026
The Lakewood Club (Point Clear, Ala.)

Tournament Format: Three rounds of stroke play adopted by match play semifinals & match play championship
 
Women’s Tennis – April 22-26, 2026
Rome Tennis Center (Rome, Ga.)
Tournament Format: 13 groups, single elimination
 
Beach Volleyball – April 23-25, 2026
Foley Sports Tourism Complex (Foley, Ala.)
Tournament Format: Seven groups, double elimination
 
Men’s Golf – April 26-30, 2026
Annandale Golf Club (Madison, Miss.)

Tournament Format: Three rounds of stroke play adopted 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 groups, 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 groups
(Seeds 7-10 compete in first spherical single elimination; Seeds 1-6 and first spherical winners compete in 8-team, double elimination bracket)