February 2026: The Busiest Month in Indian Olympic Sport

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February 2026, this is not a routine sporting month.

It is the first true convergence of India’s Los Angeles 2028 Olympic cycle, where Asian championships, world ranking events, domestic leagues and international tours are all happening at once. For the first time in years, Indian sport will be active across almost every Olympic discipline, every single day.

February 2026 is a live, breathing Olympic ecosystem.

February 2026: Where India’s Olympic journey truly begins

From the opening days of the month, global and Indian sport explode into action. Week one alone, from February 1 to 8, is perhaps the most crowded eight-day stretch Indian Olympic sport has ever seen.

India opens its Asian Shooting Championships at home, the first major Olympic qualification battleground of the new cycle. At the same time, the defending champion Indian women’s badminton team steps into the Badminton Asia Team Championships, while the men chase their own continental breakthrough. India’s elite boxers travel to Europe for BOXAM Elite, one of the toughest international tournaments outside the World Championships. In athletics, India’s best sprinters, jumpers and multi-event athletes compete at the Asian Indoor Championships, while wrestling launches its Olympic seeding journey at the Zagreb Ranking Series.

WEEK 1 | Feb 1 – Feb 8

Feb 1 – 8: BOXAM Elite 2026 (Boxing)
Feb 2 – 9: L&T Mumbai Open (Tennis)
Feb 2 – 14: Asian Shooting Championships (Rifle/Pistol) (Shooting)
Feb 2 – 9: Queensland International (Tennis)
Feb 2 – 9: Cleveland Open (Tennis)
Feb 2 – 9: Tenerife Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 2 – 9: Cesenatico Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 2 – 9: Koblenz Open (Tennis)
Feb 2 – Mar 1: INBL Pro U25 Men (Basketball)
Feb 2 – 6: WTT Feeder Cappadocia (Table Tennis)
Feb 2 – 5: WTT Youth Contender Tunis (Table Tennis)
Feb 2 – 7: India Women Tour of Turkey (Football)
Feb 3 – 8: Badminton Asia Team Championships (Badminton)
Feb 3 – 8: Azerbaijan International (Badminton)
Feb 3 – 14: National Weightlifting Championships (Weightlifting)
Feb 4 – 8: Zagreb Open Ranking Series (Wrestling)

Feb 4 – 8: ITTF ATTU Asian Cup (Table Tennis)
Feb 5 – 13: Asian Road Cycling Championships (Cycling)
Feb 5 – 11: Windy City Open (Squash)
Feb 5 – 7: Foil Turin Grand Prix (Fencing)
Feb 5 – 6: Epee Men German World Cup (Fencing)
Feb 6 – 8: Asian Indoor Athletics Championships (Athletics)
Feb 6 – 22: Winter Olympics 2026 (Multi-sport)
Feb 6 – 8: WTT Youth Star Contender Tunis (Table Tennis)
Feb 6 – 7: Epee Women China World Cup (Fencing)
Feb 7 – 8: Davis Cup Qualifiers (Tennis)
Feb 7 – 16: Oeiras 1 Jamor Indoor (Tennis)
Feb 7 – 8: Paris Grand Slam (Judo)

Add to this Asia’s elite table tennis showdown at the ITTF Asian Cup, the Indian women’s football team touring Turkey, the National Weightlifting Championships, the INBL basketball league, and the opening of the Winter Olympics, and suddenly fans are choosing between multiple Olympic sports every hour of the day.

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The second week, from February 9 to 15, takes this momentum and places India at the centre of the global sporting map. Chennai hosts the WTT Star Contender, India’s biggest international table tennis event. Rourkela becomes the focal point of world hockey as the FIH Men’s Pro League arrives. Tennis tournaments continue to run across India and the world, while archery, golf and elite women’s tennis join the mix.

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On February 14, Indian football reboots with the start of the Indian Super League, adding a massive domestic audience into an already overflowing calendar. Rarely does India host hockey, table tennis, tennis and football simultaneously at international level this week does exactly that.

WEEK 2 | Feb 9 – Feb 15

Feb 9 – 15: Teréga Open Pau–Pyrénées (Tennis)
Feb 9 – 15: Queensland International II (Tennis)
Feb 9 – 15: Tenerife Challenger II (Tennis)
Feb 9 – 15: Baton Rouge Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 9 – 15: Chennai Open Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 9 – 15: Dallas Open (Tennis)
Feb 10 – 15: WTT Star Contender Chennai (Table Tennis)
Feb 11 – 24: FIH Men’s Pro League (Rourkela) (Hockey)
Feb 11 – 14: Saudi Ladies International (Golf)
Feb 12 – 16: Texas Open (Squash)
Feb 12 – 16: HCL Indian Tour 6 (Squash)

Feb 13 – 15: Archery Indoor World Series (Archery)
Feb 13 – 22: Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships (Tennis)
Feb 14 – May 17: Indian Super League (Football)
Feb 14 – 23: Dow Tennis Classic (Tennis)
Feb 14 – 23: Oeiras 2 Jamor Indoor (Tennis)
Feb 14 – 23: Open Arena Les Sables d’Olonne (Tennis)
Feb 15 – Mar 1: India Tour of Australia (Cricket)

By mid-February, Indian sport is no longer warming up. It is in full global competition mode.

Week three, from February 16 to 22, is where the Indian sporting ecosystem truly activates. This is when fans who follow domestic leagues, Olympic sports and cricket all overlap. The Shooting League of India launches, turning one of India’s strongest Olympic sports into a televised franchise property. The Delhi Open and multiple ATP tournaments keep tennis fans engaged. Badminton and squash continue their international runs. The WTT Singapore Smash brings the world’s best table tennis players back into focus.

Crucially, this is also when India’s cricket tour of Australia begins, meaning casual sports fans are pulled back into daily sport consumption. This is where cross-platform engagement peaks — Olympic sport viewers, league fans and cricket audiences are all active at the same time. If IndiaSportsHub can ride this overlap, it can convert casual sports followers into multi-sport users.

The final week of February, from the 23rd to the 29th, is where the Olympic narrative sharpens. This is when rankings, qualification points and seeding truly begin to matter. Badminton’s German Open, wrestling’s Turkiye Ranking Series, the Track Nations Cup in cycling, the Asian Cross Country Championships, race walking, judo’s Tashkent Grand Slam, and India’s FIBA World Cup qualifier all stack on top of each other.

This week is not about entertainment it is about data, numbers, points and Olympic trajectories. Every result directly feeds into Asian Games, World Championships and Los Angeles 2028 qualification. This is where a platform that understands rankings, qualification systems and athlete journeys becomes indispensable.

WEEK 3 | Feb 16 – Feb 22

Feb 16 – 26: Shooting League of India (Shooting)
Feb 16 – 26: Play In Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 16 – 26: Metepec Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 16 – 22: Delhi Open (Tennis)
Feb 16 – 22: Qatar ExxonMobil Open (Tennis)
Feb 16 – 22: Argentina Open (Tennis)
Feb 18 – 22: Uganda International Challenge (Badminton)
Feb 18 – 22: Cincinnati Gaynor Cup (Squash)
Feb 19 – Mar 1: WTT Singapore Smash (Table Tennis)
Feb 21 – 22: Indian Open Race Walking (Athletics)
Feb 21 – Mar 2: ATX Open (Tennis)
Feb 21 – Mar 2: Mérida Open Akron (Tennis)
Feb 21 – Mar 2: Megasaray Hotels Open 1 (Tennis)
Feb 22: Asian Cross Country Championships (Athletics)

In a single month, India is competing in over a dozen Olympic sports, hosting multiple international events, running four major leagues, and chasing Asian titles, world rankings and Olympic quotas all while cricket remains active. No other Indian sports platform is structurally built to cover this ecosystem in real time.

WEEK 4 | Feb 23 – Feb 29

Feb 23 – Mar 1: Open Saint-Brieuc (Tennis)
Feb 23 – Mar 1: Challenger Città di Lugano (Tennis)
Feb 23 – Mar 1: Pune Challenger (Tennis)
Feb 24 – Mar 1: Yonex German Open (Super 300) (Badminton)
Feb 25 – Mar 1: Turkiye Ranking Series (Wrestling)
Feb 26 – 28: Track Nations Cup (Cycling)
Feb 26 – Mar 1: Singapore Youth Smash (Table Tennis)
Feb 26 – Mar 1: Women’s NSW Open (Golf)
Feb 27 – Mar 1: Tashkent Grand Slam (Judo)
Feb 28: FIBA World Cup Qualifier – India vs Qatar (Basketball)

This is the month where IndiaSportsHub stops being a niche app and becomes India’s daily Olympic newsroom.

February 2026 is not just a calendar. It is the live start of India’s LA28 story and this is where IndiaSportsHub should own the narrative, every single day.

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