Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

[Poto]

With the final show of 2025 over it's time to look towards next year.

What we do know is that Maiden will tour, and it will be the Run For Your Lives Tour again.

It's looking very likely that the tour will go to Europe again. Either from late May or early June, probably shorter than this year and more focused on festivals.

It's also very, very likely that they will go to North and South America.

I expect the tour to be announced fairly soon, sometime in September is my guess. Same as last year.

 

[Aggelos]

The annual rumors for Greece have already started.

 

[Fozzie]

Great thread, bring on leg 2 .

 

[Mosh]

I think the precedent is actually to open up a thread speculating about what they will do in 2027.

In all seriousness, the boring prediction is that that I get the feeling it's going to be something in the vein of TBOS 2016, trying to cover as many territories as possible in a condensed timeframe. Obviously no Ed Force One, but that doesn't mean they can't do something similar in concept. I actually believe them when they say that the tour will only cover 2025 and 2026, and part of skipping a third leg is that they will hit more territories instead of the standard North/South American run and nothing else.

I think they opt for less shows in North America and bigger venues instead, maybe including a few stadiums. With a limited itinerary and maybe a more enticing opening package, it could be possible.

The bolder prediction is that I think they will express in the marketing that this will be the last major Iron Maiden world tour. It will be squishy enough that you could interpret it as a farewell tour or just them saying they are scaling back.

 

[GroundZero]

Could it be that they skip Europe for 2026? It seems weird that they would play two years back to back with the same setlist in the same places, unless of course the Europe part of the leg consists of cities they didn’t visit this year.

How possible is it that the next tour is from the rest of the discography?

 

[ShadowOfTheGods]

Could it be that they skip Europe for 2026?

Bruce has already confirmed they will be back in Europe next year (and people already know some of the dates, it's definitely happening)

 

[Iron Brody]

I’m looking forward to the US leg next year. I want to try to go to a couple shows this time around

 

[Poto]

Could it be that they skip Europe for 2026?

I wasn't expecting it. They haven't toured Europe two years in a row on the same tour since 2016/17, and that was kind of a special case since they were making up for lost time. However there seems to be an expectation/understanding that they will return already next year.