British Dodgeball opens 2026 championship tickets for Kettering Arena finals day

British Dodgeball put spectator tickets on sale for its 2026 championships at Kettering Arena, pricing the full-day pass at £12 and listing 115 tickets in stock. Entry for fans was set to run by wristband after check-in, using the booking order number and name, a controlled setup that turns the day into a ticketed event rather than an open walk-up crowd.

The championships were scheduled for Saturday, July 4, 2026, at Kettering Arena in Northamptonshire, with the public page tying the venue to the adult men’s and women’s competitions and the junior age groups. A separate groups PDF confirmed the competition day and laid out the women’s, men’s, U17, U15, U13 and U11 pools, underscoring that this was a multi-division national finals day rather than a single-title showcase.

British Dodgeball also packaged the event like a followable tournament, pointing spectators to the order of play, group sheets, live score pages and qualification details from the same championship hub. That structure matters because the adult championships are not open entry events: the qualification documents show men’s and women’s fields built through season-long pathways across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, giving the finals day a national ladder behind it.

The ticketing approach adds another layer. British Dodgeball said 2026 uses one price for all spectators, and the organization said an adult-plus-child combination is cheaper than equivalent options in previous years. That is a small but telling shift in how the championships are being sold, with family attendance baked into the event format and access managed in a way that suggests careful inventory control rather than unlimited admission.

The Kettering booking also fits a broader pattern. British Dodgeball was formed in 2017 and describes itself as the non-profit National Governing Body for dodgeball across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with recognition from the World Dodgeball Federation and the European Dodgeball Federation. It first brought the British Championships to Arena Kettering in 2025, when chief executive Ben Hoyle called the move a significant milestone for the sport, and its 2025/26 National League 1 calendar also includes Kettering Arena among the shared venues across 10 rounds.