Take That are bringing The Circus Live 2026 Tour to Manchester for four nights at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, turning the city into the main stop on the leg. Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen are set to play the homecoming run over the next week or so.
That is why fans are searching for Take That Manchester now: the band’s biggest local return is no ordinary arena date, with Manchester carrying more nights than any other city on the tour. The shows revive The Circus, the 2009 production built around clowns, fireworks and huge puppet elephants, and the scale is part of the draw as much as the songs.
Belinda Carlisle and The Script are supporting the Manchester shows, giving the bill a bigger festival feel before the trio go on at 8.30pm. The setlist is meant to stay a surprise, yet a previous stop in Cardiff has already been used as the basis for what fans expect to hear, which leaves room for a few changes even in a tour built on familiarity.
The concerts should finish by 10.30pm, which makes the timing clear for anyone heading to Etihad Stadium. What remains unresolved is the exact spread of the four nights, but the shape of the run is already set: Manchester gets the most Take That dates on this leg, and the band return to the city that formed them with a production that reaches back to one of their most ambitious tours.
