U2 tour dates for The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour now have a European launch point, with Stockholm set for April 26 and presales beginning days before tickets go on general sale. For readers in the UK and Europe, the practical shift is simple: the first wave is moving fast, and the schedule already stretches from Sweden to London.
Stockholm Opens the Run
The European tour opens in Stockholm on April 26, then returns there on April 28, before moving to Paris on May 05 and May 08, Lisbon on May 27, Amsterdam on June 05 and June 06, and London on June 18. Wolf Alice will support the tour, and the announced routing gives fans a rare early read on how the stadium leg is being staged city by city.
U2.com subscriber presales begin on Monday, November 2nd at 10am GMT, followed by Visa cardholders in the EU and UK from Wednesday 4 November at 10 a.m. local time until 10 p.m. the same day. The Artist Presale starts on Thursday, November 5, and the general onsale begins on Friday, November 6 at 10am GMT at U2.com.
Visa, Ticketmaster, and timing
The Lisbon date will not be accessible via the Artist Presale, which makes that stop the outlier in an otherwise tightly managed rollout. For buyers, the sequence matters more than the headline alone: first the U2.com subscriber window, then Visa access across the EU and UK, then the Artist Presale, then the public sale.
That structure follows a run that sold out instantly on its first pass, which is why additional dates were added in Mexico City, São Paulo and Buenos Aires. The same demand logic is driving the schedule now, with London, Amsterdam and Paris already laid out and Spain still left for a later announcement.
The Edge on Ireland
The Edge said, "We can't say too much about the next leg of The Greatest Show On Earth - we're still figuring it out - but what we can say is, we'll be wrapping it up in Ireland. There's nowhere else we'd want to be for that party." His line leaves the immediate European routing intact while signaling that the band is already thinking beyond it, including plans in The Greatest Show On Earth World for 2028.
Spain dates remain the open item, and that is the part readers should watch next if they want the full map rather than the first confirmed slice. The band has put the buying windows on the calendar; the remaining question is how the missing Iberian stop will be fitted into the rest of the route.
