The Run For Your Lives tour is extending, with Iron Maiden celebrating their 50th anniversary throughout Europe next summer – including a mysterious UK show…
Iron Maiden have just announced a big 2026 European headline tour, playing summer festivals and stadiums not visited this year.
Following their incredible 2025 run – which included a stop off at the 75,000-capacity London Stadium in which Kerrang! noted “they have never been better than they are right now” in our review – the heavy metal heroes will resume their 50th anniversary celebrations next summer.
“We are all loving this Run For Your Lives tour,” enthuses Steve Harris. “The fans have been amazing, the setlist is perfect for the 50th anniversary, the show is arguably our best ever and ticket demand was incredible with pretty much everywhere sold out and over a million fans attending. So we all thought we should play some more shows in Europe before heading out to other parts of the world later in the year.
“Of course Simon Dawson will be joining us once again on the drummer’s stool, and both he and the whole band would like to thank our fans for the terrific reception you have given him on the first leg.
“We’ve always enjoyed playing festivals, especially as we get to play to people who aren’t just there for us, and we love that challenge! So we decided to revisit as many great metal festivals as we could get to in this period. Plus we will also get to play stadiums in Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria where we didn’t get to this year and have always loved playing to the passionate fans out there.”
Excitingly, Maiden manager Rod Smallwood teases of these dates, “You will note the schedule below just says UK show for July 11 and there is a good reason for that! We are working on something special for our loyal UK fans including an extension of our Eddie’s Dive Bar concept we launched last year… so watch this space!”
Otherwise, European tickets go on sale September 22.
Catch them live at the following:
Iron Maiden Run For Your Lives European tour 2026
May
23 Athens OAKA
26 Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium
28 Bucharest Arena Națională
30 Bratislava Národný Futbalový Štadión
June
2 Hannover Heinz von Heiden Arena
10 Amsterdam Ziggo Dome
17 Milan San Siro Stadium
22 Paris La Défense Arena
28 Lyon Groupama Stadium
July
7 Lisbon Estádio da Luz
11 UK headline show – details to be revealed
