Victoria bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games

XXIII Commonwealth Games

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Host	Victoria, Australia
Motto	A Games like no other, in a place like no other
Opening	17 March 2026
Closing	29 March 2026
Main venue	Kardinia Park, Geelong (Closing Ceremony) Eureka Stadium, Ballarat Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne (Opening Ceremony)

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The Victoria bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games was a bid by Victoria, Australia to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The bid was accepted by the Commonwealth Games Federation in August 2022 but was subsequently cancelled in July 2023 by the Victoria State Government.

The games were scheduled to take place across four regional sites in the Australian state of Victoria: Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat and Latrobe Valley. The opening ceremony was to have been held in the state capital Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the closing ceremony would have been held at Kardinia Park in Geelong. In a departure from previous Commonwealth Games, the event would have been held not in one major city, but across a number of regional cities outside the capital.^[1] The Games were scheduled to take place over twelve days between 17 and 29 March 2026.^[2] It would have been the sixth time that Australia hosted the Commonwealth Games, with the country previously hosting the Games in 1938, 1962, 1982, 2006 and 2018.