Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026 between reigning World Champion Grandmaster Gukesh D and his challenger, Grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov, will be held at the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland. The event will run from 22 November to 12 December 2026, bringing a World Championship match back to Switzerland for the first time since Brissago in 2004.
Gukesh and Sindarov will both be 20 when the match begins, making this the youngest World Championship contest in history. For Gukesh, Geneva will mark the first defence of the title he won in Singapore in 2024. Sindarov arrives as the winner of both the 2025 FIDE World Cup and the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament.
Tickets are on sale at the tournament's website: https://worldchampionship.fide.com/tickets