December 2024 Sports Calendar: Must-Watch Events for the Rest of the Year
Get Ready for a Festive Football Frenzy
The first half of December will bring us a flurry of football from all the top leagues across Europe, but all eyes will be on the final UEFA Champions League week of the year, which will take place over December 10 and 11. During the final matchday of 2024, we will see a few box-office matchups, including Liverpool taking on Girona, Juventus playing host to Manchester City and a replay of the UEFA Super Cup with Atalanta facing Real Madrid.
Heading into the final couple of weeks of 2024, the English Premier League will take centre stage with a whopping 29 matches scheduled from December 21 to the year-end, with the final match coming from Old Trafford where Manchester United will be playing Newcastle United on December 30.
SportyTrader will be aiming to bring you some festive cheer by providing their in-depth Champions League predictions and English Premier League predictions throughout the month.
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Basketball fans are in for a treat this month, with the second edition of the NBA Emirates Cup being the blockbuster event on the calendar. The quarter-finals of the competition gets underway on Tuesday, December 10 (GMT), and will culminate in the Grand Final at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on December 18.
With the Los Angeles Lakers out of contention for the NBA Cup title, a new champion will be crowned this year, but LeBron James and co will headline the NBA Christmas schedule when they take on Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors in a mouth-watering Western Conference showdown at the Chase Center.
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European Rugby Rivals Roar into Action
After a thrilling month of Autumn Nations Series matchups, club rugby resumes in December with the European Rugby Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup bursting onto your screens from December 6, with Bath facing off against La Rochelle before a double-header between the Dragons vs. Montpellier and Gloucester taking on Edinburgh.
While both the Champions and Challenge Cup will pause midway through the month, Top 14 resumes on December 21 and continues until the end of the year. A total of 42 hard-hitting European matches are scheduled between December 6 and 15, and you can keep up to the moment with all the action via our Rugby Liverscores tool.
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The 2024 Formula 1 season has been one of the most closely contested as we have seen in recent years and the grand finale will take us to the Yas Marina Circuit on December 8 for the final instalment of the year - the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen will be crowned as the champion for a fourth consecutive season, but the race for second place is still wide open between Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, while the Constructors Championship is still up for grabs between McLaren and Ferrari.
Fight fans will be licking their lips this December as the UFC heads back to Las Vegas for UFC 310 on December 7, headlined by Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Asakura for the UFC Flyweight Championship. The co-main event will see Shavkat Rakhmonov vs Ian Machado Garry in a UFC Welterweight title eliminator, while Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov will duke it out in the Heavyweight division. Additionally, Power Slap 10 will take place on December 12 with three title fights, including Damien Dibbell vs. Dorian Perez, Isiah Quinones vs. Branden Bordeaux, and Anthony Blackburn vs. Emanuel Muniz.
Between December 10 - 15, the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship 2024 will be in full swing at the Sabiazinho Arena in Uberlandia, Brazil, featuring eight of the best club teams from across the world. With back-to-back champions Sir Sicoma Perugia not participating in the tournament, a new team will have the opportunity to rise to glory this year and SportyTrader will be covering the competition with their expert Volleyball Predictions, so be sure to check them out!
Last, but certainly not least, India and Australia will battle for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, with the second Test set to get underway on December 6. The fourth match will start on Boxing Day, with 90,000 spectators expected to arrive at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to witness the world’s best Test nations face off in the biggest cricketing rivalry of the red-ball format. India has taken a 1-0 lead in the series and is en route to retaining the coveted title for a fifth consecutive year. Check out our cricket predictions right here!
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