World Junior Curling Championships 2027

• February 6, 2027
  Event date:
• February 14, 2027
  Event end:

Under-21 world titles in Scotland

The World Junior Curling Championships 2027 decide the under-21 men’s and women’s world titles. The championships run February 6–14, 2027, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Korea and the United States arrive as the 2026 world junior champions.

A bigger, faster format

2027 brings a significant revamp. The field grows to 16 teams in each of the men’s and women’s events, split into two pools of eight for the round robin. The top three teams from each pool advance to the playoffs, while the bottom three teams overall drop to the World Junior-B Championships. Games are also shortened from ten ends to eight.

Places are earned either through results at the 2026 championships or via the World Junior-B Curling Championships 2026, held in Lohja, Finland, in December 2026, with the men’s competition played first and the women’s after. The full list of nations will be known once that qualifier is completed.

Curl Aberdeen

The host venue is Curl Aberdeen, a long-term partner of World Curling. This is the second time the city has staged the world juniors, after hosting the event in 2018. The rink has a busy international calendar: it held the Pre-Olympic Qualification Event in 2025 and stages the first men’s World Championship Qualifier under the new competition structure in November 2026, before the juniors arrive in February. World Curling has praised the venue for delivering events to an extremely high standard.

For travelling fans, the February dates make Aberdeen the place to see the sport’s next generation under the new format for the first time, at a venue that has hosted the world juniors before and knows the event well. The 2027 championships also complete a season in which the city’s rink stages both a senior qualifier and a junior world championship.

Tickets

Ticketing and spectator information for the championships has not been announced yet and will be published closer to the event.

Regions

• Europe & Rest of World

Location