Sports Events



Durham has a proven track record as host to major sports events from the Rose Bowl in 1942 to the USA-USSR Track Meet to the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament to the Special Olympics World Summer Games and the NCAA Golf and Track and Field Championships. For assistance with planning a sporting event in Durham, call (800) 446-8604.

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Criteria for Evaluating Multi-City Sporting Events

The convention and visitor bureaus in Durham, Chapel Hill/Orange County and Greater Raleigh, along with the Chambers of Commerce in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill developed these guidelines to offer insight into how large, multi-city sporting events are evaluated prior to submitting a bid to attract them to the region.