THE AMERICA’S CUP

Name: The America’s Cup
Start: 2027-07-10
End: 2027-07-19
Location: The Bay of Naples

Mid July · The Bay of Naples, Naples · Ten Days · The Water

Arranged by the Court

Dates: 10 to 19 July 2027
WhereThe Bay of Naples, Naples
DressYachting attire
AdmissionOpen to the public
The weatherIn July Naples reaches about 30°C by day and 21°C at night, and rain falls on about one day in thirteen.
The tableThe Court dines afterwards at the Caruso Roof Garden, at the Grand Hotel Vesuvio, Via Partenope 45, Naples (vesuvio.it).
In companyA member who means to go says so to the Secretary, and the Court seats its members together where the engagement allows.RSVP tells the Secretary that a member means to attend. Send passes the engagement’s name, its date and the address of its page to whomever the reader chooses, or, on a computer, copies the address; the Court itself sends and keeps nothing.RSVP

The thirty-eighth America’s Cup is sailed in the Bay of Naples, just off the waterfront of the city. Emirates Team New Zealand defends, for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron; GB1, for the Royal Yacht Squadron and led by Sir Ben Ainslie, is the Challenger of Record.

The first time in Italy.

The Trophy

The Royal Yacht Squadron first presented the trophy more than 175 years ago. Team New Zealand won the twenty-ninth Cup in 1995 and defended it in Auckland in 2000; Emirates Team New Zealand took it back in Bermuda in 2017, and its win in Barcelona in 2024 was the first “three-peat” by a continuous team.

Alinghi, in the words of Tudor Team Alinghi’s David Endean, is “the only European challenger ever to win the trophy”.

The Louis Vuitton Cup

The challengers race first, for the Louis Vuitton Cup: fleet races on 22 and 23 May, three round robins between 26 May and 11 June, a repêchage on 12 and 13 June, the semi-finals from 16 to 20 June and the final from 26 June to 4 July.

The Match follows, first to seven wins, from 10 to 19 July, with provision for extra days. It opens on Saturday 10 July with two races and is due to end over the weekend of 17 and 18 July; 19 July is the last day if it goes the distance. The Regatta Director is Iain Murray.

What to Know

At the Naples regatta of 2026 the Race Village, at Rotonda Diaz on Via Francesco Caracciolo, was free to all, with big screens and the boats’ dock-out and dock-in shows.

In 2026 racing started at two in the afternoon, and spectator boats had to register, keep to marshalled zones, not anchor, and listen on VHF channel 69.

BWA Yachting runs the official superyacht programme: berthing, viewing zones on the water, hospitality and a private social calendar. No tickets or grandstands are published.

The America’s Cup publishes no dress code for spectators. The Court wears yachting attire.

Questions

When is the America’s Cup 2027?

The Match is sailed from 10 to 19 July 2027 in the Bay of Naples, first to seven wins, with provision for extra days. The Louis Vuitton Cup, for the challengers, runs from 22 May to 4 July.

Where is the 2027 America’s Cup?

In the Bay of Naples, just off the waterfront of the city. It is the first time the Louis Vuitton Cup and the Match are sailed in Italy.

Who is racing in the 2027 America’s Cup?

Emirates Team New Zealand defends, for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. GB1, for the Royal Yacht Squadron and led by Sir Ben Ainslie, is the Challenger of Record.

How do you watch the America’s Cup in Naples?

In 2026 the Race Village was free to all, and spectator boats sailed in marshalled zones after registering. The official superyacht programme is run by BWA Yachting.

The Court

The America’s Cup is not the Court’s own. A berth in the superyacht programme, or a place on the water for the Match, is sought on a member’s behalf, and the Court arranges the whole of it: getting there, where to stay, and the table afterwards.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.