All Elite Wrestling returns to Wembley Stadium in 2026

AEW announces a Bank Holiday Slam for another record-breaking London takeover

All Elite Wrestling is heading back to Wembley Stadium in 2026, with the event set for Sunday, 30 August over the bank holiday weekend.

This marks the third time the Jacksonville-born promotion has planted its flag in the UK’s most famous arena. In 2023, AEW’s inaugural Wembley outing pulled in 81,035 fans from more than 70 countries – the largest attendance ever recorded for a professional wrestling event.

AEW doubled down on that momentum last year with All In: Texas, its first domestic spin-off, which became the promotion’s highest-grossing and most attended US event to date. Now London gets another swing at the pageantry.

Previous Wembley cards have leaned hard into the drama. UK favourite Will Ospreay received a hero’s welcome on home turf, while Bryan Danielson put his career on the line in a bruising world title clash with Swerve Strickland. In the women’s division, Mercedes Moné, Kris Statlander, Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale all featured in headline-grabbing bouts that broadened the event’s reach beyond the traditional wrestling diehards.

AEW’s pitch is clear – elite in-ring work wrapped in stadium-sized theatre. At Wembley, that formula has skewed closer to a cup final or a festival headline set than a standard wrestling card, with tens of thousands generating a wall of noise that rattles the rafters.

The 2026 line-up is still under wraps, but if history is any guide, expect title matches, surprise appearances and the kind of chaotic brawls that travel well across time zones.