Iron Maiden announce 50th anniversary world tour
Metal legends Iron Maiden have unveiled the first batch of tour dates for their 50th anniversary global trek.
The Run For Your Lives World Tour will start at Budapest Aréna in Hungary on 27 May next year, followed by 27 stadium, festival and arena shows around Europe. Their London Stadium concert on 28 June will mark the biggest UK venue the band have ever headlined outside of their festival appearances.
The tour, which will continue into 2026, marks 50 years since Steve Harris formed the band in late 1975 and will feature a setlist, spanning the nine studio albums from 1980 debut Iron Maiden to 1992’s Fear Of The Dark.
“We have already been hard at work for months putting together an even more spectacular and elaborate new show”
“Fifty years of Maiden and I have seen 46 of them,” says Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood of Phantom Music Management. “With well over 100 million albums sold and almost 2,500 shows in 64 countries and counting, to countless millions of fans, we are all still loving every second and consider every tour a new challenge to bring something different and exciting to our fans. And for this very special one we’re pulling out all the stops.
“We have already been hard at work for months putting together an even more spectacular and elaborate new show which will bring the songs to life more than we have ever been able to do before.”
Halestorm will be special guests for the first half of the outing, with Avatar picking up the baton for the second half. The Raven Age will open all UK and Ireland shows.
The full list of tour dates is as follows:
May 2025
27 Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Aréna
31 Prague, Czech Republic – Letnany Airport
June 2025
1 Bratislava, Slovakia – Tipos Arena
5 Trondheim, Norway – Trondheim Rocks (Festival)
7 Stavanger, Norway – SR-Bank Arena
09 Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
12 Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
13 Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
16 Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium
21 Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena
22 Manchester, England – Co-op Live
25 Dublin, Ireland – Malahide Castle
28 London, England – London Stadium
30 Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro
July 2025
3 Belfort, France – Eurockéennes Festival
5 Madrid, Spain – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano
6 Lisbon, Portugal – MEO Arena
9 Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
11 Gelsenkirchen, Germany – Veltins-Arena
13 Padova, Italy – Stadio Euganeo
15 Bremen, Germany – Bürgerweide
17 Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadium
19 Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
23 Arnhem, Netherlands – GelreDome
25 Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park
26 Stuttgart, Germany – Cannstatter Wasen
29 Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
August 2025
2 Warsaw – Poland – PGE Narodowy
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