2027
next calendar year
2027 (MMXXVII) is the upcoming year, which will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2027th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 27th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
January 7–February 5 – The 2027 AFC Asian Cup is scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia, across Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar. It will be the 19th edition of the AFC Asian Cup.
January 13–31 – The 2027 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Germany, with matches in Cologne, Hanover, Kiel, Magdeburg, Munich and Stuttgart. The final is scheduled for Cologne on January 31.
January 15–25 – The 2027 Winter World University Games will be held in Changchun, China. The competition is organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU).
January 20–February 7 – The 2027 African Games are scheduled to be held in Cairo, Egypt.
January 30 – The 2027 German presidential election is scheduled to be held by the Federal Convention to elect the President of Germany.
February – The 40th Royal Rumble is scheduled to be held in Arizona; the event will determine championship-match opportunities for WrestleMania 43.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2027” is next calendar year. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through next, calendar and year, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “next calendar year” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12814. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2027.
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