Want every Euro 2024 match on your iPhone without typing them in one by one? The trick is subscribing to a ready-made fixture calendar — a standard iCal feed that drops every match into the stock Calendar app automatically. Euro 2024 (played June–July 2024) is over, but the same method works for the World Cup, the Champions League, and any other tournament. Here is how it works.
What is a fixture calendar subscription?
An iCal subscription is a live calendar feed you add to the Calendar app. Instead of creating events manually, you subscribe once and all the fixtures appear — with kickoff times and optional alerts. The free service fixtur.es publishes these ready-made feeds for major football tournaments, so you don’t have to build anything yourself.
How to add the Euro 2024 calendar on iPhone
- In a browser on your iPhone, open the fixtur.es page for the Euro 2024 calendar and tap “Apple iCal”.
- The Calendar app opens and asks whether you want to subscribe — tap “Subscribe”.
- Pick an event color for the matches and toggle match alerts on or off, then tap “Add”.
- Done — every match now appears in the stock Calendar app on your iPhone. Thanks to iCloud, the same calendar shows up on your iPad and Mac too. You can edit or remove it later in the Calendars section of the app. Apple Support has more detail on managing calendar subscriptions.
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Use the same trick for any tournament
The steps are identical for the World Cup, the Champions League, the Premier League, and more — fixtur.es and similar sites publish iCal feeds for all of them. Subscribe once per tournament and your calendar fills itself in. For more iPhone tips, see how to automatically identify songs playing nearby and our roundup of which built-in iPhone apps you can delete (Calendar is one of the apps covered).
If it still doesn’t work
Matches not showing? Open the Calendars list in the Calendar app and make sure the new calendar is ticked. If it still won’t appear, remove the subscription and re-subscribe, and check that iCloud Calendar sync is turned on in Settings. 9to5Mac’s iPhone Calendar tips cover more troubleshooting for the stock Calendar app.
Frequently asked questions
The tournament is over — is the calendar useless now?
Past fixtures stay visible as a record of the tournament, but the real value is subscribing to the current competition’s feed. Unsubscribe from Euro 2024 and grab the iCal feed for whatever is on now — the steps are exactly the same.
Does this work on Mac too?
Yes. The subscription syncs through iCloud, so the matches appear in the Calendar app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac alike — subscribe once and it is everywhere.
Conclusion
Subscribing to a fixture calendar via iCal is the fastest way to get every match into your iPhone’s Calendar app — open the fixtur.es calendar page, tap “Apple iCal”, hit Subscribe, and you’re done. The same few taps work for the World Cup, the Champions League, and whatever tournament comes next.
