The Volvo Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in professional sport – an obsession for the world's best sailors since 1973. Run on a scale like no other, and a story with the power to engage fans in unique ways, the next edition of the race will start from Alicante, Spain on October 22, 2017 and will visit 11 more iconic cities around the world such as Lisbon, Cape Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport RI, Cardiff and Gothenburg, finishing in The Hague in June 2018.