Regional Status for the 2025/26 Season – Challenge & Explore

by Stefanie Sieber

The new UNEARTHED season is gaining momentum and many teams have already signed up. Currently, 407 Challenge teams and 137 Explore teams are registered. A strong start to the new competition round! Coaches can still register their Challenge teams for available spots until October 31, 2025. Explore teams are welcome to register up to four weeks before their respective exhibition dates.

The registered teams are spread across 52 Challenge competitions and 50 Explore exhibitions, organized by regional partners as season finale events. Most regions are participating again this season, many as usual, some with changes and new venues:

  • At the Lingen location, the competition is paused for the current season. Instead, there is a new competition nearby in Münsterland-Rheine.
  • Hamburg as an independent region will not participate this season, so Hamburg teams will join other northern regions.
  • For the regions of Linz (AT) and Ticino (CH), we are still looking for suitable solutions in the best interest of the teams.

Teams that do not find a suitable event nearby can still participate in the “At Home" Region option — however, without a local final event.

You can find the current overview of all event locations and registered teams here: www.first-lego-league.org/en/locations. If you haven’t registered your team yet, you can do so here: https://www.first-lego-league.org/en/login.

If your team, school, or club is interested in hosting a regional event in your area, please get in touch with us. More information about partnerships can be found here: www.first-lego-league.org/en/community/regional-partner.

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