Drone Racing World Cup
Edition 2025
The Drone Racing World Cup concerns the F9U class (Drone Racing). The World Cup rules are defined in Chapter A of the Volume F9 Drone Sport, and the F9U class rules are defined in Chapter C.
Open International World Cup competitions are FAI second category events based on individual participation (no national team representing a NAC). Any person holding a valid FAI Sporting Licence or FAI Drone Permission can be eligible for the Drone Racing World Cup ranking.
Two Drone Racing World Cup competitions may be organized every year for any country. For a country which extends over more than three time zones, one World Cup competition may be organised within each time zone of the country with a maximum of four competitions for the country concerned.
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12 Drone Racing World Cup competitions from 11 different countries are actually registered on the FAI Calendar for the year 2025.
Note: The event named DR-5.0 by Lithuania to be held indoor on January 18 and 19 initially registered as a F9U World Cup event had been removed on December 18 after being informed this event will be run with Tinywhoop models for which the rules will not respect the FAI F9U class rules.
For each competition, the information Bulletin if available, the detailed results and the FAI Jury President report may be downloaded in the 'DOCUMENTS' section at the bottom on the present webpage.
Note: Click on the link in the 'Event' column to access FAI database information for a specific competition.
COMPETITION |
VENUE - LOCATION |
DATES |
WEBSITE and/or FACEBOOK | LIVESTREAMING | CODE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riyadh Drone Racing World Cup |
Boulevard Riyadh City (Indoor venue)- Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) |
January 23 to 25, 2025 | KSA | ||
| Drone World Cup Tenerife | Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) | April 19 & 20, 2025 | https://www.tenerifedroneparty.com | ESP | |
| Aircrasher FAI Worldcup |
Aichtal (Germany) |
May 30 & June 1, 2025 | https://aircrasher.de/dcs/dcs-aichtal-fai-worldcup-multigp-gq/ | GER | |
| Korea Drone Racing World Cup | Seoul City (Korea) | June 14 & 15, 2025 | KOR | ||
| Drone Racing World Cup Hungary | Hungaroring - Mogyoród (Hungary) | June 20 to 22, 2025 | https://www.droneracinghungary.com | HUN | |
| Sôdertälje World Cup | Sodertalje (Sweden) | June 28 & 29, 2025 | https://www.sodertaljemfk.se/f9u | SWE | |
| Trofeo F9U World Cup Italia | Varese (Italy) | July 12 & 13, 2025 | https://www.f9u.it | ITA | |
| Drone Club Varna Cup | Varna (Bulgaria) | July 18 to 20, 2025 | https://www.facebook.com/Droneclubvarna/ | BUL | |
| DX Racing Serbia | Bela Crkva (Serbia) | July 26 & 27, 2025 | http://www.rcdronsrbija.com | SRB | |
| Sichuan Drone Racing World Cup | Sichua (People's Republic of China) | August 7 to 11, 2025 | CHN-1 | ||
| Zhejiang Drone Racing World Cup | ZheJiang Province (People's Republic of China) | October 2 to 5, 2025 | CHN-2 | ||
| Phoenix Drone Racing | Prilep Sport Stadium, Prilep (North Macedonia) | October 11 & 12, 2025 | MKD |
In addition, two Open International Non World Cup competitions are registered.
COMPETITION |
LOCATION |
DATES |
WEBSITE and/or FACEBOOK |
|---|---|---|---|
| KeQiao World Drone Racing Open international | ShaoXing, China (CHN) | December 29, 2024 to January 1; 2025 | |
| FAI Hong Kong Open Drone Racing Championship | Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong (HKG) | January 11, 2025 | https://dsahk.org/ |
