Cape Town is one of two African bases, joining Cape Verde, which was announced as its headquarters earlier this year.

The Ocean Race will return to Cape Town for the tenth time, as the world's most challenging ocean race will reach South Africa in the 2021-22 edition.

Cape Town has been an iconic stop in the race since the first edition in 1973 and has hosted the fleet in all the editions of the race minus two, being the city in which the return to the world has most often been stopped... will be the eighth consecutive scale for Cape Town, which marks the gateway to the stages in the South Ocean.

The Ocean Race will leave Alicante in the fourth quarter of 2021 and will end in Genoa in June 2022; the complete route of the race will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Cape Town joins Itajai (Brazil), Aarhus (Denmark) and The Hague as confirmed headquarters, along with Cape Verde, which will be the first stop in West Africa in the history of the race.