Two fleet of ships will meet in Alicante, the Spanish seat of the race, during the Christmas holiday of 2022, before the departure of the first stage of the return to the world, which will take place mid January 2023

The date of departure of the first stage of The Ocean Race 2022-23 is already confirmed... IMOCA and VO65 fleets will cross the starting line of the first stage on Sunday 15 January 2023 from Alicante.

There will be competitive activity throughout 2022, and the teams will develop their campaigns along the way the prologue race, as well as with The Ocean Race Legends and the sustainability and youth programs before they are frozen in Alicante by the end of the year.

Later, in January, with the departure of the first stage, the fleets will be immersed in one of the greatest challenges of sailing and testing by the toughest teams in the world of sport: more than 31,000 nautical miles around the planet.

The first stage of the race will lead both fleets to compete for almost a week until they reach Cape Verde. It will be the first time The Ocean Race has stopped in this archipelago on the African Atlantic coast. From there, the race will continue towards South Africa... heading for Cape Town, before starting the longest and most challenging stage in the history of the race: almost 13,000 nautical miles across the South Ocean, passing through the three great ends (Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn) before ending in Brazil, in the city of Itajai... the race will then be headed to Newport (Rhode Island - United States); Aarhus in Denmark; The Hague in the Netherlands and will have its Great Final in the Mediterranean in Genoa... in the summer of 2023. The dates of the scales in the different stages of the 14th edition of the race will be confirmed before the end of the year.