IRON MAIDEN today announces the highly anticipated return to Mexico with their critically acclaimed RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR. In celebration of their 50th Anniversary, the band will be performing once more at the magnificent Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico City on Friday 2nd October 2026 allowing fans the chance to witness the brand new, state-of-the-art production, on the scale it is intended for – huge stages in outdoor venues, to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band’s groundbreaking first nine albums.

Steve says, “We are greatly looking forward to bringing this RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR to Mexico and hope our amazing fans there enjoy seeing the show and hearing the set list as much as we do playing it.

Bruce adds, “This whole tour has been such great fun. I really enjoy belting out all these great old songs, and the whole band are loving playing them too! We’ve got all the big ones from that early period including Hallowed, Run To The Hills, Trooper, Number Of The Beast, Killers, Powerslave, 2 Minutes… and some of them we haven’t played for over 20 years!!  Plus there’s some real epics including my particular favourite ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Seventh Son… We are doing them all and more.  I mean, who wouldn’t for a 50th birthday party!”

“For a tour celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Iron Maiden” notes Manager Rod Smallwood, “the scale and incredible visual aspects of this show deserve larger venues and when it comes to Mexico we just love playing in this magnificent 65,000 capacity stadium which I’m not surprised was named as the best in the world earlier this year by live industry magazine, Pollstar. Fans certainly won’t be disappointed in the show or the 50th anniversary set list that is for sure!

“For the very first time in Mexico we will offer our well-loved Trooper VIP Experience at the venue where fans can meet, relax, enjoy some food, beer and hospitality together plus, of course, get access to crowd free merchandise shopping and receive some very special unique items as a souvenir of the fantastic event.

“Finally it was really special on our European dates this year to see that the vast majority of our fans appreciated and respected our request to severely limit their use of phones at our concerts, ideally just keeping it in their pockets the whole time, especially in those standing areas in front of the stage. Our fans’ understanding and cooperation made a colossal difference to the atmosphere of every show and increased the enjoyment enormously for the band and fans alike.

So for this very special Mexico show we are once again requesting that fans keep their phones in their pockets and enjoy the show ‘in the moment’, rather than raise their phone in the air trying to film sections and thus inconveniencing those around them and annoying the band. So if a so-called fan near you thinks they are special and filming what they selfishly want please just ask them, very politely of course, to put their phone somewhere the sun doesn’t shine!”

This upcoming tour date will mark 34 years since IRON MAIDEN first visited Mexico on the Fear Of The Dark World Tour, and this show is the eighth time at this award- winning venue.

Special guests for this show will be announced in due course.

There will be an exclusive Iron Maiden Fan Club presale beginning on Monday October 27, before tickets go on sale to the public on Friday October 31.

For the rest of the world – don’t worry, there are still more countries to be announced for the Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026!