Def Leppard Announce 2027 North American Tour With Goo Goo Dolls And The Struts

Def Leppard have announced a 45-date North American tour for 2027, with Goo Goo Dolls joining them on the road and The Struts along as very special guests.

The run kicks off on March 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and wraps up on July 2 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, calling at major cities across the US and Canada along the way.

Highlights include New York’s Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Boston’s TD Garden and the United Center in Chicago. Canadian fans can catch the tour in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Vancouver and Edmonton.

The tour also has a charitable side. For every ticket sold, $1 will be donated to City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organisations in the United States, helping to advance research and new treatments for people facing cancer.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday, October 16 at 10am local time via Live Nation, with a series of presales running in the days before.

First up is the Artist Fan Club presale, which opens on Monday, October 12 at 10am local time. Presales from Citi and Verizon follow for the US dates, with additional presales running throughout the week.

Citi is the official card of the Def Leppard tour. Citi cardmembers can access presale tickets from 12pm local time on Monday, October 12 until 10pm local time on Thursday, October 15 through the Citi Entertainment programme, with full details at www.citientertainment.com. The presale is open to US cardmembers only.

Verizon customers in the US also get an exclusive presale for select shows through Verizon Shine, the company’s loyalty programme. It runs from 10am local time on Monday, October 12 to 10pm local time on Thursday, October 15, and is available via Ticketmaster only.

Fans can opt in to Verizon Shine via the My Verizon App and find out more about Verizon Shine here.

The full list of Def Leppard and Goo Goo Dolls 2027 North American tour dates is as follows:

March 2, 2027 – Allentown, PA – PPL Center
March 5, 2027 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
March 7, 2027 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
March 9, 2027 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
March 11, 2027 – Quebec City, QC – Centre Vidéotron
March 13, 2027 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
March 17, 2027 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
March 19, 2027 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
March 21, 2027 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
March 23, 2027 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
March 25, 2027 – Chicago, IL – United Center
March 27, 2027 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
March 29, 2027 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
March 31, 2027 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center
April 13, 2027 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
April 16, 2027 – North Little Rock, AR – Simmons Bank Arena
April 18, 2027 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
April 20, 2027 – Mobile, AL – Regions Arena
April 22, 2027 – Wichita, KS – INTRUST Bank Arena
April 24, 2027 – Lincoln, NE – Pinnacle Bank Arena
April 26, 2027 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
April 29, 2027 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
May 1, 2027 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
May 5, 2027 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
May 7, 2027 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
May 9, 2027 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
May 11, 2027 – Spokane, WA – Numerica Veterans Arena
May 14, 2027 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
May 16, 2027 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
May 29, 2027 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center
June 1, 2027 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
June 3, 2027 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center
June 5, 2027 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
June 7, 2027 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
June 9, 2027 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
June 11, 2027 – Savannah, GA – Enmarket Arena
June 13, 2027 – Tampa, FL – Benchmark International Arena
June 17, 2027 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
June 19, 2027 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center
June 21, 2027 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena
June 23, 2027 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
June 25, 2027 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
June 27, 2027 – Philadelphia, PA – Xfinity Mobile Arena
June 30, 2027 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
July 2, 2027 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse

The tour caps a hugely busy period for Def Leppard. In February, the band completed their third sold-out Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace, before going on to play sold-out shows across the UK, Europe, South America and Mexico.

Their 2026 travels also took in India, along with headline sets at London’s O2 Arena and the 85,000-capacity Wacken Open Air festival in Germany.

This summer, their Greatest Hits compilation entered four UK charts, debuting in the Top 10 on two of them. The band now count around 11 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than 110 million albums sold worldwide.

Def Leppard are Joe Elliott on vocals, Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell on guitar, Rick Savage on bass and Rick Allen on drums. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees were also recently honoured with their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Their catalogue includes two US Diamond Awards and landmark albums such as Pyromania, certified 11x Platinum, and Hysteria, certified 14x Platinum. Those records helped set the bar for generations of rock fans and musicians alike.

The band have kept that momentum going in recent years. Their twelfth studio album, Diamond Star Halos, arrived in May 2022 and debuted at number one on the Apple, Amazon Music and Billboard Hard Rock charts, while also giving them their eighth Top 10 album on the Billboard 200 and a Top 5 debut in the UK.

It was followed in 2023 by Drastic Symphonies, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The album reached number four in the UK, their highest UK chart entry in more than 32 years, and spent 15 weeks at number one on Billboard’s Current Classical chart.

In 2024, they teamed up with Tom Morello on the single Just Like 73, which went to number one on the Mediabase Classic Rock chart.

On the road, they remain one of rock’s biggest draws. Their stadium runs with Mötley Crüe in 2022 and 2023 sold more than 2.1 million tickets across 27 countries and five continents, and by the end of this year Def Leppard will have sold over 4.5 million tickets worldwide since 2022.

For Goo Goo Dolls, the announcement comes after an extensive run of summer tour dates, which included well-received sets at iHeartRadio Festival and Sea.Hear.Now Festival.

Formed by John Rzeznik and Robby Takac in Buffalo, New York, in 1986, the band have sold 15 million records worldwide. They have picked up four Grammy nominations and nearly a dozen platinum and gold singles, and their 15 number one and Top 10 hits give them the all-time radio record for Most Top 10 Singles.

Their best-known song, Iris, is having a remarkable second life. Originally released in 1998, the Diamond-certified hit has passed 6 billion streams worldwide, with more than 1 billion of those coming in 2025 alone after the track went viral.

Iris has recently received a new version by SZA and has been covered by the likes of Taylor Swift, Machine Gun Kelly, Phoebe Bridgers, Maggie Rogers and sombr. Earlier this year, it was also nominated for Best Throwback Song at the American Music Awards.

Elsewhere in their catalogue, A Boy Named Goo (1995) is certified 2x Platinum and Dizzy Up The Girl (1998) 5x Platinum, while Gutterflower (2002) and Let Love In (2006) have both gone Gold. Something For The Rest Of Us (2010) and Magnetic (2013) both reached the Top 10 of the Billboard 200, and their latest release is the seven-track Summer Anthem EP, out now via Warner Records.

Completing the bill, The Struts have built a reputation for glam-rock swagger and arena-sized energy since releasing their debut album, Everybody Wants, in 2015.

Songs such as Could Have Been Me, Kiss This and Body Talks earned them a dedicated global following, along with opening slots for The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses and Mötley Crüe. Dave Grohl famously called them “the best opening band we’ve ever had.”

Their albums include Young & Dangerous (2018), Strange Days (2020) and Pretty Vicious (2023), and recent singles How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart) and Can’t Stop Talking have kept them firmly in the modern rock conversation. Frontman Luke Spiller also released his debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes And Wine, in April 2025.

With three bands known for high-energy live shows on the same bill, the 2027 tour looks set to be one of the biggest rock tickets of next year. Def Leppard and Goo Goo Dolls tickets go on general sale on October 16.