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Scotland Euro 2024 fans to form colossal ‘200,000-strong’ Tartan Army in Germany

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Scotland Euro 2024 fans to form colossal ‘200,000-strong’ Tartan Army in Germany

An astonishing 200,000 Scots are expected to head to Euro 2024 as Germany prepares for the biggest ever Tartan Army party.

The incredible following amounts to around one in 25 of the Scottish population making their way to the Championships this summer.




Tartan Army podcaster Gordon Sheach said: “We’ve grown up on the folklore of the pilgrimages to Argentina in ’78 and the convoy of camper vans that went to France in ’98.

“But nothing will compare to the Tartan Army’s exploits in Germany this summer. It has the prospect of being the best summer of our lives.”

Mark Dittmer-Odell, British Consul-General in Munich, gave the new estimate of up to 200,000 Scots fans – double the previous forecast of 100,000 given by the SFA.

The colossal exodus is set to be the biggest movement of Scotland fans “in living memory” and would dwarf the numbers that went to France in 1998.

That was the last time we qualified for an international tournament played overseas, with Scotland famously taking on Brazil in the opening match.

Excitement is set to reach fever pitch across the country with just a month to go until our boys kick off the tournament against hosts Germany in Munich’s Allianz Arena on June 14.

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