Scotland women’s first standalone match at Scottish Gas Murrayfield has already become the fastest selling match in the team’s history.
Supporters have been snapping up the chance to part of it, buying nearly 3,500 tickets in the first four days of sales for the big match versus England next April in the 2026 Guinness Women’s Six Nations.
To put the demand in context, it previously took over four months to reach the same figure for the Scotland versus England game at Hive Stadium in 2024 which eventually sold out.
The match pre-sale for next year took place on Thursday June 5, the day after the announcement, and this generated just under 1,100 sales, the highest ever number of sales in a single day for a Scotland women’s game.
The general sale started the next day and promptly broke the previous day’s record, selling 1,768 tickets.
And, by four days in, nearly 3,500 tickets had been sold.
Scottish Rugby’s chief customer officer Olaf Gueldner said: “The demand for tickets since we announced moving the match into Scottish Gas Murrayfield has been unprecedented.
“Fans clearly want to be a part of history and we will be working hard to generate a record crowd to support our Scotland Women team as they face our oldest and closest rivals.
“The early demand for tickets is a great starting point and we would encourage all fans of sport in Scotland to join us on the day.”
The national team, which played its first ever official Test at Raeburn Place back in 1993, has played at Murrayfield eight times before with the first one being a 34-3 win in 2002 versus Sweden before a men’s clash with Fiji and the last one, a 53-0 loss to the English in 2020, being behind closed doors due to poor weather thanks to Storm Ciara. Six other games were played there between 20004 and 2005.
This will be the first women’s international game in front of fans played on its own at the 67,144-capacity ground in Edinburgh.
Tickets for Scotland-England at Murrayfield in April 2026 can be purchased here.
Scottish Gas Murrayfield is pictured – thanks to Scottish Rugby
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