Scotland is back at the World Cup. Let that sink in for a moment, because Scottish football fans have been waiting since 1998 to say those words.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup brings Scotland to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where the national team faces Haiti on June 13 and Morocco on June 19. For a fanbase that has endured nearly three decades of tournament exile, this is less a sporting event and more a pilgrimage.
The Tartan Army crosses the Atlantic
Over 20,000 Scottish fans have traveled to the Boston area for the matches. That’s not a typo. Twenty thousand people crossing an ocean to watch football in a suburban stadium about 30 miles southwest of downtown Boston.
The venue itself has been temporarily rebranded as “Boston Stadium” for the duration of the World Cup. Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, apparently needed a geographic glow-up for the international stage.
