The 2025 ATAC Sevens is today (Sunday 29th June) at Spartans Community Football Club (Ainslie Park, 94 Pilton Dr, Edinburgh EH5 2HF). You can follow the results on the ATAC Website.

14 teams across 9 different ATAC clubs will compete in the annual sevens tournament, and a walking football tournament for the veterans amongst us. Doonhamers TA are the reigning champions, still undefeated since they first joined ATAC, and will be hot favourites to go 4 out of 4; they have 2 teams. North East NETA also have 2 teams and will fancy themselves, and Sons of Scotland SOSTA will be hoping to make the long drive down from Elgin worthwhile. Previous winners, West End Bar Airdrie WEBATA, and West of Scotland WESTA (also 2 teams) are probably outsiders, along with hosts ETA, who are trying to add a third pint glass to their new look badge. The final team in the 7s are Dunfermline TA, who will be trying to do more than make up the numbers.

Loony Alba LATA are co-hosting with ETA, and the party will move onto the Queensberry Bowling Club after the football has finished for a BBQ, raffle and the post-match analysis.

In the Walking football WEBATA will be trying to go 3 out of 3, but could face a tough challenge from returning Falkirk and District FDTA, who won the first instance of the walking football and will be keen to get back the trophy. ETA were runners up last year, and WESTA will be hoping to improve their fortunes. Check out all previous winners here.

All supporters are welcome to come along, the first games kick off at 12.30 pm. We will also have the first instance of the True Story Trophy played in honour of Diane Doig, a Tartan Army stalwart who we lost way before her time recently.  Diane was a major force and committee member of ETA, a very good friend of NETA and a well kent face (and voice) of many other TA groups and members. The ETA v NETA group stage game decide the winner of the trophy.

Today should have been a day of celebration for the Tartan Army getting their hands on a ticket for the upcoming Euros.  The reality is that it has turned in to a shambles.  A quick and workable solution needs to be found to allow excited and the most loyal fans to secure their tickets for next summer.

We are extremely disappointed and concerned that there was no supporter consultation in advance of the ticket sale schedule and methodology. The opportunity was there. Additionally, we would have expected the SFA to have consulted with other participating nations in order to identify best practice. This was a serious failing.

After attending Fan Embassy workshops in Hamburg last weekend, ATAC got a flavour of what other countries do to sell their tickets and we have been in discussions with the SFA’s Scotland Supporters Club since the beginning of this week to highlight these.

Accountability for what caused this will come in due course, but the most important thing is to have this fixed and communicated as soon as possible.

Contact: Hamish Husband +44 7943 875943

Martin Riddell +44 7974 801315

ATAC committee members met yesterday with the SSC Team, SLO & Security. One of the topics discussed was our upcoming trips to Spain & France

We are surprised to learn that the Spanish Police have designated our match there in the high risk category. Fans travelling to Spain should be aware that this may result in a more visible Police presence than we see at other away matches.

We know that a number of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fans throughout the Tartan Army will have purchased home end tickets independently of the allocation we have received through the SSC.

Fans need to be mindful of the heightened security category, and what this may mean for accessing the home sections. This always carries a risk to gaining entry but may be more enforced for this fixture.