Murrayfield seating plan

Ninety-nine sections across four stands, and the seven numbers that are missing

The North Stand runs 1 to 20 with no section 19, giving nineteen sections. The East Stand runs 1 to 22 with no section 21, giving twenty-one. The South Stand matches the North: 1 to 20 without a 19, nineteen sections. The West Stand is the largest at forty sections, running to 44 but skipping 37, 39, 41 and 43. Add them together and the ground has 99 sections, not the 106 you would get by assuming each stand runs unbroken to its highest number.

This diagram is schematic and not to scale. Stand shapes and sizes differ from the real ground, and the pitch orientation is not recorded for this stadium, so no goal ends are shown. The capacities are the sourced figures.

Scottish Rugby state that in all four stands, the lower tier is entered near the back and the upper tier near the front — the opposite way round to most people's expectation, and worth knowing if you are counting steps rather than rows.

One pattern in the published data is worth offering as a reading rather than a fact. Odd-numbered sections carry step counts of three to ten, even-numbered ones twelve to twenty-four, and every missing number is odd. That is consistent with odd being lower tier and even upper, with no lower tier at those four positions in the West Stand or at the end of the North and South. Scottish Rugby do not say this. It is our reading of their step counts, and anyone can check it against the same table.

The step counts make more sense alongside how tiers and rows are usually arranged.

Why a rugby international has no away end

Scottish Rugby designate no away section at Murrayfield at all, and across the 107 articles in their help centre visiting supporters are raised exactly once — to say that on international match days the aim is that spectators “be they home or away fans are safe, secure and enjoy a fantastic experience”, looked after by the same stand security managers as everyone else. There is no away allocation, no segregated approach and no rule on opposition colours. Visiting supporters sit among home supporters, wherever their ticket happens to be.

This catches people out, because football conventions do not transfer. A visiting supporter at a Premier League ground is allocated specific blocks, enters through a specific turnstile and is often told what not to wear. At a rugby international none of that applies: there is no away end to find, no segregated approach, and no restriction on the colours you arrive in. Mixed seating is the norm the sport is built around, and Scottish Rugby's material reflects it by never raising the subject at all.

What a tour costs, and what 90 minutes buys

An adult tour of Scottish Gas Murrayfield costs £15.00 from Monday to Thursday, £18.00 from Friday to Sunday and through holiday periods, and £20.00 if you walk up on the day without booking. Concessions — seniors over 60 and students — pay £12.00, £15.00 and £18.00 across the same three bands, and 5 to 18s pay £10.00, £13.00 and £15.00. Under-5s go free. A family ticket covering two adults and two under-18s is £45.00, £55.00 or £65.00.

The gap between booking ahead and walking up is £5.00 on an adult ticket, a third again on the off-peak price, and Scottish Rugby themselves advise booking in advance rather than arriving on spec. Prices move on their own schedule, so treat the figures above as read on 28 August 2026 rather than as permanent.

The tour runs 90 minutes and takes in the Bill McLaren Press Suite, the Scotland team changing room, the players' tunnel and the Calcutta Cup.

The walk-up premium is a common arrangement; booking ahead, and what it saves covers the pattern.

Seven park-and-rides, a tram to the door, and no word on parking

Scottish Rugby name seven park-and-ride sites around Edinburgh and a tram that runs to the stadium entrance, and say nothing whatever about parking a car at the ground. The seven are Ingliston West, Hermiston West, Newcraighall East, Ferrytoll North, Sheriffhall South, Straiton South and Wallyford East, with the council directing visitors to the City of Edinburgh Council site for details of each.

Trams run to the entrance from Edinburgh Airport, Ingliston Park & Ride, Edinburgh Gateway, Edinburgh Park Station, Haymarket Station and St Andrew Square. Accessible parking is the one kind the governing body does describe: it must be booked in advance, and for internationals and large events spaces are typically allocated by ballot rather than first come.

On general matchday parking the official getting-here page is silent — it neither offers any nor states that there is none. That is worth saying exactly as it stands: the absence of a statement is not a statement of absence, and a reader driving to a Scotland game should treat the question as open and check with the stadium rather than read a denial into a page that does not make one.

67,144 against 67,130, and the figure that vanished

Murrayfield holds 67,144, and Scottish Rugby give that figure a basis rather than stating it bare: it is the capacity the ground reached once the corners were filled in, after the refurbished West Stand opened in 1994. A second figure, 67,130, has circulated widely and appears in the governing body's own older material — fourteen seats lower, with no explanation of the difference.

The interesting part is that 67,130 can no longer be found. The page it was cited from has been withdrawn, and it appears on no live Scottish Rugby page today; what keeps it in circulation is other sites repeating it, including search engines summarising the page that no longer exists. This site records both figures and leads with the one that is still published and still explained.

A figure that stops being published is not the same as a figure that was wrong, as a changed capacity against a disputed one explains.

Where the ground sits in Edinburgh

The ground sits at 55.942° N, 3.241° W, and the map below plots it from that coordinate rather than from a geocoded address — Scottish Rugby publish no street address on the pages cited here, so none is asserted.

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55.94231, -3.2409

Can you actually get a ticket?

Not easily, and Scottish Rugby are direct about it. The 2026/27 Scotland Season Pass sold out during the Scotland Supporters Club pre-sale, and the club stated plainly that as a result there would be no general sale at all that afternoon. Seats reach the public through debenture holders first, then the supporters club, then whatever is left, with member clubs served separately through their own ticket secretaries.

That sequence answers the practical question better than an allocation table would. The constraint at Murrayfield is not where you will be put once you are inside, because you could be anywhere. It is whether a ticket reaches open sale in the first place, and for the current season pass it did not.

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