Scotland is ready to be confirmed as joint Euro 2028 hosts together with the remainder of the UK and Eire this week with no different bids for the event.
However they nonetheless face a wait to seek out out if that may include computerized qualification.
It’s an enormous enhance to the SFA with the competitors following the success of final summer time’s delayed Euro 2020 which hosted video games at Hampden.
The deadline for nations to precise an curiosity in internet hosting Euro 2028 is Wednesday however UEFA have at the moment obtained no rival bids.
And that provides the UK and Eire a transparent run on the event which can be held 4 years after Germany.
The hosts can be formally confirmed throughout a vote at UEFA’s Exco assembly on April 7 however it will likely be a formality until any rivals emerge.
Italy seemed set to bid however will now change to Euro 2032 and Russia needed to scrap their intention to host it following their invasion of Ukraine.
Turkey may but mount a problem though it’s trying unlikely and all that might stay for the UK and Eire’s bid is proof of presidency funding later this yr.
A complete of 32 groups will take part UEFA stated final October that solely TWO can be exempt from qualification.
When it introduced the bidding course of for 2028 they stated: “As a way to guarantee compatibility with the competitors’s sporting and business format, the automated qualification of the host group(s) shall be assured just for a single host or a most of two joint host associations, as all the time carried out prior to now.
“In case of greater than two joint host associations, the automated qualification of all of the host groups can't be assured and shall be topic to a call to be made together with choices regarding the qualifying competitors.”