Heart of Midlothian Matches — Tickets & Packages

Tickets for Hearts matches are bought through two official channels: the club's ticketing website and the ticket office. The ticket office is in the main stand, and is open Tuesday to Saturday, and on matchdays from the morning until kickoff. And one thing the club does better than most clubs in Europe: it publishes in advance a calendar of sale-opening dates for every home match of the season, and they all open at 10:00. For league matches, season-ticket holders' seats are held until Sunday at noon, and general sale opens right after that. For a European match the order is announced differently: a window for season-ticket holders, followed by general sale — and for those matches no seats are held for season-ticket holders at all, because of the stadium configuration UEFA requires. And now the part you must understand before buying a flight, because it's what can stop you at the gate — "loyalty points." A fan earns one point for every home match booked, and twenty points for a season ticket, and all points accrued before last season were wiped. That means anyone buying for the first time starts from zero. And three home matches in the 2026/27 season are marked in the official schedule as requiring loyalty points — two against Rangers and one against Celtic. In practice, the three big matches are closed to a casual visitor. We won't state the exact threshold — it varies from match to match and the club itself defines it as temporary. And a second, even sharper detail: there's no general sale at all for the home derby against Hibernian. In the official schedule it's marked as sold only through the club's ticket exchange. How that exchange works: only season-ticket holders can sell on it, it opens automatically the moment a match sells out to the last seat and keeps refreshing until matchday as more season-ticket holders add seats. Registration for sale closes four hours before the match and the exchange itself closes three hours before, purchase is online only — the ticket office doesn't sell exchange tickets — and the ticket arrives by email for self-printing and is non-transferable and non-refundable. Sometimes the exchange itself also requires loyalty points. Don't count on "we'll show up and buy at the box office": the club announced that renewals for 26/27 reached the highest rate in recent years, and one European home match sold out this season. At the gate: gates open an hour before the match — that's officially published and consistent in every announcement. Security screening at entry is a condition of entry, and refusing to cooperate leads to entry being refused. And here's a Scottish law worth knowing: it is a criminal offense to enter or attempt to enter a sports stadium with alcohol, with a bottle or can, or while intoxicated — and the club adds that anyone who appears to have had too much to drink will not be admitted. Pyrotechnics, flares, smoke and fireworks are also banned. Standing in seated areas is prohibited. On smoking — here the club contradicts itself: one of its pages bans smoking entirely, and another defines approved smoking areas; vaping counts as smoking in every respect. Ask a steward on matchday. A minor under 13 is admitted only with an adult, up to two minors per adult. Bag policy and re-entry policy are not published at all, so we won't invent them. Concession stands inside accept credit card only. TikTik obtains tickets for Hearts matches at Tynecastle, and can tell you in advance whether the match you want is even open to the general public — and that's exactly the point where it matters most.

Tynecastle Park is reached by buses 1, 2, 3, 25 and 33, which stop at the nearby "Tynecastle" stop. The address the club itself publishes is Tynecastle Park, McLeod Street, EH11 2NL — not "Gorgie Road," which is what most third-party sites write. The main turnstiles are on McLeod Street, and the club's driving directions are: drive along Gorgie Road, go under the rail bridge, and McLeod is the fourth street on the left, with the "Tynecastle Arms" pub on the corner. And now the buses — and here you need to be careful even with the club itself. We checked every line against the current network map of Edinburgh's transit operator, the one in effect since 22 February 2026, and against the city-center stop table. The lines that really run along Gorgie Road near the stadium are 1, 2, 3, 25 and 33, and the nearest stop is officially called "Tynecastle," about one hundred to one hundred fifty meters away. From Haymarket rail station: the stop is HG on Dalry Road, and from there lines 2, 3, 25 and 33 continue past the stadium. Lines 4 and 44 also stop at HG but turn onto Ardmillan Terrace and don't reach the stadium — you can get off them at "Springwell House" and walk. From the city center and Waverley: lines 3, 25 and 33 (line 25 also stops at Waverley Steps). And a small warning: line 2 reaches the stadium but has no stop in the city center apart from Haymarket — anyone waiting for it on Princes Street will wait in vain. The club's recommendation for those coming from the south: continue via Waverley to Haymarket, and from there along Dalry Road and Gorgie Road. We won't state a walking time — there's no official source for one, and any "twenty minutes" you've seen is a third-party site's guess. A detail the club itself doesn't mention and is worth knowing: Slateford rail station is closer to the stadium than Waverley. And now the two big traps — and both appear on the club's own matchday page. The first: the club publishes route 21. In the current network, route 21 is an orbital route on the north side of the city that doesn't touch Gorgie, Dalry, or the city center at all. The second is more serious: the club publishes four lines from an operator that no longer runs in Edinburgh at all — it has left the city, not just changed its route. Don't look for them at the stop. And don't take route 22: it's been rerouted and only reaches the far western end of Gorgie Road. Light rail (tram): there's no stop at Tynecastle. Edinburgh's tram line has a single route from the airport to Newhaven, and the nearest stops are Balgreen and Murrayfield Stadium, about a kilometer and a quarter away. The club's matchday page never mentions the tram once, and the "fifteen-minute walk from Murrayfield" that circulates online is from guide sites — and refers to a different stadium entirely. One dated note: as of 7 August 2026 the tram line was running a partial route due to an incident in the city center — that's a temporary situation, not a season-long fact; check the tram operator on your day. And what is convenient in any case: Haymarket is both a tram stop and a rail station, and it's exactly the starting point the club itself recommends for Tynecastle.

The club states that there are no special parking arrangements at Tynecastle Park, and traffic wardens strictly monitor street parking. Let's quote the club word for word, because that is the answer: "There are no special parking arrangements, and traffic wardens strictly monitor street parking in the immediate vicinity of the stadium." Note the wording — the club doesn't say "there is no car park," and neither does the council, so we won't say it on their behalf either. What is confirmed: the stadium sits inside a City of Edinburgh Council controlled parking zone (Sector S6, with four more sectors around it), and the club doesn't mention this on its page at all — it does recommend street parking north of Murrayfield and south of Gorgie Road in the area discussed, without mentioning that these areas too lie inside controlled parking zones. The council's official hours for these sectors are Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:30, and on main roads Monday to Friday 09:15 to 16:30 and Saturday 08:00 to 18:30. The tempting but risky conclusion: it's true that for a Sunday match or a weekday evening match the scheme usually isn't in effect — but that doesn't mean "parking is allowed." Yellow lines, public transport corridor restrictions, and the club's own traffic arrangements remain in force, and the spots directly opposite the stadium on Gorgie Road are marked in the council's database as loading bays on a bus corridor — meaning they're not for fan parking. The only parking the club does publish is for the away team's coaches, on Russell Road via McLeod Street — and it's not suitable for double-decker coaches. What does work, and we've derived this from the operator's own route data: two "park and ride" sites are connected to the stadium by a single bus — Hermiston on route 25, and Sighthill on route 33. A note of honesty: no official body recommends these for Hearts matches; this is our own inference from the route maps. On disabled parking there's no published information at all — the club has a named accessibility officer, and that's the contact to use. As for matchday road closures: we won't name any street or time, and for a telling reason. In response to a freedom of information request the council wrote that it isn't the one running the traffic scheme at Tynecastle — the club's contractor does it — so none of that is published. A restrictions document from last season did exist, but the link to it is dead and no version has been found for this season. Bottom line: come by bus.

To travel to a Hearts match, fly via London — our check found no direct flight from Tel Aviv to Edinburgh. The route simply doesn't exist — not seasonal, not limited. We checked a live search on three dates spread across the season and the result was zero on all three, and an independent route database marks the route as inactive, operated by zero airlines. If you've seen a claim about a weekly direct flight from Edinburgh — the very page it's quoted from says the opposite itself. The practical route is via London, and here the airport names need to be precise, because they're not interchangeable. As of early August 2026, what's actually sold as a direct flight from Tel Aviv is to London Luton (Wizz Air) and London Stansted (Arkia). No direct flight to Heathrow was found from Tel Aviv for August or mid-September — but British Airways is selling one there from November 2026. And to Gatwick — Wizz Air from late October 2026. In other words, the answer changes depending on the month you're flying, and that's not a minor detail but the central one. Two airlines we won't write anything about: one simply doesn't appear in the system we checked through (a control check showed it's also absent from its own flagship route, so its absence doesn't prove anything), and the other appeared only in codeshare flight numbers and not as the operating carrier. From London to Edinburgh there are direct flights: from Heathrow with British Airways on several flights a day, and from Luton and Stansted — that is, from exactly the two airports that have a direct flight from Tel Aviv today — there are direct onward flights to Edinburgh. There's also the train, and the operator itself writes that trains leaving King's Cross reach Waverley "in around four hours and eight minutes," every hour — city center to city center, no airports involved. We won't state weekly frequencies for any route — we haven't verified any airline's timetable, and dates we checked aren't frequency. From Edinburgh Airport to the city — and here the official data is excellent. The airport is the western terminus of the tram line, the stop is right next to the terminal via a covered walkway, and the operator itself writes "less than 35 minutes to the city center." There's also a 24-hour express bus ending at Waverley Bridge, and according to the operator it departs up to every ten minutes during the day and every twenty minutes at night. We took its travel times from the timetable itself — about thirty minutes to the city center, and as of writing it's running a replacement service, so it's longer. A "door to door" total isn't given — every number here is a separate official figure, and adding them into one is an invention. And from Haymarket to the stadium: lines 2, 3, 25 or 33, or on foot along Dalry Road and Gorgie Road. One last warning, and it's important: flight routes from Israel have changed repeatedly during 2025 and 2026 — check your specific date in the booking system, not on a marketing page.

Not a visa, but yes an entry authorization. Since 8 January 2025, Israeli citizens have been required to have a UK ETA. The cost is £20, it allows multiple entries and is valid for two years or until the passport expires - whichever comes first - and permits a stay of up to 6 months per visit. You apply on the official website or the UK ETA app. The response usually arrives within a day, but you should allow up to three working days, and you must not fly before the authorization has been received by email.

Anyone who wants atmosphere sits in the Gorgie Stand at Tynecastle Park — that's where the "Gorgie Ultras" are, according to the club. Four stands, with names the club itself gives them: the Main Stand, Wheatfield, Gorgie and Roseburn. The atmosphere is led by the "Gorgie Ultras," and they're in the Gorgie Stand — the club itself has stated this, and in May 2026 it also mentions that flags in the Gorgie Stand are supplied by the ultras and the club together. A note of honesty: online guides say it's actually Wheatfield that's the loud stand — that clashes with what the club itself documents, so we go with the club. We won't state the ultras' exact block, because the precise spot was only confirmed for a 2023 cup match. And we won't call any stand "quiet" either — there's no official statement for that. What is true about the Main Stand: that's where the club shop, ticket office, bar, dugouts, tunnel, changing rooms and hospitality are. Away fans sit in the Roseburn Stand at the north end, entering through turnstiles 23 to 32 on McLeod Street — as stated on the official page. And a surprising detail: only Hibernian gets the whole Roseburn Stand, under a reciprocal arrangement in which Hearts get the entire away section at Easter Road; every other away team gets only part of it. We won't state the number of away seats — the club doesn't publish a figure, and the numbers circulating online range from a few hundred to a few thousand and come from unofficial sites. And for European matches the rule is entirely different: away fans sit in Sector Q of the Main Stand — that's a UEFA requirement for every European match. The club divides those seats into four categories — Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze — and that's the simple way to understand what you're buying. A small convenience worth knowing: home fans can enter through either the Wheatfield or the Gorgie turnstiles regardless of which of the two they're sitting in. Nothing is claimed about roofing — there's no official source saying the stands are covered, and in Edinburgh that's not a theoretical detail. Nothing on safe standing either — it was considered in 2017 and never announced. Accessibility: entry for fans with disabilities is through designated entrances around the stadium, there's audio-described match commentary on matchdays, a published accessibility policy, and a named accessibility officer at the ticket office — and that's the contact, because the number and location of wheelchair spaces aren't published. Accessible stadium tours also officially exist. Family stand — there isn't one. We found no official designation for one, and we won't invent it. And finally, the most important thing for this season: the club states that it cannot guarantee a specific seat for a European match, because both the stadium configuration and the away-fan allocation may change.

Hearts enter the 2026/27 season with a new manager, Wouter Vrancken, and with a return to European football. It's a season that opens with a concentrated taste of "almost," and with two new faces in the boardroom. Hearts finished 2025/26 in second place with 80 points, and lost the title on the final matchday: they went into the match at Celtic Park a point ahead and needing just a point, and lost 3:1. Celtic finished with 82. No trophy came their way: in both cup competitions they went out on penalties, 5:4 both times. But second place brought the real prize — European football returned to Tynecastle. And now the two pieces of news that explain the season: the new manager is Wouter Vrancken, a 47-year-old Belgian, appointed on 25 June 2026 for two years, who arrived from Sint-Truiden with two assistants. We confirmed him in live club content from 5 August 2026. And why he's here: the previous manager, Derek McInnes, left for Rangers on 17 June 2026 — and that same summer the club's top scorer, Lawrence Shankland, also left for Rangers, the very player who scored in the title-deciding match. If you've seen a source saying McInnes is the manager — it's out of date. Recruitment was especially broad: eight players with their own official announcement between June and July 2026, plus four more who were signed in advance and arrived this summer. And a warning about sources: aggregator transfer sites returned fabricated records — including one player listed as signed from a club he didn't actually come from at all — so every name here is from official club announcements only. The schedule for the opening: the season opened away at Aberdeen on 1 August (a 2:1 loss), and the first home league match was held on Sunday 9 August 2026 at 15:00 against Dundee United and ended in a 4:0 win for Hearts in front of 18,602 fans — and it was moved from Saturday because of the European match, so if you've seen 8 August, that's the original date. In August at home there's also a cup match against Inverness on the 16th at 14:00, and a league match against St Johnstone on the 29th at 15:00. The away match at Falkirk that was scheduled for 22 August was postponed, and no new date has been published. And now the European part, and it's changing right now: Hearts were knocked out of the first qualifying round by Sturm Graz, then lost 6:1 in Lisbon to Benfica on 6 August. The return leg at Tynecastle, Thursday 13 August 2026, ended 1:1, and Benfica went through 7:2 on aggregate. Hearts dropped to the play-off round against Rapid Vienna, who beat Estonia's Paide Linnameeskond 6:1 on aggregate — the first home match on 20 August 2026, and the return leg away on the 27th. We won't name the competition — two of the club's own pages call it by two different names. And we're quoting the following warning straight from the club, because it's exactly the point: "Fans are advised not to book travel until match details are confirmed." Take that seriously — the club also states that all matches are subject to change of date and time.

Hearts' big match is the Edinburgh derby against Hibernian. The city's two clubs: Hearts at Tynecastle in the Gorgie neighborhood in the west, and Hibernian at Easter Road in the Leith neighborhood in the northeast. This isn't just a matter of pride: last season both clubs were in the top five — Hearts second and Hibernian fifth. We won't reach for superlatives: we found no official source for the claim that this is "the oldest derby in the world," so we won't write it. And the match that's really worth it for a tourist: Hearts vs. Hibernian at Tynecastle, Saturday 26 December 2026 at 15:00 — a Boxing Day derby, at home. The two away matches are Wednesday 2 September 2026 at 19:45, and Saturday 10 April 2027 at 15:00, both at Easter Road. In the schedule published so far there are only three derbies; a fourth derby is possible after the league split, and that hasn't been published yet. And now two things that could ruin the trip, so they're here and not in a footnote. First: the date and time of the home derby are provisional. The club states that all matches are subject to change, the Boxing Day derby is a clear candidate for TV selection, and this season one home match has already been moved and the opening match was already picked for broadcast. Second, and this is the critical one: there's no general sale at all for the home derby. In the official schedule it's marked as sold only through the club's ticket exchange — which opens the moment the match sells out to the last seat, and only season-ticket holders can sell on it. Sale for it opens on 9 December (and that's the sale-opening date, not the match date). In other words: don't buy a flight for Boxing Day assuming you'll find a ticket at the counter. This is exactly the match where it's well worth having someone arrange your ticket for you in advance — and not at the gate.