Launched in 2017, the festival attracts tens of thousands of fans each summer. It showcases a mix of international headliners and popular UK artists, spanning genres such as indie, rock, pop, hip-hop, and electronic music. With its city-centre location, energetic crowds, and vibrant atmosphere, TRNSMT is known for bringing live music, Scottish identity, and festival excitement together in one iconic setting.

On November 18, the Scotland men’s football team won against Denmark to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, hosted jointly between the USA, Canada, and Mexico next summer. It is the first time Scotland will be competing in the tournament since 1998.

There is a potential clash between one of the festival’s headline slots and Scotland’s second group game against Morocco on June 19. According to a report by the BBC, a headliner would typically play from 9:30pm – 11pm. The match with Morocco begins at 11pm, meaning there may be some overlap between that day’s headliner, Richard Ashcroft, and the game’s kick-off.

Festival director, DF Concert’s Geoff Ellis, said to BBC News, “Obviously it’s very early days as the World Cup and TRNSMT are still over six months away. As you would expect there is flexibility in timings and we will be ensuring that music fans can enjoy the TRNSMT line up as well as watching Scotland’s second game on the road to bringing the World Cup home to the birthplace of football.”

Sources have said that promoters are interested in showing the game at Glasgow Green once the day’s acts had finished. The success of UK teams at international football tournaments has seen some clash with summer music festivals, with Glastonbury contending with numerous England games over the years.

In 2014, festival organiser Emily Eavis said they couldn’t show that year’s World Cup matches because it wasn’t practical, and the event is about music, not football. Last summer, the Worthy Farm event repeated its decision for the 2024 European Championships.

England’s men’s team faced Slovakia in the round of 16 on the Sunday of that year’s festival, and festival-goers reportedly went to extreme lengths to catch the action. Last year at Glastonbury, former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson brought a television along to watch England’s football team play against Slovakia in the European Championships.

Following the comedian’s passing on Monday due to what is now believed to have been an “acute cardiac event“, the song that he recorded ahead of the previous World Cup has rocketed up the charts thanks to a number of social media campaigns. Jon Morter, the man behind the campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to the Christmas number one spot in 2009, is one of the key figures behind an effort aimed at launching Mayall’s track back up the charts.

The former Young Ones and Bottom star recorded this track which features Mayall delivering lines from Shakespeare’s Henry V. More information about the campaign, including places to download the track from, can be found here.