Ed Sheeran announces gig at Hampden Park

Ed Sheeran performing at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival. Picture: Getty Images

Ed Sheeran has confirmed a date at Glasgow's Hampden Park as part of his 2018 European tour.

The Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter will follow in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Rihanna by performing at Scotland’s national stadium on 1 June 2018.

Sheeran will also perform in Cork, Belfast, Galway, Dublin, Manchester, Newcastle, London and Cardiff, before heading to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Poland.

Tickets for the 25-date tour, running from May until August, will go on sale on Saturday 8 July.

Sheeran, 26, will perform two dates at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 15 and 16.

It will be the first time the singer has performed at Wembley since 2015, when he became the first artist to play the stadium solo (with just his loop pedal and guitar as accompaniment) over three consecutive, sold out nights.

The singer hinted at more dates being added to the tour, teasing fans by tweeting: “That’s not the end of the stadium tour, watch this space.”