At midnight on the 14th, BTS announced news of a new world tour through a poster titled “BTS WORLD TOUR” on the global superfan platform Weverse. The tour will kick off in Goyang, South кσяєα, before traveling across North αмєяι¢α, Europe, South αмєяι¢α, and Asia. As of now, a total of 79 shows across 34 cities have been put on sale.

This marks the largest number of shows ever staged by a K-pop artist on a single tour. The scale is expected to expand even further as schedules for נαραи and the Middle East are set to be added in the near future. Notably, this is BTS’s first large-scale tour in approximately four years since “BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE” concluded in Las Vegas in 2022.

Immediately after the schedule was announced, Kim Yoo-hyuk, an analyst at IBK Investment & Securities, commented: "Based on the 43 dates where venues have currently been revealed (Goyang, Tokyo, North/South αмєяι¢α), the estimated attendance is approximately 2.8 million, or 65,000 per show. Considering that additional dates (נαραи, Middle East, etc.) are yet to be announced, we forecast 3.5 million attendees in 2026 and a total of approximately 4.5 million for the entire tour."

Meanwhile, fans received what is believed to be fairly reliable information indicating that the two London shows will be held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which has a sports capacity of around 62,000 seats, but accommodates only about 30,000–40,000 seats for concerts. Compared to the 65,000 attendees per night projected by industry experts, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium clearly falls short of meeting fan demand as well as the stature of global superstars BTS.

Specifically, someone inside also told that BTS had originally planned to perform at Wembley Stadium, but due to a miscommunication during coordination with Live Nation, the tour’s promoter, the plan did not materialize. In addition, rumors have surfaced that BTS had once considered holding as many as four nights in London, rather than the two currently being reported.

These rumors quickly spread throughout the fan community, leaving many ARMYs ѕнσ¢кed—particularly given that BTS made history by selling out Wembley Stadium in 2019. According to the BBC, on June 1, 2019, more than 60,000 fans gathered to watch the seven members sing and dance through 24 songs over the course of two hours. Tickets for the concert sold out within 90 minutes of going on sale in March of that year. Now, if capacity is indeed limited to 30,000–40,000 seats, competition for tickets is expected to be fiercer than ever!

Many fans have expressed disappointment, arguing that the management company may have underestimated the group’s stature. They believe that both BTS and ARMY deserve preparations that are more thorough and commensurate with the group’s position as a global leader. As a result, debate surrounding the London tour stop continues to intensify in recent days:

- so bts are doing tottenham stadium, which is a smaller capacity than wembley, and only two dates? when they did wembley with a bigger capacity 7 fυ¢кing years ago? why tf have we been given only 2 dates in a smaller fυ¢кing stadium

- as if getting wembley tickets in 2019 wasn’t hard enough, now hybe want to put bts in tottenham hotspur stadium which holds 30k less people

- i went for beyonce a couple years back and leaving was the worst we just sat in a pub for 2 hours until it calmed down and the owners called us a taxi bc it was my mum on her own with two teenage girls

- Apparently Live Nation fυ¢кed up and instead giving bts Wembley they gave it to someone else

- Selecting a 30k capacity venue after 4 years of waiting is a joke. We went from selling out Wembley (60k+) to fιgнтing over crumbs. Good luck to everyone

- I'm not going to this one but I went to the one for stray kids, they literally shut down the closest tube station and I had to walk 15 mins to the next one at night in the dark since I was alone. ESPECIALLY if you're not a local, please be careful!

- It doesn’t make sense to downsize when 7 years ago they sold out 2 dates at wembley, especially when they know people have anticipated their come back to europe

- Only 30k seats?! Is HYBE serious right now? That’s literally half of Wembley! How are millions of us supposed to fit in there?

- 30k vs 60k at Wembley... the math is NOT mathing, HYBE! You’re choosing a tiny stadium when the demand is 100x higher

- It feels like BigHit underestimated BTS’s demand in London. For a group of this scale, that’s hard to accept

- Did they just αѕѕume they could magically find soмєтнing bigger later? The planning here is really frustrating

- BTS has already sold out Wembley before, so this decision makes no sense. Whether it’s underestimating demand or issues in the venue booking process, the result is still a letdown for fans