Boston city chiefs have released their official figures as World Cup hosts and showed that the thirsty Tartan Army helped drive an incredible 179 per cent increase in bar takings from last year.
An estimated 50,000 Scots took over the Massachusetts city in June for a week as Scotland played Haiti and Morocco there.
The Tartan Army were widely praised for their behaviour in Boston and were warmly welcomed by locals after it was reported that several bars were drunk dry, before they headed south to Miami for the final game against Brazil.
And the Scots provided an astonishing boost to the local economy after Boston released their business data for the tournament. It showed £61.5 million was generated in spending in Boston, with the pubs and bars of the city being the main beneficiaries.
Official figures showed that on the day when Scotland played Morocco, bar takings were up by 179 per cent on 2025 levels. And the average bar spending during the week when Scottish fans visited was up 86 per cent on last year.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said: "Just for the record, the Tartan Army did go to other cities as well and I saw at least two videos of members of the Tartan Army in other cities lamenting that Boston was better!
"I think it was our sense of the welcome for everyone, our sense of fun here, that we are just as willing to go toe to toe with some of the shenanigans in a safe and community-supported way."
And the Tartan Army's visit looks set to leave a lasting legacy on Boston - they are actively trying to extend bar closing hours to 3am and allow public drinking areas... as they did during the World Cup.
Wu added: "We want to have the looser alcohol restrictions that were allowed during the World Cup, with the aim of later bar hours and public drinking zones made permanent in Boston.
"We are going to continue to gather the specific numbers and evidence and both quantitative and qualitative data from our businesses so we can prove how much it’s helped Boston and other cities. We would like for this to be permanent."
