This year, One Direction will embark on their biggest tour EVER. 

Back in May last year, Harry, Niall, Liam, Louis and Zayn made their biggest announcement to date – their 2014 worldwide stadium tour. A gazillion girls erupted with excitement. Literally.

Making every Directioner’s dreams come true, the fivesome will travel through the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada and South America from April-October this year as they celebrate their third album Midnight Memories.

The lucky fans who will get to catch the very first glimpse of them on tour are in Bogota, Colombia, where it all kicks off on Friday 25 April. They will then play another 67 dates all over the world, until they sadly bring it to an end on Sunday 5 October at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium. Boo hoo.

I’m sure our disappointment and heartache will be repaired by the expected release of their fourth album in November though, so it’s not all bad.

Being the world’s biggest (and hottest) boyband at the moment, the tour has a lot to live up to but with promises of amazing fireworks, a huge stage and suchlike we don’t think that will be a problem.

Another thing that promises to be huge on the tour, is the number of hysterical fangirls that will be waiting for Hazza and co outside every venue, hoping to get a quick selfie with them. So huge in fact, that the boys are going all out to secure their safety and have hired a whopping 100 bodyguards for the duration of their tour.

One Direction fans wait patiently (Picture: Getty Images)

One of the most important parts of the tour, is who 1D will be sharing the backstage with. Although our little hearts broke in two when we heard we wouldn’t be getting a Little Mix support act, they were quickly mended upon hearing that hot new Aussie boy band and 1D’s bezzies 5 Seconds Of Summer will open their shows, as they did on their Take Me Home tour last year.

As if that wasn’t enough, they’re giving us another boyband to swoon over in the form of McBusted, who will support them for one night only on June 21, at their show in Paris. So many boy bands, so many screaming girls…

Want to get your face featured on 1D’s big screen? Then look no further than their brand new Twitter question segment. The most creative, funny and exciting Instagram video questions will be answered by them live on stage. Twitter questions have been known to cause chaos on the 1D stage before, resulting in human pyramids being formed and ‘the worm’ taking place one too many times…so that should be interesting.

The setlist for the shows is yet to be announced, but we can expect to hear a nice big chunk of the Midnight Memories tracklist, and a few oldies too. We’ll stick a bet on them rapping Fresh Prince Of Bel Air at some point too, it usually happens.

With less than a month to go until they kick off their tour, the excitement in 1D world could not be more prominent. The same probably can’t be said for the parents who will be forced to attend the concert, though. Quick tip if this is you – take ear plugs.