Football World Cup 1954 / Scotland

This article covers the Scottish national football team at the 1954 World Cup .

qualification

The group was also the British Home Championship from 1953–1954.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	11: 4	6th
2	Scotland	8: 8	3
3	Northern Ireland	4: 7	2
3	Wales	5: 9	1

Northern Ireland	-	Scotland	1: 3
Scotland	-	Wales	3: 3
Scotland	-	England	2: 4

Scottish contingent

The Scottish Federation allowed only 13 players to travel to the tournament, Anderson, Henderson, Mathers, Wilson, Binning, Combe, Copland and McMillan stayed at home on call. Originally part of the 13-man squad, Johnstone left injured and was replaced by Hamilton.

No.	Surname	Club at the beginning of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
01	Fred Martin	Aberdeen FC	05/13/1929	2	0	0
14th	John Anderson	Leicester City	December 8, 1929	0	0	0
Defender
02	Willie Cunningham	Preston North End	02/22/1925	2	0	0
03	Jock Aird	Burnley FC	02/18/1926	2	0	0
04th	Bobby Evans	Celtic Glasgow	07/16/1927	0	0	0
05	Tommy Docherty	Preston North End	08/24/1928	2	0	0
18th	Alex Wilson	Portsmouth FC	October 29, 1933	2	0	0
midfield player
06th	Jimmy Davidson	Partick Thistle	11/08/1925	2	0	0
07th	Doug Cowie	Dundee FC	05/01/1926	2	0	0
13	Willie Ormond	Hibernian Edinburgh	02/23/1927	2	0	0
17th	David Mathers	Partick Thistle	10/23/1931	0	0	0
20th	Bobby Combe	Hibernian Edinburgh	01/29/1924	0	0	0
22nd	Ian McMillan	Airdrieonians FC	03/18/1931	0	0	0
striker
08th	John MacKenzie	Partick Thistle	09/04/1925	2	0	0
09	George Hamilton	Aberdeen FC	December 07, 1917	0	0	0
10	Allan Brown	Blackpool FC	October 12, 1926	2	0	0
11	Neil Mochan	Celtic Glasgow	04/06/1927	2	0	0
12	Willie Fernie	Celtic Glasgow	11/22/1928	2	0	0
15th	Bobby Johnstone	Hibernian Edinburgh	07.09.1929	0	0	0
16	Jackie Henderson	Portsmouth FC	January 17, 1932	0	0	0
19th	Jimmy Binning	Queen of the South	July 25, 1927	0	0	0
21st	Ernie Copland	Raith Rovers	04/15/1927	0	0	0
Trainer
	Andy Beattie		08/11/1913

Scottish team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Austria	6-0	4th
2	Uruguay	9-0	4th
3	Czechoslovakia	0: 7	0
4th	Scotland	0: 8	0

• Austria - Scotland 1: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Hardturm ( Zurich )

Spectators: 30,000

Referee: Franconia ( Belgium )

Goals: 1-0 Probst (33rd)

• Uruguay - Scotland 7-0 (2-0)

Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium ( Basel )

Spectators: 43,000

Referee: Orlandini ( Italy )

Goals: 1-0 Borges (17th), 2-0 Míguez (30th), 3-0 Borges (47th), 4-0 Abbadie (54th), 5-0 Borges (57th), 6-0 Míguez (83.), Abbadie (85.) 7-0

The reigning world champion Uruguay was able to assert itself as expected in Group III as second. 2-0 against the Czechoslovaks and a 7-0 against the overwhelmed Scots were enough for the group victory. Even the strong Austrians left nothing to be desired. Scotland were defeated 1-0 and Czechoslovakia 5-0. As group winners Austria was naturally also in the quarter-finals.