Football World Cup 1998 / Scotland

This article covers the Scottish national football team at the 1998 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Austria	17: 4	25th
2	Scotland	15: 3	23
3	Sweden	16: 9	21st
4th	Latvia	10:14	10
5	Estonia	4:16	4th
6th	Belarus	5:21	4th

Austria	-	Scotland	0-0
Latvia	-	Scotland	0: 2
Scotland	-	Sweden	1-0
Estonia	-	Scotland	0-0
Scotland	-	Estonia	2-0
Scotland	-	Austria	2-0
Sweden	-	Scotland	2: 1
Belarus	-	Scotland	0: 1
Scotland	-	Belarus	4: 1
Scotland	-	Latvia	2-0

Scotland automatically qualified as the best, second-placed team.

Scottish contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Jim Leighton	Aberdeen FC	07/24/1958	3	0	0	0
12	Neil Sullivan	Wimbledon FC	02/24/1970	0	0	0	0
21st	Jonathan Gould	Celtic Glasgow	07/18/1968	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Jackie McNamara	Celtic Glasgow	October 24, 1973	2	0	0	0
3	Tommy Boyd	Celtic Glasgow	11/24/1965	3	0	0	0
4th	Colin Calderwood	Tottenham Hotspur	01/20/1965	2	0	0	0
5	Colin Hendry	Blackburn Rovers	December 07, 1965	3	0	0	0
6th	Tosh McKinlay	Celtic Glasgow	December 3rd, 1964	2	0	0	0
16	David Weir	Heart of Midlothian	05/10/1970	2	0	0	0
18th	Matt Elliott	Leicester City	11/01/1968	0	0	0	0
19th	Derek Whyte	Aberdeen FC	08/31/1968	0	0	0	0
22nd	Christian Dailly	Derby County	23.10.1973	3	0	0	0
midfield player
8th	Craig Burley	Celtic Glasgow	09/24/1971	3	1	0	1
11	John Collins	AS Monaco	01/31/1968	3	1	0	0
13	Simon Donnelly	Celtic Glasgow	December 01, 1974	0	0	0	0
14th	Paul Lambert	Celtic Glasgow	08/07/1969	3	0	0	0
15th	Scot Gemmill	Nottingham Forest	01/02/1971	0	0	0	0
17th	Billy McKinlay	Blackburn Rovers	04/22/1969	2	0	0	0
striker
7th	Kevin Gallacher	Blackburn Rovers	11/23/1966	3	0	1	0
9	Gordon Durie	Glasgow Rangers	December 06, 1965	3	0	1	0
10	Darren Jackson	Celtic Glasgow	07/25/1966	2	0	2	0
20th	Scott Booth	FC Utrecht	December 16, 1971	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Craig Brown		07/01/1940

Scottish team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	6: 3	6th
2	Norway	5: 4	5
3	Morocco	5: 5	4th
4th	Scotland	2: 6	1

• Brazil - Scotland 2: 1 (1: 1)

Stadium: Stade de France ( Saint-Denis )

Spectators: 80,000

Referee: José María García Aranda ( Spain )

Goals: 1-0 César Sampaio (4th), 1: 1 John Collins (38th) EM , 2-1 Tommy Boyd (73rd) ET

• Scotland - Norway 1: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Parc Lescure ( Bordeaux )

Spectators: 31,800

Referee: László Vagner ( Hungary )

Goals: 0: 1 Håvard Flo (46.), 1: 1 Craig Burley (66.)

• Scotland - Morocco 0: 3 (0: 1)

Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard ( Saint-Étienne )

Spectators: 30,600

Referee: Ali Bujsaim ( UAE )

Goals: 0: 1 Salaheddine Bassir (22nd), 0: 2 Abdeljalil Hadda (46th), 0: 3 Salaheddine Bassir (85th)