Scottish national football team

The title of this article is ambiguous. See Scottish National Football Team (disambiguation) for additional meanings .

Scotland
Scotland
Alba [ ˈaləpə ] ( gäl. )

Nickname (s)	Bravehearts
Association	Scottish Football Association
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Steve Clarke
captain	Andrew Robertson
Record scorer	Kenny Dalglish , Denis Law (30)
Record player	Kenny Dalglish (102)
Home stadium	Hampden Park
FIFA code	SCO
FIFA rank	50th (1422 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
778 games 367 wins 167 draws 244 defeats
statistics
First international match Scotland 0-0 England ( Partick , Scotland ; November 30, 1872 )
Biggest win Scotland 11-0 Ireland ( Glasgow , Scotland ; 23 February 1901 )
Biggest defeat Uruguay 7-0 Scotland ( Basel , Switzerland ; June 19, 1954 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	8 ( first : 1954 )
Best results	Preliminary round (1954, 1958, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998)
European Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 1992 )
Best results	Preliminary round (1992, 1996)
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Scottish national soccer team represents the British part of Scotland and is, alongside the English national soccer team, the oldest national soccer team in the world. It reports to the Scottish Football Association , the leading football association in Scotland.

history

The first international match of a Scottish selection was also the first official international match in the history of football : The game between a Scottish and an English selection led by Cuthbert Ottaway , which took place on November 30, 1872 at Hamilton Crescent in what is now Partick , part of Glasgow , ended In front of around 4,000 spectators with 0-0. The Scottish team consisted exclusively of players from Queen's Park Football Club , the oldest football club in Scotland, which was founded on July 9, 1867.

From 1883 Scotland participated in the British Home Championship , which had been won 41 times by the end of the annual tournament in 1984. In 1929 the Scots played for the first time against a team outside the United Kingdom ; until then they had only played against the teams from England, Wales and Ireland . The game against Norway ended 7-3 for Scotland.

Participation in soccer world championships

→ Main article : Scottish national football team / World Cups

Scotland took part in eight finals, but never made it through the preliminary round and thus leads the ranking of the elimination in the first round . Scotland were the first team to go undefeated at a World Cup (1974). They met Brazil in four finals . Alongside the encounter between France and Mexico, this is the most frequent pairing in the preliminary round in World Cup history. 1986 saw the fastest dismissal in the game against Uruguay (final score 0-0): José Batista from Uruguay was sent off after 56 seconds by referee Joël Quiniou . Uruguay is also the opponent against whom Scotland suffered their biggest defeat to date: In 1954 the Scots lost 7-0 to the then reigning world champions.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated
1934	Italy	not participated
1938	France	not participated
1950	Brazil	withdrawn				In qualifying , the Scots took second place behind England , but did not want to take part in the finals in Brazil as second in the group
1954	Switzerland	Preliminary round	Uruguay , Austria	15th	Andy Beattie	Biggest defeat
1958	Sweden	Preliminary round	France , Yugoslavia , Paraguay	14th	Dawson Walker
1962	Chile	not qualified				In qualifying at the Czechoslovakia failed
1966	England	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy failed
1970	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification of Germany failed
1974	Germany	Preliminary round	Zaire , Brazil , Yugoslavia	9.	Willie Ormond	Unbeaten third in the group with the same number of points as Yugoslavia and Brazil, but worse goal difference
1978	Argentina	Preliminary round	Peru , Iran , Netherlands	11.	Ally MacLeod
1982	Spain	Preliminary round	New Zealand , Brazil , USSR	15th	Jock stone
1986	Mexico	Preliminary round	Denmark , Germany , Uruguay	19th	Alex Ferguson	During the last qualifying game against Wales , the Scottish national coach Jock Stein suffered a heart attack from which he died.
1990	Italy	Preliminary round	Costa Rica , Sweden , Brazil	18th	Andy Roxburgh
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy and Switzerland failed
1998	France	Preliminary round	Brazil , Norway , Morocco	27.	Craig Brown
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualification to Croatia and Belgium failed
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy and Norway failed, which failed in the play-offs also
2010	South Africa	not qualified				Failed in the qualification to the Netherlands and again to Norway , which failed again as the worst second in the group
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification , Scotland failed to Belgium , Croatia , Macedonia , Serbia and Wales and was on March 26, 2013 as the first European team that could no longer qualify.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In the qualification of England and Slovakia failed

Participation of Scotland in the European Football Championship

→ Main article : Scottish national football team / European championships

Scotland have reached the finals twice so far, once with eight and once with 16 participants. In the last three qualifications, the Scots met the reigning world champion.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1960	France	not participated
1964	Spain	not participated
1968	Italy	not qualified			In the qualification , which was held at the same time as the British Home Championship , failed at the later third England .
1972	Belgium	not qualified			In qualifying later in the Third Belgium failed.
1976	Yugoslavia	not qualified			In the qualification of Spain failed, but that also did not reach the final round.
1980	Italy	not qualified			In the qualification failed again on the later European runner-up Belgium .
1984	France	not qualified			Again in the qualification failed to Vice European Champion Belgium .
1988	BR Germany	not qualified			In the qualification of Ireland failed.
1992	Sweden	Preliminary round	Germany , CIS , Netherlands	-	After defeats against defending champions Netherlands and world champions Germany as well as a victory against the CIS, retired as third in the group.
1996	England	Preliminary round	England , Netherlands , Switzerland	-	After a win against Switzerland, a draw against the Netherlands and a defeat against hosts England, they were eliminated as third in the group
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			Failed in the relegation games to England .
2004	Portugal	not qualified			Failed in the relegation games to the Netherlands .
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification to the finalists of the 2006 FIFA World Cup France and Italy failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification of defending champion and world champion Spain and the Czech Republic failed.
2016	France	not qualified			In the qualification to world champion Germany , Poland and Ireland failed
2021	Europe				With Hampden Park, Scotland provides a venue for three group matches and a round of 16, but like all other UEFA members must qualify for the European Championship. The Scots failed in direct qualification to Belgium and Russia , but still have the chance to qualify via the play-offs of the group winners of the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League .

Squad of the Scottish National Football Team

Team manager Steve Clarke nominated the following squad for the UEFA Nations League matches against Israel on September 4 and against the Czech Republic on September 7 :

• Performance data as of November 19, 2019 (after the game against Kazakhstan )

Surname	society	Date of birth	International matches	Gates	Last use
goal
David Marshall	Derby County	05.03.1985	34	0	November 19, 2019
Robby McCrorie	Livingston FC	03/18/1998	0	0
Jon McLaughlin	Glasgow Rangers	09/09/1987	2	0	October 13, 2019
Defense
Liam Cooper	Leeds United	08/30/1991	2	0	11/16/2019
Declan Gallagher	Motherwell FC	02/13/1991	2	0	November 19, 2019
Scott McKenna	Aberdeen FC	11/12/1996	14th	0	November 19, 2019
Stephen O'Donnell	Motherwell FC	05/11/1992	11	0	09.09.2019
Liam Palmer	Sheffield Wednesday	09/19/1991	5	0	November 19, 2019
Andrew Robertson	Liverpool FC	03/11/1994	34	3	11/16/2019
Greg Taylor	Celtic Glasgow	05/11/1997	3	0	November 19, 2019
Kieran Tierney	Arsenal FC	06/05/1997	12	0	March 24, 2019
midfield
Stuart Armstrong	Southampton FC	03/30/1992	19th	2	November 19, 2019
Ryan Christie	Celtic Glasgow	02/22/1995	11	1	November 19, 2019
John Fleck	Sheffield United	08/24/1991	2	0	November 19, 2019
Ryan Jack	Glasgow Rangers	02/27/1992	4th	0	November 19, 2019
John McGinn	Aston Villa	October 18, 1994	21st	7th	November 19, 2019
Callum McGregor	Celtic Glasgow	06/14/1993	19th	0	November 19, 2019
Kenny McLean	Norwich City	01/08/1992	10	1	10/10/2019
Scott McTominay	Manchester United	December 8th, 1996	12	0	11/16/2019
attack
Oliver Burke	West Bromwich Albion	04/07/1997	11	1	November 19, 2019
Lyndon Dykes	Queens Park Rangers	07/10/1995	0	0
James Forrest	Celtic Glasgow	07/07/1991	34	5	November 19, 2019
Oliver McBurnie	Sheffield United	06/04/1996	9	0	11/16/2019
Lawrence Shankland	Dundee United	08/10/1995	2	1	November 19, 2019

Players also deployed or nominated in the last 12 months:

Surname	society	Date of birth	International matches	Gates	Last nomination
goal
Craig MacGillivray	Portsmouth FC	01/12/1993	0	0	November 19, 2019
Defense
Michael Devlin	Aberdeen FC	10/03/1993	3	0	November 19, 2019
Ryan Porteous	Hibernian Edinburgh	03/25/1999	0	0	November 19, 2019
Stuart Findlay	FC Kilmarnock	09/14/1995	1	1	October 13, 2019
Charlie Mulgrew	Blackburn Rovers	03/06/1986	44	3	October 13, 2019
Grant Hanley	Norwich City	11/20/1991	29	1	10/10/2019
David Bates	Cercle Bruges	05/10/1996	4th	0	09.09.2019
midfield
Lewis Morgan	Inter Miami	09/30/1996	2	0	November 19, 2019
Graeme Shinnie	Derby County	08/04/1991	6th	0	November 19, 2019
Robert Snodgrass	West Ham United	07.09.1987	28	7th	October 13, 2019
attack
Eamonn Brophy	FC Kilmarnock	03/10/1996	1	0	November 19, 2019
Steven Naismith	Heart of Midlothian	09/14/1986	51	10	November 19, 2019
Ryan Fraser	no club	02/24/1994	11	1	11/16/2019
Johnny Russell	Sporting Kansas City	April 8, 1990	14th	1	October 13, 2019
Matt Phillips	West Bromwich Albion	03/13/1991	16	1	09.09.2019

Record player

Of the most recent players, Steven Naismith has played the most international matches with 51 games. (As of November 19, 2019)

Record player

Games	player	Period	Gates	World Cup games	EM games
102	Kenny Dalglish	1972-1987	30th	8th	0
091	Jim Leighton	1983-1999	00	9	0
080	Darren Fletcher	2003–	05	0	0
077	Alex McLeish	1980-1993	00	5	0
076	Paul McStay	1983-1997	09	4th	3
072	Tommy Boyd	1990-2001	01	3	4th
069	Kenny Miller	2001-2013	18th	0	0
069	David Weir	1997-2010	01	2	0
067	Christian Dailly	1997-2008	05	3	0
065	Willie Miller	1975-1990	01	5	0
062	Danny McGrain	1973-1982	00	5	0
061	Richard Gough	1983-1993	06th	4th	3
061	Ally McCoist	1986-1998	19th	3	5

Record goal scorers

The top active goal scorers are Steven Fletcher and Steven Naismith with ten goals.

Record player

Gates	Games	Quota	player	Period	World Cup goals	EM goals
30th	055	0.55	Denis Law	1958-1974	0
30th	102	0.29	Kenny Dalglish	1972-1987	2
23	020th	1.15	Hugh Gallacher †	1924-1935
22nd	038	0.58	Lawrie Reilly †	1949-1957
19th	061	0.31	Ally McCoist	1986-1998	0	1
18th	069	0.26	Kenny Miller	2001-2013
15th	011	1.36	Robert Hamilton †	1899-1911
14th	038	0.37	Mo Johnston	1984-1990	1
14th	048	0.29	James McFadden	2002-2010
13	013	1.00	Robert Smyth McColl †	1896-1908
13	012	1.08	Andrew Wilson †	1920-1923

Sources: eu-football.info: Players for Scotland, rsssf.com: Scotland - Record International Players (as of November 17, 2018)

Other well-known players

• Jim Baxter (1960-1967, 34 games, 3 goals)
• Billy Bremner (1965–1976, 54 games, 3 goals)
• Gordon Durie (1987-1998, 42 games, 7 goals)
• Barry Ferguson (Since 1998, 37 games, 2 goals)
• Kevin Gallacher (1988–2001, 53 games, 9 goals)
• Archie Gemmill (1971–1981, 43 games, 8 goals)
• Asa Hartford (1972–1982, 50 games, 5 goals)
• Colin Hendry (1993-2001, 51 games, 3 goals)
• Darren Jackson (1995-1998, 28 games, 4 goals)
• Jimmy Johnstone (1964–1974, 23 games, 4 goals)
• Joe Jordan (1973–1982, 52 games, 11 goals)
• Paul Lambert (1995-2003, 40 games, 1 goal)
• Peter Lorimer (1969–1976, 21 games, 4 goals)
• Maurice Malpas (1984–1992, 55 games)
• Gary McAllister (1990-1999, 57 games, 5 goals)
• Donald McKinlay (1922, only 2 games due to injury)
• Gordon McQueen (1974-1981, 30 games, 5 goals)
• Steven Pressley (since 2000, 32 games)
• Alan Rough (1976–1986, 53 games)
• Graeme Souness (1974–1986, 54 games, 4 goals)
• Gordon Strachan (1980-1992, 50 games, 5 goals)

Trainer

From 1872 to 1954 the team was put together by a selection committee of the SFA.

• Andy Beattie (1954-1958)
• Matt Busby (1958)
• Dawson Walker (1958-1959)
• Andy Beattie (1959-1960)
• Ian McColl (1960-1965)
• Jock Stein (1965-1966)
• John Prentice (1966)
• Malky MacDonald (1966-1967)
• Bobby Brown (1967-1971)
• Tommy Docherty (1971-1972)
• Willie Ormond (1972-1977)
• Ally McLeod (1977-1978)
• Jock Stein (1978–1985 †)
• Alex Ferguson (1985-1986)
• Andy Roxburgh (1986-1993)
• Craig Brown (1993-2002)
• Berti Vogts (2002-2004)
• Walter Smith (2004-2007)
• Alex McLeish (2007)
• George Burley (2008-2009)
• Craig Levein (2009-2012)
• Gordon Strachan (2013-2017)
• Alex McLeish (2018-2019)
• Steve Clarke (2019-)

Special

Due to the dark blue jersey color, which can easily be confused with black, the referees wore red jerseys at games of the Scottish team in which they came up with these jerseys, before this was also the case at other games. B. at the football World Cup 1974 when playing against Brazil .

International match records

Scotland has the following records against other national teams (at least ten games as of November 19, 2019).

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Goal difference	Goal difference	Important encounters
Belgium	020th	04th	03	13	21:41	-20	European Championship qualification 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 2020; World Cup qualification 2002, 2014
Brazil	010	00	02	08th	3:16	-13	World Cup preliminary round 1974, 1982, 1990, 1998
Denmark	016	10	00	06th	20:12	+8	European Championship qualification 1972, 1976, World Cup qualification 1974, World Cup preliminary round 1986
Germany	017th	04th	05	08th	22:26	-4	World Cup qualification 1970, World Cup preliminary round 1986, European Championship preliminary round 1992, European Championship qualification 2004, 2016
England	114	41	25th	48	174: 203	-29	World Cup qualification 1950, 1954, European Championship qualification 1968, 2000, European Championship preliminary round 1996
France	016	08th	00	08th	15:23	-8th	World Cup preliminary round 1958, World Cup qualification 1990, European Championship qualification 2008
Ireland	055	43	06th	06th	185: 47	+138	World Cup qualification 1950
Ireland	011	04th	03	04th	12: 9	+3	World Cup qualification 1962, European Championship qualification 1988, 2016
Italy	011	01	02	08th	4:19	-15	World Cup qualification 1966, 1994, 2006, European Championship qualification 2008
Lithuania	010	06th	03	01	14: 4	+10	European Championship qualification 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, World Cup qualification 2018
Netherlands	019th	06th	04th	09	15:26	–11	World Cup preliminary round 1978, EURO preliminary round 1992, 1996, European Championship qualification 2004, World Cup qualification 2010
Northern Ireland	040	20th	11	09	73:34	+39	World Cup qualification 1982
Norway	018th	09	06th	03	34:21	+13	European Championship qualification 1980, World Cup qualification 1990, 2006, 2010, World Cup preliminary round 1998
Austria	020th	06th	06th	08th	25:33	-8th	World Cup preliminary round 1954, World Cup qualification 1970, 1998, European Championship qualification 1980
Poland	010	02	05	03	13:14	-1	World Cup qualification 1966, European Championship qualification 2016
Portugal	015th	04th	03	08th	14:21	–7	European Championship qualification 1972, 1980, World Cup qualification 1982, 1994
Sweden	012	05	01	06th	14:19	-5	World Cup qualification 1982, 1998, World Cup preliminary round 1990,
Switzerland	016	08th	03	05	26:24	+2	World Cup qualification 1958, 1994, European Championship qualification 1976, 1984, 1992, European Championship preliminary round 1996
Spain	013	03	04th	06th	20:23	-3	World Cup qualification 1958, 1986, European Championship qualification 1976, 2012
CSSR	010	05	01	04th	18:16	+2	World Cup qualification 1962, 1974, 1978
Wales	107	61	23	23	243: 124	+119	World Cup qualification 1950, 1954, 1978, European Championship qualification 1968

• green background = positive balance sheet (number of wins higher than that of defeats)
• yellow background = balance balanced
• red background = negative balance (number of defeats higher than that of victories)

Notes on the table:

1. ↑ In its statistics, the SFA separates the games against Germany (1930–1938 and from 1991) and West Germany (1954–1990).
2. ↑ ^{a b} The SFA does not differentiate between Ireland and Northern Ireland in its statistics, all games are listed under Northern Ireland. In the FIFA statistics from October 20, 1923, and in the RSSSF statistics from February 26, 1921, a distinction is made between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

See also

• List of international matches for the Scottish national football team
• Scottish National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
• Scottish National Football Team (U-20 men)
• Scottish National Football Team (U-21 Men)

Web links

Commons : Scottish National Football Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Scottish Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
3. ↑ 1978 World Cup . BBC Scotland. Retrieved May 15, 2007.
4. ↑ scottishfa.co.uk: Steve Clarke names squad for Nations League fixtures
5. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Scotland - Record International Players
6. ↑ The Scottish FA also counted 1 goal in the game on September 3, 2004 against Spain, which was abandoned in the 60th minute due to floodlight damage and according to other sources the goal was an own goal by the Spaniard Rubén Baraja . ( scottishfa.co: "Match Details SPAIN 1 - 1 SCOTLAND" , eu-football.info: "Spain - Scotland 1: 1" , weltfussball.de: "Spain vs Scotland 1: 1 canceled" , sefutbol.com: " 3/09/2004 España - Escocia “  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  
7. ↑ Scotland national football team individual records and stats ( English ) eu-football.info. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
8. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Scotland - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. August 21, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.