Athletics national side

Scotland U19

National team · United Kingdom

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24 Matches

7 wins

5 draws

12 losses

35–40 Goals

−5 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Form D L L L D W

The scale is institutional, not competitive: the team belongs to the Scottish Football Association, which fields it as a staging post between age-group football and the full national side, not as a club chasing its own following.

The record has a clear high point. In 1982 Scotland won the UEFA European Under-18 Championship, beating Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final — the age band that would later become the Under-19 Championship. Two runs to a final since then, in 2006 and 2015, both ended against Spain, 2-1 and 2-0. Further back, third-place finishes in the UEFA Youth Tournament in 1963, 1964 and 1969 mark the years before the competition took its current shape.

What the team is chiefly for shows in the names that pass through it. John McGinn and Ryan Fraser both wore the shirt before becoming fixtures for the senior side, and Grant Hanley's route from this age group into a full Scotland career follows the same pattern that defines the team's purpose: not silverware, but a proving ground.

The shirt stays blue, the shorts and socks white, unchanged from the senior team, and no nickname has ever attached itself to the age group separately. Everything about the setup points back to where it started — a Youth Tournament in 1948 that Scotland entered from the beginning, before it carried the name it holds now.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

31 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Poland U19 H	3:0	W
28 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Republic of Ireland U19 A	3:3	D
25 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Italy U19 A	0:3	L
18 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	England U19 H	0:4	L
15 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Lithuania U19 H	1:2	L
12 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Latvia U19 A	2:2	D