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Boxing national side
Scotland
National team · Scotland
74
Matches
32
wins
17
draws
25
losses
103–89
Goals
+14
Difference
1.4
Scored per game
Form
W
30 May · Home Curaçao · 4:1
W
6 Jun · Away Bolivia · 4:0
W
14 Jun · Away Haiti · 1:0
L
19 Jun · Home Morocco · 0:1
L
24 Jun · Home Brazil · 0:3
D
26 Sep · Away Slovenia · 0:0
Scotland's clearest mark on the international game came in the British Home Championship, the annual contest with England, Wales and Northern Ireland that ran for most of the twentieth century. Scotland won it outright 24 times and shared the title a further 17 times, a record built over decades of fixtures rather than settled in a single final.
The rivalry with England goes back further than that competition. The two sides met at Hamilton Crescent on 30 November 1872 and drew 0-0, the first international football match in history. A 3-2 win over England at Wembley in 1967 was celebrated at the time as making Scotland, half-jokingly, "unofficial world champions". Eleven years later, Archie Gemmill scored a goal against the Netherlands in a 3-2 win at the 1978 World Cup that is still the country's best-remembered piece of individual skill.
Home games are played at Hampden Park in Glasgow, which holds 51,866. Kenny Dalglish set the appearance record with 102 caps and shares the scoring record, 30 goals, with Denis Law. Silverware has occasionally come from further afield too: Scotland won the Kirin Cup in Japan in 2006.
None of it has carried the side past the group stage of a major tournament. Nine World Cups and four European Championships have all ended at that first hurdle, and qualification failed outright for 2014, 2016 and 2018. The heaviest defeat at a Euros came as recently as 2024, a 1-5 loss to Germany.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 26 Sep | UEFA Nations League |
Slovenia
A
|
0:0 | D |
| 24 Jun | World Cup |
Brazil
H
|
0:3 | L |
| 19 Jun | World Cup |
Morocco
H
|
0:1 | L |
| 14 Jun | World Cup |
Haiti
A
|
1:0 | W |
| 6 Jun | Friendlies |
Bolivia
A
|
4:0 | W |
| 30 May | Friendlies |
Curaçao
H
|
4:1 | W |
Standing
UEFA Nations LeagueGroup stage · Group 1
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Malta
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2:1 | 3 |
| 2 |
 France
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1:0 | 3 |
| 2 |
 Scotland
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0:0 | 1 |
| 2 |
 Albania
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2:0 | 3 |
| 2 |
 Gibraltar
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 74
74
Matches
32
wins
17
draws
25
losses
103–89
Goals
+14
Difference
1.4
Scored per game
wins
draws
losses
scored — above the line
conceded — below the line
| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 74 | 37 | 37 |
| Scored | 103 | 55 | 48 |
| Conceded | 89 | 43 | 46 |
| Scored per game | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Conceded per game | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Difference | +14 | +12 | +2 |
Key players
by appearances over the last yearSquad of Scotland
by appearances over the last year| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |  Andrew Henry Robertson |
Midfielder | 7 | ||
| 1 |  Angus Gunn |
Goalkeeper | 7 | ||
| 12 |  |
 Liam Kelly |
Goalkeeper | 30 | 7 |
| 7 |  John McGinn |
Midfielder | 7 | ||
| 22 |  Nathan Patterson |
Defender | 7 | ||
| 19 |  Lewis Ferguson |
Midfielder | 7 | ||
| 13 |  Jack William Hendry |
Defender | 7 | ||
| 11 |  Ryan Christie |
Midfielder | 7 | ||
| 16 |  Scott Fraser McKenna |
Defender | 7 | ||
| 25 |  F. Curtis |
Forward | 20 | 6 | |
| 24 |  Anthony Ralston |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 10 |  Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 9 |  Lyndon John Dykes |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 16 |  Dominic John Hyam |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 18 |  George Hirst |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 23 | |
 Kenneth McLean |
Midfielder | 34 | 6 |
| 4 |  Scott Francis McTominay |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 6 |  Kieran Tierney |
Defender | 29 | 6 | |
| 15 |  John Souttar |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 17 |  Ben Gannon Doak |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 2 |  Aaron Buchanan Hickey |
Midfielder | 24 | 5 | |
| 5 |  Grant Hanley |
Defender | 5 | ||
| 21 |  Craig Gordon |
Goalkeeper | 4 | ||
| 20 | |
 Lawrence Shankland |
Forward | 31 | 4 |
| 8 |  Tyler Fletcher |
Midfielder | 4 | ||
| 14 |  Ross Stewart |
Forward | 4 | ||
| 8 |  Billy Clifford Gilmour |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 14 |  Lennon Miller |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 21 |  Scott Bain |
Goalkeeper | 34 | 3 | |
| 20 |  Tommy Daniel John Conway |
Forward | 2 | ||
| 22 |  Ross McCrorie |
Midfielder | 28 | 2 | |
| 9 |  Oliver Robert McBurnie |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 10 |  Robert Ure |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 6 |  Josh Thomas Doig |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 18 | |
 Luke Graham |
Defender | 22 | 1 |
| 4 | |
 Luis Binks |
Defender | 25 | 1 |
| 5 |  Stephen Welsh |
Defender | 26 | 1 | |
| 23 | |
 Kristi Montgomery |
Midfielder | 22 | 1 |
| 15 |  Joshua McPake |
Forward | 25 | 1 | |
| 20 |  Kieran Bowie |
Forward | 1 |
Fixtures of Scotland
-
29 Sep · 19:45
Switzerland
H
UEFA Nations League
-
3 Oct · 19:45
North Macedonia
A
UEFA Nations League
Honours of Scotland
- British Home Championship 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1935, 1939, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977 40
- Kirin Cup Soccer 2006 1
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