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Scotland

National team · Scotland

73 Matches
32 wins
16 draws
25 losses
103–89 Goals
+14 Difference
1.4 Scored per game
Form L 31 Mar · Home Ivory Coast · 0:1 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

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

All matches
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
31 Mar Friendlies Ivory Coast H 0:1 L

Standing

Euro Championship - Qualification

Group stage · Group A

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Spain 8 7 0 1 25:5 21
2 Scotland 8 5 2 1 17:8 17
3 Norway 8 3 2 3 14:12 11
4 Georgia 8 2 2 4 12:18 8
5 Cyprus 8 0 0 8 3:28 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 73
73 Matches
32 wins
16 draws
25 losses
103–89 Goals
+14 Difference
1.4 Scored per game
Season results matches counted: 73
32wins: 32 · 43% 16draws: 16 · 21% 25losses: 25 · 34%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
31 Mar · Home Ivory Coast · 0:1
30 May · Home Curaçao · 4:1
6 Jun · Away Bolivia · 4:0
14 Jun · Away Haiti · 1:0
19 Jun · Home Morocco · 0:1
24 Jun · Home Brazil · 0:3
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 73 37 36
Scored 103 55 48
Conceded 89 43 46
Scored per game 1.4 1.5 1.3
Conceded per game 1.2 1.2 1.3
Difference +14 +12 +2

Key players

by appearances over the last year
F. Curtis Forward 6 Matches Scott Fraser McKenna Defender 6 Matches Angus Gunn Goalkeeper 6 Matches Andrew Henry Robertson Defender 6 Matches Scott Francis McTominay Forward 6 Matches Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams Forward 6 Matches Ryan Christie Midfielder 6 Matches Jack William Hendry Defender 6 Matches

Squad of Scotland

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Matches
25 F. Curtis Forward 6
26 Scott Fraser McKenna Defender 6
1 Angus Gunn Goalkeeper 6
3 Andrew Henry Robertson Defender 6
4 Scott Francis McTominay Forward 6
10 Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams Forward 6
11 Ryan Christie Midfielder 6
13 Jack William Hendry Defender 6
19 Lewis Ferguson Midfielder 6
24 Anthony Ralston Defender 6
15 John Souttar Defender 6
22 Nathan Patterson Defender 6
7 John McGinn Midfielder 6
18 George Hirst Forward 6
9 Lyndon John Dykes Forward 6
12 Liam Kelly Goalkeeper 6
6 Kieran Tierney Defender 6
23 Kenneth McLean Midfielder 6
16 Dominic John Hyam Defender 6
5 Grant Hanley Defender 5
21 Craig Gordon Goalkeeper 4
20 Lawrence Shankland Forward 4
2 Aaron Buchanan Hickey Defender 4
17 Ben Gannon Doak Midfielder 4
8 Tyler Fletcher Midfielder 4
14 Ross Stewart Forward 4
21 Scott Bain Goalkeeper 2
14 Lennon Miller Midfielder 2
20 Tommy Daniel John Conway Forward 2
8 Billy Clifford Gilmour Midfielder 2
22 Ross McCrorie Midfielder 2
24 Andy Irving Midfielder 1
22 Max Johnston Defender 1

Fixtures of Scotland

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