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Scotland

National team · Scotland

76 Matches
33 wins
17 draws
26 losses
105–92 Goals
+13 Difference
1.4 Scored per game
Form 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 L 29 Sep · Home Switzerland · 0:3 W 3 Oct · Away North Macedonia · 2:0

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
6 Oct UEFA Nations League Slovenia H
3 Oct UEFA Nations League North Macedonia A 2:0 W
29 Sep UEFA Nations League Switzerland H 0:3 L
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

Standing

UEFA Nations League

Group stage · League B - Group A

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Switzerland 3 3 0 0 8:1 9
2 Slovenia 3 1 1 1 3:2 4
3 Scotland 3 1 1 1 2:3 4
4 North Macedonia 3 0 0 3 0:7 0
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 76
76 Matches
33 wins
17 draws
26 losses
105–92 Goals
+13 Difference
1.4 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 76
33wins: 33 · 43% 17draws: 17 · 22% 26losses: 26 · 34%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
14 Jun · Away Haiti · 1:0
19 Jun · Home Morocco · 0:1
24 Jun · Home Brazil · 0:3
26 Sep · Away Slovenia · 0:0
29 Sep · Home Switzerland · 0:3
3 Oct · Away North Macedonia · 2:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 76 38 38
Scored 105 55 50
Conceded 92 46 46
Scored per game 1.4 1.4 1.3
Conceded per game 1.2 1.2 1.2
Difference +13 +9 +4

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Ryan Christie Midfielder 8 Matches Angus Gunn Goalkeeper 8 Matches Liam Kelly Goalkeeper 8 Matches Scott Fraser McKenna Defender 8 Matches Nathan Patterson Midfielder 8 Matches Lewis Ferguson Midfielder 8 Matches Jack William Hendry Defender 8 Matches John McGinn Midfielder 8 Matches

Squad of Scotland

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
11 Ryan Christie Midfielder 8
1 Angus Gunn Goalkeeper 8
12 GB Liam Kelly Goalkeeper 30 8
16 Scott Fraser McKenna Defender 8
22 Nathan Patterson Midfielder 8
19 Lewis Ferguson Midfielder 8
13 Jack William Hendry Defender 8
7 John McGinn Midfielder 8
3 Andrew Henry Robertson Midfielder 8
2 Aaron Buchanan Hickey Defender 24 6
17 Ben Gannon Doak Forward 6
15 John Souttar Defender 6
25 F. Curtis Forward 20 6
6 Kieran Tierney Defender 29 6
23 GB Kenneth McLean Midfielder 34 6
16 Dominic John Hyam Defender 6
4 Scott Francis McTominay Forward 6
10 Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams Forward 6
24 Anthony Ralston Defender 6
18 George Hirst Forward 6
9 Lyndon John Dykes Forward 6
5 Grant Hanley Defender 5
8 Billy Clifford Gilmour Midfielder 4
14 Lennon Miller Midfielder 4
21 Scott Bain Goalkeeper 34 4
20 GB Lawrence Shankland Forward 31 4
14 Ross Stewart Forward 4
21 Craig Gordon Goalkeeper 4
8 Tyler Fletcher Midfielder 4
5 Stephen Welsh Defender 26 2
20 Kieran Bowie Forward 2
23 GB Kristi Montgomery Midfielder 22 2
15 Joshua McPake Forward 25 2
4 GB Luis Binks Defender 25 2
6 GB Josh Thomas Doig Defender 24 2
18 GB Luke Graham Defender 22 2
10 Robert Ure Forward 2
9 Oliver Robert McBurnie Forward 2
22 Ross McCrorie Midfielder 28 2
20 Tommy Daniel John Conway Forward 2

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

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