Scotland Women

The side has carried the thistle and navy blue ever since, though the senior team has never settled on a nickname the way the men's side has "the Thistles" reserved for a development squad.

Five years after that first win, Scotland beat England 8–5 in the deciding match of 1998 to take the Six Nations title and the Grand Slam with it — still the only such title in the team's history. Scotland has not beaten them since 1999, and the meeting is still known as the Auld Enemy match regardless of the scoreline. At the 2025 Rugby World Cup, that scoreline was 40–8 in the quarter-final, Scotland's earliest World Cup they'd reached that stage since co-hosting the tournament in 1994, when they finished fifth.

Donna Kennedy played 115 times for the side. The team has trained and played out of the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh since 2021, a ground built for lower attendances than the one it drew when Scotland moved a standalone fixture against England to Murrayfield in April 2026.

Nearly 30,000 people were there.