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League football followed when the Scottish Football League was founded in 1890, with Dumbarton and Rangers sharing the first title. The Scottish Football League remained the highest division of the Scottish football league system until 1998, when the Scottish Premier League was founded. The Scottish Football League also added a second major cup ...
Scotland and England are the oldest national football teams in the world. [9] Teams representing the two sides first competed at the Oval in five matches between 1870 and 1872. The two countries contested the first official international football match , at Hamilton Crescent in Partick , Scotland, on 30 November 1872.
All-time Scottish Football Club Directory 1829–2009, Brian McColl, via Scottish Football Historical Archive (archived version, 2015) This page was last edited on 3 ...
Scottish football clubs have participated in European association football competitions since 1955, when Hibernian entered the inaugural European Cup. Scottish sides have won four UEFA competitions between them, with Celtic becoming the first side from the British Isles to be European champions by winning the 1966–67 European Cup.
Rank Name Caps Goals Scotland career Clubs [note 1]; 1 Kenny Dalglish: 102 30 1971–1986 Celtic, Liverpool: 2 Jim Leighton: 91 0 1982–1998 Aberdeen, Manchester United, Hibernian
While the pots are based on qualifying form, and thus a useful gauge of team quality, we will go by Fifa’s world rankings to determine the best and worst case scenarios for Clarke and his team ...
As of June 2023, Scotland's men's team are ranked as the 30th best national football team in the FIFA World Rankings. [5] Their highest ranking was 14th, in 2007, and lowest was 86th, in 2004. The national team last attended the World Cup in France in 1998 , but finished last in their group stage after defeats to runners-up Brazil and Morocco .
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is an association football league in Scotland. It comprises the top four divisions of the Scottish football league system. The league was established in 2013, following a merger of the Scottish Premier League (SPL; tier one) and the Scottish Football League (SFL; tiers two to four). The Scottish ...