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The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international association football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. It is the joint-oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, Scotland's opponents in what is now recognised as the world's first international football match, which took place at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow in November 1872. [1]
Between the resumption of international football after the First World War in 1920 and the start of the Second World War in 1939, Scotland played 75 international matches, resulting in 46 victories, 12 draws and 17 defeats. Each year Scotland played in the British Home Championship, a round-robin tournament also involving England, Wales and Ireland. [2] Of the 20 tournaments played during this period, Scotland won 7 outright and 4 jointly. [2] One of Scotland's most famous victories came in 1928, when the Wembley Wizards defeated their rivals England 5–1. The team drew large crowds, with the home matches against England in 1931, 1933 and 1937 all setting world record attendances. [3] The match in April 1937 recorded an official attendance of 149,415, which still stands as the record attendance for a European international match. [3]
Scotland started to play matches against opposition from beyond the British Isles between the wars, playing ad-hoc friendly matches against Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. The first FIFA World Cup was played in 1930, but none of the Home Nations, including Scotland, participated in the tournament before the Second World War. This was because their associations had been excluded from FIFA due to a disagreement regarding the status of amateur players. [4] The four associations, including Scotland, returned to the FIFA fold after the Second World War. [4]
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Scotland's score is shown first in each case.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | WPCT |
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Austria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 0.00 |
Czechoslovakia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 100.00 |
England | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 27 | +8 | 55.00 |
France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 100.00 |
Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 50.00 |
Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 100.00 |
Ireland | 20 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 46 | 14 | +32 | 75.00 |
Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0.00 |
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 100.00 |
Norway | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 100.00 |
Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 100.00 |
Wales | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 50.00 |
Total | 75 | 46 | 12 | 17 | 160 | 95 | +65 | 61.33 |
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The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international association football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. It is the joint-oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, Scotland's opponents in what is now recognised as the world's first international football match, which took place at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow in November 1872. Prior to this, a series of matches had been played between teams representing the two countries, but the Scottish team was drawn almost entirely from players based in and around London and these games are now not regarded as full international matches. The lack of involvement by players from Scottish clubs in these matches led to some controversy, which was resolved when The Football Association arranged to send a team to play in Glasgow, where the English players took on a Scotland team composed entirely of players from the Queen's Park club.
This article lists the results for the Scotland national football team between 1940 and 1959. Scotland did not play any official matches between 1940 and 1945 because competitive football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War. Several unofficial internationals, some known as Victory Internationals, were played during this time.
This article lists the results for the Scotland national football team between 1980 and 1999.
This article lists the results for the Scotland national football team between 2000 and 2019.
This article lists the results for the Scotland national football team between 1960 and 1979.
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David Cochrane Mathers was a Scottish footballer, who played as a left-half for Partick Thistle and the Scotland national team.
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The Wales national football team represents Wales in international association football and is governed by the Football Association of Wales (FAW).
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The Wales national football team represents Wales in international association football and is governed by the Football Association of Wales (FAW). Between 1980 and 1999 the side played 133 matches, the majority of which came against other European national teams. The British Home Championship, which had been held every year outside wartime since 1894, was disbanded in 1984. The decision to end the competition in its 100th year was blamed largely on low attendance figures, football hooliganism and England and Scotland's desire to play other opponents. Wales came within one match of winning the tournament in the 1980–81 season. They needed only to beat Northern Ireland, but the final game was never played after players refused to travel following an escalation of The Troubles in Ireland. Northern Ireland won the last tournament, held in the 1983–84 season, on goal difference as all four sides finished on equal points.
The Wales national football team represents Wales in international association football and is governed by the Football Association of Wales (FAW). Between 1900 and 1914 the side played 45 matches, all against the other national teams of the Home Nations in the British Home Championship. Having struggled in the competition prior to 1900, the Welsh side started the 20th century with considerably more success. They recorded two second-place finishes and winning their first Championship in the 1906–07 tournament in which they won their opening two matches before drawing with England in their final fixture, while Wales' Lot Jones was the competition's top goalscorer.
From 1870 to the present day, the Scotland national football team have played various matches that are not accorded the status of official (FIFA) internationals by the governing body, the Scottish Football Association. These include early matches against England prior to the first-ever official international in 1872, wartime fixtures between 1914–1919 and 1939–1946 when official competitions were suspended, overseas tour matches played by a Scotland XI of varying strength and status, and others as specified.
149,415. Scotland v England, 1937 – All-time record gate for a European international match.