Scotland National
Fans Nickname(s): The Tartan Army
Association: The Scottish Football Association
Confederation: UEFA (Europe)
Manager: Vacant
Assistant Coach(s): Terry Butcher & Steven Pressley
Captain: Stephen McManus [Acting Captain]
Most Caps: Kenny Dalglish (102)
Top Scorer: Kenny Dalglish & Denis Law (30)
Stadium: Hampden Park
Capacity: 52,103
FIFA Code: SCO
FIFA Ranking: 46
Highest FIFA Ranking: 13 (13th October 2007)
Lowest FIFA Ranking: 88 (March 2005)
First International:
Scotland 0-0 England
Partick, Scotland, 30th November 1872
Biggest Win:
Scotland 11-0 Ireland 
Glasgow, Scotland, 23rd February 1901
Biggest Defeat:
Uruguay 7-0 Scotland
Basel, Switzerland, 19th June 1954
Scotland Managers:
1872-1958: Selection Committee
1954: Andy Beattie
1958: Dawson Walker
1958: Matt Busby
1959-60: Andy Beattie
1960-65: Ian McColl
1965-66: Jock Stein
1966: John Prentice
1966-67: Malcolm McDonald
1967-71: Bobby Brown
1971-72: Tommy Docherty
1973-77: Willie Ormond
1977-78: Ally MacLeod
1978-85: Jock Stein
1985-86: Alex Ferguson
1986-93: Andy Roxburgh
1993-2002: Craig Brown
2002-04: Berti Vogts
2004: Tommy Burns
2004-07: Walter Smith
2007: Alex McLeish
2008-Present: George Burley
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WORLD CUP
Despite Scotland enjoying many appearances in the World Cup Finals, they have failed to qualify from the first round, however they came really close in 1978 and 1990. Scotland were only five minutes away from reaching the Second Round in the 1990 World Cup. But as ever it was our results against the teams we should have beaten that put paid to our World Cup Campaigns and we came back home early – but it is about time that we qualified for the tournament again and progressed to at least the Second Round – and if we do it would be like winning the World Cup! We have came close three times but on each occasion we have lost out on goal difference – 1974 Brazil edged us out, 1978 Holland did and 1982 the USSR qualified.
1930: Did not enter
1934: Did not enter
1938: Did not enter
1950: Withdrew
1954: Round one
1958: Round one
1962: Did not qualify
1966: Did not qualify
1970: Did not qualify
1974: Round one
1978: Round one
1982: Round one
1986: Round one
1990: Round one
1994: Did not qualify
1998: Round one
2002: Did not qualify
2006: Did not qualify
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Scotland’s first appearance in the European Championships was EURO 1992 in Sweden, when we were drawn against the Netherlands, Germany and CIS (Russia). It was a tough group, one of the toughest in the competition and like in the World Cup we have never qualified for the Second Round – however that year we came a close third one point behind Second placed Germany.
When they qualified for the next European Championships in 1996 which were held by the Auld Enemy England, and we were drawn against the Netherlands again, Switzerland and the hosts England. With John Collins to thank (courtesy of a goal line clearance aka a handball lol) we drew our first game against the Dutch, up next were England and we went down 2-0 thanks to goals from Alan Shearer and Paul Gascoigne. Captain Gary McAllister also missed a penalty with David Seaman making a jammy save with his elbow – although Crackpot magician Uri Geller later claimed he should have the credit for McAllister missing it as he willed the ball to move a little to put off the Scotland Captain. Our Final game was against Switzerland and on came super sub Ally McCoist to win the game for us with a 20 yard strike that gave us some hope of qualification, sadly Holland qualified on goal difference and we were out of another Major Finals in the First Round. 1996 was the last time Scotland made it to the European Championships after some great results in EURO 2008 Qualification we were beaten in our last two games against a youthful Georgia and the mighty Italians to condemn us to watching another major championship on the box, although we all knew that having beaten France twice we deserved to go through and not Les Bleus. At least we didn’t have to put up with the English commentators saying that England would win the tournament, since they didnae qualify as well. But they still managed to comment on 1966 every 5 seconds – especially the preverbial patriotic Englishman John Motson, he just couldn’t help himself.
1960-64: Did not enter
1968-88: Did not qualify
1992: Round one
1996: Round one
2000: Did not qualify
2004: Did not qualify
2008: Did not qualify