Scotland national football team
The Scottish national football team is in addition to the English national football team is the oldest national football team in the world.
History
The first international match of a Scottish selection was also the first official international match in the history of football: the game between Scotland and led by Cuthbert Ottaway English selection, which took place on November 30, 1872 at the Hamilton Crescent in today's Glasgow's Partick ended in front of around 4,000 spectators with 0:0. The Scottish team consisted entirely of players of Queen's Park Football Club, the oldest football club in Scotland, which was founded on July 9, 1867.
Beginning in 1883, Scotland took part in the British Home Championship, which was until the end of the annual tournament in 1984 won 41 times. 1929 played the Scots for the first time against a team outside the United Kingdom; until then they had only played against teams from England, Wales and Ireland. The match against Norway ended with a 7:3 for Scotland.
Participation in World Cups
Scotland took part in eight finals, but never stood by the preliminary round and leads the ranking of leaving in the 1st round to. Scotland was the first team eliminated unbeaten at a World Cup (1974). With four finals they met Brazil. This is in addition to the encounter against France Mexico the most common pairing in the first round of World Cup history. In 1986 there were in the game against Uruguay ( Full 0-0) the fastest sending-off: José Batista of Uruguay was sent off after 56 seconds referee Joel Quiniou. Uruguay is also the enemy, against the Scotland the highest ever had to suffer defeat: 1954 lost the Scots against the then reigning world champion with 0:7.
Participation of Scotland at the European Football Championship
Scotland has so far reached the finals twice, including once at eight and one at 16 participants.
Extended squad
(Updated: December 20, 2013 Source: www.transfermarkt.de )
Most games
(As of March 26, 2013 )
Scorer
(As of March 26, 2013 )
Other well-known players
- Jim Baxter (1960-1967, 34 games, 3 goals )
- Billy Bremner (1965-1976, 54 games, 3 goals )
- Gordon Durie (1987-1998, 42 games, 7 goals)
- Barry Ferguson ( since 1998, 37 games, 2 goals)
- Kevin Gallacher (1988-2001, 53 games, 9 goals)
- Archie Gemmill (1971-1981, 43 games, 8 goals)
- Asa Hartford (1972-1982, 50 games, 5 goals)
- Colin Hendry (1993-2001, 51 games, 3 goals )
- Darren Jackson (1995-1998, 28 games, 4 goals)
- Jimmy Johnstone (1964-1974, 23 games, 4 goals)
- Joe Jordan (1973-1982, 52 games, 11 goals)
- Paul Lambert (1995-2003, 40 games, 1 goal)
- Peter Lorimer (1969-1976, 21 games, 4 goals)
- Maurice Malpas (1984-1992, 55 games)
- Gary McAllister (1990-1999, 57 games, 5 goals)
- Donald McKinlay (1922, for violation of only 2 games)
- Gordon McQueen (1974-1981, 30 games, 5 goals)
- Steven Pressley ( Since 2000, 32 games)
- Alan Rough (1976-1986, 53 games)
- Graeme Souness (1974-1986, 54 games, 4 goals)
- Gordon Strachan (1980-1992, 50 games, 5 goals)
Coach
From 1872 to 1954, the team was put together by a selection committee of the SFA.
- Andy Beattie Scotland 1954-1958
- Scotland Matt Busby 1958
- Scotland Dawson Walker 1958-1959
- Andy Beattie Scotland 1959-1960
- Scotland Ian McColl 1960-1965
- Scotland Jock Stein 1965-1966
- Scotland John Prentice 1966
- Scotland Malcolm MacDonald 1966-1967
- Scotland Bobby Brown 1967-1971
- Scotland Tommy Docherty 1971-1972
- Scotland Willie Ormond 1972-1977
- Scotland Ally McLeod 1977-1978
- Scotland Jock Stein 1978-1985
- Scotland Alex Ferguson 1985-1986
- Andy Roxburgh Scotland 1986-1993
- Scotland Craig Brown 1993-2002
- Germany Berti Vogts 2002-2004
- Scotland Walter Smith 2004-2007
- Scotland Alex McLeish 2007
- Scotland George Burley 2008-2009
- Craig Levein Scotland 2009-2012
- Scotland Gordon Strachan in 2013 -
Special
Due to the dark blue jersey color that can be easily confused with black, have contributed to the Scottish team games in which they ran aground with these jerseys, the referee red jerseys before this was also the case with other games, such as at the Football World Cup 1974 in the game against Brazil.
International Match balances
Scotland has the following balances against other national teams ( at least ten games, as of 27 March 2011).
- Green background = balance is positive (number of victories higher than that of Loss )
- Red background = negative balance (number of defeats higher than that of wins)
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