Scotland national amateur football team
| Association |
Scottish Football Association (1926–1949, 1954–1974), Scottish Amateur Football Association (1949–1954) |
|---|---|
| Most caps | Billy Neil (45) |
| Top scorer | Donald Ford, Peter Buchanan (11) |
| FIFA code | SCO |
| First international | |
England Amateurs  1–4 Scotland Amateurs  (Filbert Street, Leicester; 18 December 1926) |
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| Biggest win | |
Scotland Amateurs 6–0 Ireland Amateurs  (Celtic Park, Glasgow; 28 January 1933) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
| England Amateurs 8–3 Scotland Amateurs (Champion Hill, Dulwich; 11 March 1939) |
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The Scotland national amateur football team was the amateur representative team for Scotland at football. It was formed in 1926 and continued until 1974.
Following the adoption of professionalism in 1893, the Scotland national football team continued to field both professional and amateur players, but by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the number of amateurs winning international caps was in decline. Between the formation of the SAFA in 1909 and 1926, the SFA turned down requests from the SAFA, the FA and the FFF to stage international matches featuring a Scottish team made up of purely amateur players. One reason was that a Scottish amateur national team featuring no players from wholly amateur Scottish League First Division club Queen's Park would not be in the national interest, due to the prospective Scotland amateur matches clashing with Queen's Park's. In August 1926, the SAFA announced that the first Scotland amateur international match would take place against their English counterparts on 18 December that year at Filbert Street, with the team's selection being determined by the SFA. In front of a 10,000 crowd, Scotland won the match 4–1, courtesy of two goals from Laurie McBain and one each from George Jessiman and James Crawford.
Between 1926 and 1939, Scottish League First Division club Queen's Park provided the majority of the players for the Scotland amateur team, with many of the players winning full international caps as well. With England as the biggest opponent and crowd draw amongst the Home Nations, the strongest possible team was selected and often included an all-Queen's Park XI. In the same period, Scotland played regular friendly matches against the Wales and Ireland amateur representative teams and the matches were used to experiment with lineups featuring amateur players from other Scottish League clubs, in addition to amateurs playing in the Highland League, East of Scotland League, the Scottish Junior leagues, for Scottish Universities and in England. Friendly matches were played versus France and Denmark in 1932.
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