Scotland national football team
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| Association | Scottish Football Association |
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| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Gordon Strachan |
| Captain | Darren Fletcher |
| Most caps | Kenny Dalglish (102) |
| Top scorer |
Kenny Dalglish (30) Denis Law (30) |
| Home stadium | Hampden Park |
| FIFA code | SCO |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 67  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 13(October 2007) |
| Lowest | 88(March 2005) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 49 (23 January 2017) |
| Highest | 1(1876–92, 1904) |
| Lowest | 64(May 2005) |
| First international | |
 Scotland 0–0 England  (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) |
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| Biggest win | |
Scotland 11–0 Ireland  (Glasgow, Scotland; 23 February 1901) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Uruguay 7–0 Scotland (Basel, Switzerland; 19 June 1954) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1954) |
| Best result | 9th, 1974 |
| European Championship | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1992) |
| Best result | Last 8, 1992 |
The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. It competes in the two major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. Scotland, as a constituent country of the United Kingdom, is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and therefore the national team does not compete in the Olympic Games. The majority of Scotland's home matches are played at the national stadium, Hampden Park.
Scotland is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872. Scotland has a long-standing rivalry with England, whom they played annually from 1872 until 1989. The teams have met only six times since then, most recently in November 2016.
Scotland have qualified for the FIFA World Cup on eight occasions and the UEFA European Championship twice, but have never progressed beyond the first group stage of a finals tournament. The team have achieved some noteworthy results, such as beating the 1966 FIFA World Cup winners England 3–2 at Wembley Stadium in 1967. Archie Gemmill scored what has been described as one of the greatest World Cup goals ever in a 3–2 win during the 1978 World Cup against the Netherlands, who reached the final of the tournament. In their qualifying group for UEFA Euro 2008, Scotland defeated 2006 World Cup runners-up France 1–0 in both fixtures.
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