The Country | The Road to FRANCE98 | The Team | Honours | Coach

---

Land area:	78 772 kmē
Population:	5 300 000
Capital:	Edinburgh
Main cities:	Glasgow, Aberdeen
System of government:	Constitutional Monarchy
Head of state:	Prime Minister : Tony Blair
Currency:	Sterling Pound
Time difference:	1 h  ahead of Paris

---

31 July 96	Austria - Scotland	0-0
05 October 96	Latvia - Scotland	0-2
10 November 96	Scotland - Sweden	1-0
11 February 97	Estonia - Scotland	0-0
29 March 97	Scotland - Estonia	2-0
02 April 97	Scotland - Austria	2-0
30 April /97	Sweden - Scotland	2-1
06 June 97	Belarus - Scotland	0-1
06 September 97	Scotland - Belarus	4-1
11 October 97	Scotland - Latvia	2-0

23 points
15 goals scored
4 goals conceded

---

Goalkeeper:	GORAM (age 33, 54 caps)
Defenders:	CALDERWOOD (age 32, 23 caps) HENDRY (age 31, 28 caps) BOYD (age 31, 50 caps)
Mid-field:	BURLEY (age 26, 22 caps) LAMBERT (age 28, 9 caps) MC KINLAY (age 32, 18 caps) COLLINS (age 29, 18 caps) MC ALLISTER (age 32, 55 caps)
Striker:	GALLACHER (age 33, 8 caps) JACKSON (age 31, 17 caps)

Number of players used during the qualifying rounds: 28

National team colours: dark blue, white and red

FIFA ranking (on 16 October 1997):  25th

---

• World Cup: 7 participations (1954, 1958, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986 and 1990)

---

Craig BROWN
It's an astonishing fact, for some, that Scotland never fails to make it through to the finals of major international competitions. And then just as surely fails to make it any further than the first round. Craig Brown's team play a typically physical British game and rely on the experience of the likes of Collins, MacAlister, Lambert, Gallagher and the goalkeeper Leighton, who is almost forty! Despite these old hands, it is also true that only three players have already played in the World Cup finals and Craig Brown will have to find an effective combination of youth and maturity if his side is to make an impact.

 

Photo Copyright AllSports, all reproduction rights retained