FRANCE98 – Scotland Team Page

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.