🇲🇦🇲🇱 Morocco drew 1-1 with Mali in AFCON tonight to end their World record 19 consecutive wins and that was the first goal Bono has apparently conceded in 918 minutes. They look a tougher prospect than Brazil next year.

UEFA has confirmed the Euro 2028 qualifying group stage draw will take place in Belfast on Sunday 6th December 2026. Scotland has another draw to look forward to much sooner in the year - the Nations League group phase draw on Thursday 12th February.

🇲🇦🇰🇲 Scotland's World Cup opponents, Morocco, kicked off the African Cup of Nations finals in Rabat with a 2-0 win over Comoros. Ayoub El Kaabi scored Morocco's second with a McTominay-esque overhead kick.

A bit of World Cup planning ahead today.

What a draw! 😍

Scott McTominay has been named as Best Overall Footballer for Season 2024/25 at the Italian Footballers' Association awards.

FIFA has published information today on the release of World Cup fixtures this Saturday at 5p.m. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 time: www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

German sports programme, Sportschau, is reporting that World Cup fixtures will be finalised the day after the draw (Saturday 6th December) www.sportschau.de/fussball/fif...

Still no news on the rumour that the 12 European WCQ group winners (including 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) will be assigned separate groups by FIFA in the World Cup draw. Blick🇨🇭 followed up on this with FIFA only to be told it's not commenting on rumours as the draw procedure will be officially announced in the coming days.

Scotland has risen to 36th place in the latest FIFA rankings, the last to be published before the World Cup Draw.

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An utterly unbelievable night at Hampden. A match of the ages.

A spirited fightback in Piraeus, although it wasn't quite enough to secure the draw. At least Denmark dropped points at home against Belarus, setting up a massive winner-takes-all game at Hampden this Tuesday night for a place at the World Cup!

🇬🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Greece vs Scotland. Scotland in need of a draw or a win tonight here in Piraeus.

UEFA release Euro 2028 finals schedule www.uefa.com/euro2028/new...

UEFA has confirmed that the 2026/2027 UEFA Nations League Draw will take place directly after the 50th Ordinary UEFA Congress in Brussels on Thursday 12th February 2026 at 1800 to 1845 CET. Scotland in League B this time around.

FIFA has confirmed that the European play-off draw for thr World Cup will take place on Thursday 20th November at 1300 CET. The FIFA rankings release will be rescheduled to the day before to accommodate this. inside.fifa.com/organisation...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷 The SFA has been fined 10,000 Swiss Francs by FIFA for "failure to comply with and implement existing safety rules and take every safety precaution and invasion or attempted invasion of the field of play" during the Scotland-Greece game last month.

🇩🇰 Denmark released details of their squad earlier today for their final World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Scotland.

Scotland has been drawn in Group B4 of the Women's European Qualifiers for the World Cup in Brazil 2027. Scotland will face Belgium, Israel and Luxembourg in the group phase with matches between March and June 2026 #SWNT

Italian media outlets have indicated the UEFA World Cup play-off draw will take place on Friday 21st November in Zürich at a time TBC. This has yet to be confirmed on FIFA/UEFA websites.

🇬🇷 Greece has confirmed its squad for their final World Cup qualifiers against Scotland and Belarus.

Scotland has been placed into Pot 2 of League B for the Women's World Cup 2027 (Brazil) European Qualifers ahead of the draw on Tuesday 4th November at 1300 CET Pot 1: 🇧🇪🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇭 Pot 2:🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇿🇫🇮NIR Pot 3:🇦🇱🇹🇷🇸🇰🇮🇱 Pot 4:🇱🇺🇲🇹🇲🇪🇱🇻 Group stage takes place between March and June 2026 #SWNT

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇭 Scotland 3-4 Switzerland FT in tonight's friendly at East End Park, Dunfermline #SWNT

The head of the Israeli FA will wait until at least until the end of 2025 with the request to UEFA Exco to return to hosting international matches. Currently several football associations including those from Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Slovenia are refusing to come to Israel [IsraelHayom]

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🇲🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Women's away friendly in Casablanca on Friday 24th October has been announced today by the FRMF to be played at the Stade Père Jégo, contrary to the SFA's announcement earlier this month which indicated Stade Larbi Zaouli. This suggests a possible venue change ahead of Friday's game.

🇦🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Azerbaijan U21 3-3 Scotland U21. Three red cards in an entertaining game at the Dalğa Arena in Baku #SCO21s.

BACTA in BAKU

Scotland 2-1 Belarus. Six points from six this international break and after Denmark's win over Greece, a World Cup play-off secured as a minimum. Two disappointing performances though and much improvement required for the final two games.

Not the most enjoyable 3-1 win at Hampden tonight against the Greeks, but I'll take it. Puts us in a great position to guarantee at least a play-off. Hopefully a much better performance for the Belarus game on Sunday.

🇬🇷 Meanwhile the Hellenic Football Federation received a fine of 5,000 CHF for use of laser pointers in the Belarus qualifier (a problem that plagued the Greece-Scotland game in March) and Greece and Denmark received fines for throwing of objects during last month's 3-0 win by Denmark over Greece.

🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SFA has received a 5,000 CHF fine from FIFA following "misconduct of players and officials" in Scotland's opening World Cup Qualifier in Denmark last month. Scotland breached Article 14.5 of FIFA's Disciplinary Code after receiving 5 yellow cards during the game.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇭Scotland Women will face Switzerland in an international friendly at East End Park, Dunfermline on 28th October with a 1930 kick-off according to an announcement from the Swiss FA today. www.football.ch/sfv/national...

Meanwhile the RFU has claimed the Scottish Football Association 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 along with 13 other national associations (🇵🇱🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰🇧🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇸)are reportedly against the lifting of the ban on Russian teams with Poland and the Baltic countries most vociferously against [2/2]

A Russian Football Union source reported last week that UEFA will discuss the lifting of the ban on Russian teams at the next UEFA Congress in Brussels on 12th February 2026. Russia report that 7 countries (🇧🇬🇷🇸🇬🇷🇧🇦🇭🇺🇰🇿🇦🇿) are supportive of Russia, although the Azerbaijan FA has denied this claim [1/2].

🇧🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 International Matchday 2 of Scotland's World Cup Qualification here in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary as Scotland take on Belarus.

A 0-0 draw in Copenhagen to start the World Cup qualification campaign. Fair result and sets things up nicely for the Belarus game in Zalaegerszeg on Monday.

The dreichest of matchday mornings in Copenhagen ahead of Scotland's opening World Cup 2026 Qualifier against Denmark at Parken tonight. 🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #DENSCO

🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷 Following Steve Clarke's squad selection this morning, Denmark has confirmed its squad for the forthcoming World Cup Qualifiers against Scotland and Greece.

Kieron Bowie and Grant Hanley have both been named in the Scotland squad ahead of the first two 2026 World Cup Qualifiers next month! 🥬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

McTominay and De Bruyne shine for Napoli in Serie A opener reut.rs/4oRFBwD

🇦🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UEFA has confirmed the venue for Scotland U21s' away qualifier in Azerbaijan on Tuesday 14th October as the Dalga Arena in Baku. @bacta5.bsky.social will be in attendance #SCO21s

🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Danish FA had confirmed that all tickets have now been sold for the opening World Cup Qualifier between Denmark and Scotland on 5th September. Denmark will announce the squad for the game on Tuesday 26th August [DBU]

18-year-old Lennon Miller is unveiled as he becomes the latest Scotland international to play for an Italian team 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 Serie A side Udinese have signed Miller for £4.7m from Motherwell, who tonight confirmed the deal and said: "Go and smash it, Lennon" 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘜𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘰/𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮