After waiting 25 years between our last two appearances at the Euros, Scotland now have an idea of who they’ll have to beat in order to make it two in a row.
Euro 96 saw us head to Wembley before taking on Switzerland and The Netherlands at Villa Park. Sadly, it was a familiar story in the end as Craig Brown’s men failed to make it out of the group on goal difference.
A quarter of a century later and we were finally back after France 98 proved to be our last tournament for some time. UEFA’s hairbrained scheme to host the competition across the continent did actually allow football to come home and Steve Clarke led his side out of Hampden against the Czech Republic and Croatia, either side of yet another jaunt south to face our neighbours. Unfortunately, there was to be no knock-out clash once again as the wait to break that particular hoodoo went on.
Germany lifted the trophy back in ‘96 and now play host to Euro 2024. The draw for the qualification process takes place in Frankfurt next month – October 9 – and Scotland have been confirmed as Pot 2 seeds after topping their Nations League Group. Here’s a full run down of the seedings and the potential opponents standing between us and another appearance at the Euros in just under two years’ time.
Pot 1
Netherlands
Hungary
Denmark
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Croatia
Portugal
Poland
Switzerland
Pot 2
Wales
England
Bosnia
Israel
France
Austria
Scotland
Finland
Serbia
Czech Republic
Pot 3
Sweden
Armenia
Romania
Slovenia
Ireland
Montenegro
Iceland
Albania
Ukraine
Norway
Pot 4
Turkey
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Luxembourg
Greece
Azerbaijan
Faroe Islands
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Kosovo
Pot 5
Northern Ireland
Slovakia
Cyprus
Belarus
Lithuania
Gibraltar
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Malta
Pot 6
Andorra
San Marino
Lichtenstein
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