Scotland Football Trivia Questions

Answer: Kenny Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish scored his 30th goal for Scotland on November 14, at Hampden Park against Spain in a 3-1 victory for Scotland. Denis Law scored his 30th goal for Scotland on May 20, 1972, at Hampden Park against Nothern Ireland in a 2-0 victory for Scotland.

Answer: Frank McAvennie

McAvennie scored twice with 15 minutes to go after Kevin Gallacher had given Dundee United the lead early in the second half. McAvennie was a very popular player with the Celtic support.

Answer: Inverness Caledonian Thistle

When the Highland League was first established, all seven teams were based in or around Inverness - those being Inverness Thistle, Clachnacuddin, Caledonian, Inverness Union, Inverness Citadel, Forres Mechanics and the Cameron Highlanders. Inverness Caledonian Thistle were not established until 1994 when Inverness Thistle and Caledonian FC were elected into the Scottish Football League and joined together to become Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Answer: Peter Lovenkrands

In an exciting game, Peter Lovenkrands scored twice for Rangers against rivals Celtic. Celtic took the lead through John Hartson but Lovenkrands equalised right away for Rangers. Celtic went ahead again early in the second half with a Bobo Balde header. Rangers captain Barry Ferguson tied the game at 2-2 with a great free kick and when the game was heading into extra time, a Neil McCann cross was headed in by Lovenkrands in the 92nd minute to give Rangers the dramatic win.

Answer: Berwick

Although technically English, Berwick play in the Scottish League.

Answer: The Terrors

Although the official nickname is the Terrors, Dundee United ae also referred to as the Tangerines, due to the sandy nature of their pitch a few years ago.

Answer: Brockville Park

Falkirk played at Brockville Park, Clyde play at Broadwood Stadium, St.Mirren play at Love Street and St.Johnstone play at McDairmid Park.
Falkirk moved to Falkirk Stadium in 2003.

Answer: Gary Bollan

With Dundee United, Rangers, St. Johnstone and Livingston.

Answer: Love Street

The home of St. Mirren is where you would see this pied mascot!

Answer: Forfar Athletic

Forfar Athletic were founded in 1885 and Station Park was opened in 1888. The railway station which it is named after actually closed in 1968. The record attendance at the ground is 10,780 for a game against Rangers in 1970, but the official capacity has been reduced to 7,000 for safety reasons.

Answer: 6,000

The stadium with the biggest capacity in Britain was Celtic Park (prior to the expansion of Old Trafford), which is also known as Parkhead, and seats over 60,000!

Answer: Stirling Albion

Stirling Albion were formed in 1945 and played their home games at Annfield Park until 1993, when they moved into the new Forthbank Stadium. The ground has a similar name to that of King's Park FC, the town's previous club, who had played at Forthbank Park before the club was dissolved in 1945.

Answer: Martin O'Neill

Well done Marto for your 1st year!

Answer: Norway

In May and June 1929 Scotland played a three match tour in Europe, defeated Norway 7-3 in Bergen before going on to draw 1-1 with Germany in Berlin and beating the Netherlands 2-0 in Amsterdam. Both Norway and the Netherlands later regarded these games as unofficial matches.

All of the Scottish players in these matches played for Scottish clubs, no Anglo-Scots taking part. Only one player from Rangers participated and none from Celtic.

Answer: Cumbernauld

Clyde, known as The Bully Wee, were founded in 1877. They were previously based at Shawfield Stadium in Rutherglen (now a greyhound racing stadium), but have been at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld since 1994.

Answer: Hibs and Hearts

Hearts were founded in 1874 a year before Hibs in 1875. Rangers were established in 1873, a good 15 years before arch-rivals Celtic in 1888. Dundee burst into being in 1893, but had to wait until 1909 to be joined by near neighbours Dundee United, originally named Dundee Hibernian. Clyde was formed in 1877, and Queen's Park Scotland's oldest club, started it all off in 1867. Hearts won the first Edinburgh derby 1-0 back in 1875.

Answer: Chris Woods: England / Packie Bonner: Republic of Ireland

Back in 1990, Chris Woods of Rangers and Pat Bonner of Celtic faced each other for England and the Republic of Ireland, respectively. The match was a European Championship qualifier, played in front of a crowd of 45,000 which ended in a 1-1 draw. Incidentally, Frank Haffey of Celtic wasn't an Australian. He only emigrated there a few years after he conceded nine goals playing for Scotland when they los 9-3 to England in 1961.

Answer: George Best

Best made his home debut for Hibs against Partick Thistle, and more than doubled the gate to 22,000. The Hibs won 2-1.

Answer: Dumbarton

Dumbarton and Rangers finished the 1890-91 season with equal points and, as goal difference wasn't used to separate teams in those early days, a playoff was held to decide the champions. This game ended in a draw so, for the only time in SFL history, there were co-champions.

Answer: Euro '92

Scotland first qualified for Euro '92 which was held in Sweden. Scotland's group consisted of Germany, Netherlands and the Commonwealth of Independant States (CIS). CIS qualified for the tournament under the banner of the USSR which broke up shortly before the tournament began.

Answer: Gary Stevens

Gary Stevens had a short back pass intercepted by Joe Miller, who fired the ball past Rangers goalkeeper Chris Woods to give Celtic a 1-0 lead. The game finished 1-0 with very few chances at either end.

Answer: Aberdeen

Inverness Thistle were the first winners of the Highland League in 1893/94 and later Clachnacuddin, Inverness Thistle and Caledonian also tasted success before Aberdeen 'A' - the reserve side of the Aberdeen team playing in Division One in the Scottish Football League - won the Highland League in 1912/13.

Answer: Celtic 3 Hibernian 0

Celtic won the 2001 Tennents Scottish Cup Final with goals from Jackie McNamara and Henrik Larsson (2).

Answer: Gretna

Gretna were previously playing in the English lower leagues.