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15 August – Scottish Television launches Scotsport Results to provide Scottish viewers with a round-up of the day's Scottish football. It is broadcast on Saturday teatimes at around 5pm during the football season. 22 August – The first broadcast of the BBC's football television show Match of the Day. It is shown on the recently launched BBC ...
The Scottish Football Association was formed in 1873, and the first official competition in Scotland commenced that same year, the Scottish Cup. The game in Scotland progressed further with the founding of the Scottish Football League in 1890, and the official sanctioning of professionalism in 1893. Queens Park's insistence on remaining amateur ...
The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. [2] There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in the Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season.
The Scottish football champions are the winners of the highest league in Scottish football, namely the Scottish Football League (SFL) from 1890 until 1998, the Scottish Premier League (SPL) from 1998 until 2013 and the Scottish Premiership thereafter. The SFL was established in 1890, initially as an amateur league until professionalism in ...
Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer). The ball could be carried by hand, and teams were sometimes of dozens of players or more, with scrummaging involved. Some of these games are still played, notably in Kirkwall and Jedburgh – see Ba game .
14 March – Television becomes available in Scotland for the first time following the switching on of the BBC service on VHF ch3 from the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station. [1] 31 August – At 5:30 pm, Scottish Television starts broadcasting on VHF ch10 from the newly built transmitter at Black Hill, [2] close to the BBC's mast at Kirk o ...
Association football (Scots: fitbaa, Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country. There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing by hand, and despite bearing the name "football" bear little ...
1950s. 1952. 14 March – Television becomes available in Scotland for the first time following the switching on of the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station. 17 August – The Kirk o'Shotts transmitter begins broadcasting at full power after its main high-powered transmitters are switched on. 1953.