Scotland national amateur football team that year, when the FA abolished the distinction between amateurism and professionalism in domestic football. The Scotland amateur team predominantly played its home matches at Hampden Park, Glasgow – a ground also home to the full Scotland national team and Queen's Park. Matches outside Glasgow were mainly played in Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Dumfries. Scotland national amateur football team The Scotland national amateur football team was the amateur representative team for Scotland at football. It was formed in 1926 and continued until 1974. Following the adoption of professionalism in 1893, the Scotland national football team continued to field both professional and
England–Scotland football rivalry of June 2017, the teams have played 114 matches; England have won 48, Scotland 41, and there have been 25 draws. The rules of association football had been formalised and set down by The Football Association in England in 1863. By 1870 C. W. Alcock, Secretary of The Football Association, issued public challenges in various Scottish newspapers, including the "Glasgow Herald", to Scottish players to play an international match against England. One of the few public responses that Alcock received from Scotland stated that "devotees of the 'association' rules will find no foemen worthy of their steel in Scotland". Alcock