Scotland national football team home stadium Park in 2020. Scotland national football team home stadium Hampden Park in Glasgow is the primary home stadium for the Scotland national football team. This has been the case since 1906, soon after it opened. The present site of Hampden Park is the third location to bear that name and both the previous locations also hosted Scotland games. Scotland have also played many of their home games in other stadiums throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Scotland hosted the first official international match, a goalless draw against England on 30 November 1872, at the Hamilton
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