Scotland national football team home stadium in Glasgow. This venue was used for four Scotland matches between then and 1876. The next venue to be used was the first Hampden Park, home of Queen's Park. It hosted the first ever Scottish Cup Final in 1874 and a Scotland v England match in 1878. Queen's Park left this site in 1883 because of a proposal to extend the Cathcart District Railway line through the site. Queen's Park then moved to a second Hampden Park, which hosted internationals between 1885 and 1890. The first match hosted outside Glasgow was at Hibernian Park in Edinburgh on 10 March 1888.
England v Scotland representative football matches (1870–72) between England and Scotland". Many of the players in Scotland did not play to the FA's rules at the time, inhibiting the possibility of a truly representative match between the two countries. Eventually, the FA decided in its minutes of 3 October 1872 note that: The challenge was eventually taken up by Queen's Park and this match, in 1872 is the earliest international football match recognised by FIFA, though at the time it was considered as a continuation of the previous internationals. In March 1873 the Scottish Football Association was created to support the coordination of football in Scotland, taking