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Scotland national football team results (1940–1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7435684 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article lists the results for the Scotland national football team between 1940 and 1959. Scotland did not play any official matches between 1940 and 1945 because competitive football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War. Several unofficial internationals, some known as Victory Internationals, were played during this time.

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Scotland's score is shown first in each case.

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The public source identifies “Scotland national football team results (1940–1959)” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Scotland, national and football.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1959, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Scotland, national and football providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7435684. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1940, 1959 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scotland national football team results (1940–1959)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.