⚽ The Kick-Off - Tuesday 3rd March 2026
Aaron Hickey out injured until after March international window. SWNT begin World Cup qualifying this evening. Mark Reynolds retires.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #262: Dundee recorded back-to-back 10-0 wins in 1947. They beat Alloa Athletic away, then Dunfermline Athletic at home.
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
🤝 Women’s Under-23 International Friendly
Scotland 0 - 4 Netherlands
NEWS
You know it has been a slow news day when Gordon Duncan’s Russell Martin anecdote on Open Goal’s Hot Wings challenge made the Scottish football news.
A short email today, given the lack of actual news.
🤕 Brentford have revealed that Aaron Hickey will return to action after the March international break. Hickey hurt his hamstring last week against Brighton & Hove Albion.
There has been no injury update on Ben Gannon-Doak ahead of the friendlies against Japan and the Ivory Coast.
This BBC article provides a rundown of all the current injury predicaments facing Steve Clarke. - BBC
🏴 Scotland Women’s National Team starts their World Cup qualification campaign tonight away to Luxembourg.
Amy Canavan and the BBC have put together this guide to World Cup qualification.
🔚 Former Motherwell, Dundee United, and Aberdeen defender Mark Reynolds has called time on his playing career.
The 38-year-old announced his retirement following Banks o’Dee’s Highland League Cup Semi-Final defeat on Saturday.
Reynolds also had spells at Sheffield Wednesday and Cove Rangers before finishing his career at Banks o’Dee. - Paul Third, The Press & Journal
🏟️ More than 1000 people attended Scotland Under-23’s 4-0 defeat to the Netherlands in Inverness last night. A record attendance for a women’s football game in the Highland capital. - Andrew Henderson, Inverness Courier
🙌 If you missed it at the weekend, The Scottish Football Kick-Off celebrated turning one-year-old.
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 102
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
➡️ FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualifying
Luxembourg v Scotland (6.30pm - live on BBC iPlayer)
➡️ William Hill Premiership
Dundee United v St Mirren (7.45pm)
➡️ William Hill Championship
Arbroath v Ayr United (7.45pm)
Dunfermline Athletic v Ross County (7.45pm)
➡️ William Hill League One
Hamilton Academical v Stenhousemuir (8pm)
Montrose v Kelty Hearts (7.45pm)
➡️ William Hill League Two
The Spartans v Stirling Albion (7.45pm)
🏆 Lowland League Cup Quarter Final
Civil Service Strollers v Tranent (7.45pm)
plus matches in the West of Scotland Football League and Scottish FA Youth Cup. View all fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
WORLD CUP EVENTS
🌎 When We Won The 78 World Cup
Loanhead Miners Social Club, Loanhead - 2pm to 6pm
Spend an afternoon in the company of Joe Jordan, Alan Rough and John Rowbottom as they remember Argentina 1978.
This is a charity event for Bright Sparks, supporting children and their families who have additional support needs in Midlothian.
Get your tickets at Turnstileevents.com
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Dundee Utd v St Mirren?