⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 1st October 2025
Scotland squad announcement. Partick Thistle go second in the Championship. Ross County make three loan signings. Oli McBurnie and Ross Stewart on the scoresheet in the EFL Championship.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #158:
Scotland men’s team has played Cyprus nine times and won every single match. Their most frequent opponent against whom they have achieved a 100% win record.LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Scottish Championship
Queen’s Park 0 - 1 Partick Thistle
➡️ Park’s Motor Group Lowland League
Albion Rovers 2 - 6 Linlithgow Rose
Bo’ness United 1 - 1 Bonnyrigg Rose
Caledonian Braves p - p Berwick Rangers (postponed due to a gas leak)
Civil Service Strollers 1 - 0 Tranent
plus results in Club Academy Scotland Under-19 League. View all the results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
NEWS
🆕 The Scotland squad for the Greece and Belarus Hampden double-header has been announced.
Zander Clark, Josh Doig, Dom Hyam, and Max Johnston all drop out, while Craig Gordon gets a recall.
Greece are up first at Hampden on Thursday, 9th October, before Belarus come to Glasgow on the Sunday. - Scottish FA website
⚽️ Partick Thistle made it five league wins in a row thanks to a Tony Watt goal in their 1-0 win at Queen’s Park.
Mark Wilson’s side are now second in the table. - view the Championship table here
✍️ Ross County made three more signings yesterday.
Falkirk defender Sean Mackie, Dundee United winger Miller Thomson, and Aberdeen winger Ryan Duncan have all made loan moves to Dingwall. - Paul Chalk, The Press & Journal
The Ross County squad was already looking a fair size before they announced the Miller Thomson signing. - Narey’s Toepoker on X
⭐️ Inverness Caledonian Thistle’s David Wotherspoon was named the SPFL Team of the Week star man.
⚽️ Oli McBurnie scored twice for Hull City last night as they came from two down to draw 2-2 with Preston North End.
Southampton striker Ross Stewart also scored a double in his side’s 2-1 win over Sheffield United at Brammall Lane.
🔝 Top-of-the-table Linlithgow Rose had a comfortable 6-2 win away at Albion Rovers last night in the Park’s Motor Group Lowland League.
Bo’ness United and Bonnyrigg Rose drew 1-1. Civil Service Strollers beat Tranent 1-0 to move eight points clear of the bottom sides East Stirlingshire and Gretna 2008. - view the Lowland League table here
🟡 Highland League club Nairn County handed out a free home shirt to every primary three pupil in the Nairnshire area last week.
Nearly 200 pupils were given a shirt alongside a voucher to attend the next home game, a £5 free food and drink voucher for the same game, a squad poster, a letter from the manager, and a goody bag from their main club partner, Murray Travel. - Nairn County FC website
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
➡️ ScottishPower SWPL 1
Hibernian v Glasgow City (7.35pm - live on BBC Alba)
➡️ East of Scotland Football League Premier Division
Camelon Juniors v Whitburn Junior (7.30pm)
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