⚽️ Delighted to visit Dundee United SC’s Easter Holiday Camp and see the progress of the Scottish FA’s Extra Time programme.

🤝 The joint initiative, which launched with £2m Scottish Government funding last year, is helping 25 football clubs provide free places for kids from low-income families.

The Scottish Gas Football Camps are back throughout the Easter Holidays 🙌 ⚽️

Charlie Mulgrew visited one camp back in October for a kick-about - get involved and find your local camp below ⤵️

Our Scotland Men's Under-19s Head Coach Billy Stark has today announced his decision to retire, following a decorated career as both a player and a coach.

All the very best in your retirement, Billy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NEWS | Coaches on our coaching pathway have benefited from specialist education in child wellbeing best practice, thanks to courses delivered by our Wellbeing Department.

The courses are one of the highlights of the Child Wellbeing & Protection 2023 Annual Review.

Read more ⤵️

NEWS | Malcolm Kpedekpo, an independent non-executive director to the Board of the Scottish FA, has been recognised on the Football Black List.

The initiative highlights influential Black people in British football, with Malcolm recognised for his work in football governance.

150 years ago today, Queen's Park and Clydesdale met to contest the first ever Scottish Cup Final.

Craig G Telfer looks back on the events of that historic day in 1874...

#ScottishCup

NEWS | Crawford Allan will leave his position as Head of Referee Operations at the end of this season.

NEWS | Former Scotland National Team Doctor, Medical Director and Chief Executive of Hampden Sports Clinic, Dr John Maclean will retire at the end of the month, bringing the curtain down on a 40-year career as one of the most influential medical professionals in Scottish sport.

NEWS | Graeme Smith has been appointed as our new Goalkeeping Performance and Coach Education Manager, bringing a wealth of experience to the role from his playing days and previous coaching roles.

Click below to read more ⤵️

Take a look back at last week's #InternationalWomensDay event, as we were joined by Emma Watson, Leanne Ross, Julie Fleeting and Abbie Hendry for a special panel discussion.

Read the full round-up below ⤵️

🎙️ You can listen back to our #InternationalWomensDay panel discussion on The Official Scotland Podcast channel.

Click below to hear Emma Watson, Leanne Ross, Abbie Hendry and Julie Fleeting chatting about their range of experiences in the game with Amy Irons ⤵️

From inspirational coaches, to family members who made a lasting impression...

As part of last night's #InternationalWomensDay event, we asked some of the attendees to tell us about a woman who inspires them 🗣️

Menopause Goals has made a real difference to those looking for more education on menopause.

The results of a University of Glasgow study into our pilot programme, run in partnership with St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation & Maria Anderson, are available to read now.

Click and swipe below to see the results ⤵️

Last month we shared Norma's story and the part the Menopause Goals programme run in partnership with St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation & Maria Anderson played in educating her around menopause.

Click below now to read a full report on the programme from University of Glasgow ⤵️

#IWD2024

To mark International Women's Day, we hosted an event in the Scottish Football Museum, involving individuals from throughout the game.

Amy Irons led a panel featuring Emma Watson, Leanne Ross, abbie hendry✨ & Julie Fleeting MBE, who shared their experiences in football.

The NextGen Performance Programme, a new girls’ talent development programme, has been launched to help support clubs in developing the next generation of elite girls’ talent in Scotland.

Click below to read more ⤵️

NEWS | We're excited to continue our partnership with Network Rail Scotland, which will help to spread vital rail safety messages to young people across Scotland.

After 47 years of coaching his local football team, Mick has been nominated and named as a Specsavers and Scottish FA Local Legend.