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The UEFA European Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations' Cup, changing to the current name in 1968.
Scottish football clubs have participated in European association football competitions since 1955, when Hibernian entered the inaugural European Cup.. Scottish sides have won four UEFA competitions between them, with Celtic becoming the first side from the British Isles to be European champions by winning the 1966–67 European Cup.
The Scotland national football team [note 1] represents Scotland in men's international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association.They compete in three major professional tournaments: the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Nations League, and the UEFA European Championship.
Rangers have won a record number of league championships and League Cups, while Celtic have won a record number of Scottish Cups. European competition started in 1955 with the European Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was succeeded by the UEFA Cup for the 1971–72 season. The Cup Winners' Cup followed in 1960 but was discontinued in 1999.
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Regional tournaments for national teams existed before the advent of a truly pan-European competition. Starting in 1883, the British Home Championship was an annual competition contested between the United Kingdom's four national teams, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Scotland bowed out of the tournament on goal difference for the second successive World Cup. After the finals MacLeod took charge of only one more match, a 3–2 defeat by Austria in the first match of the 1980 European Championship qualifiers, before resigning.