{"id":808433,"date":"2026-07-18T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:20:19","slug":"scot-gemmill-leaves-scotland-under-21-head-coach-role-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808433\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot Gemmill leaves Scotland Under-21 head coach role after 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scot Gemmill will depart from the role of Scotland Under-21 head coach after 13 years, the Scottish FA has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Scotland midfielder Gemmill, 55, previously coached the nation&#8217;s under-17s, was unable to get the under-21s to a European Championship but did seal fourth place at the Toulon Tournament in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gemmill played his club football predominantly in England with spells at Nottingham Forest, Everton, Preson North End, Leicester City and Oxford United before a year at New Zealand Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SFA chief football officer Craig Mulholland said: &#8220;On behalf of the Scottish FA, I&#8217;d like to thank Scot for his many years of dedicated service to the game in this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is held in the highest esteem by those who have worked alongside him, and I know that respect extends to the countless young players who have played under him at the various age levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a player and coach Scot has represented Scotland with distinction and I know that means a lot to him. We wish him well in his next opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland Under-21s&#8217; next fixtures are in the autumn against Azerbaijan (home) on 30 September and Bulgaria (away) on 6 October in European Championship qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scot Gemmill will depart from the role of Scotland Under-21 head coach after 13 years, the Scottish FA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-808433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}