{"id":514418,"date":"2026-06-28T00:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514418\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:41:13","slug":"the-partys-officially-over-scotland-eliminated-from-the-world-cup-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514418\/","title":{"rendered":"The party\u2019s officially over: Scotland eliminated from the World Cup | Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland\u2019s World Cup<\/a> elimination has been confirmed after Saturday\u2019s results in Group L, with the country failing to finish among the top eight of third-placed teams in the tournament\u2019s group stage.<\/p>\n

Steve Clarke and his team had a stated aim of making history by becoming the first Scottish side to reach the knockout phase of a major finals. Instead, the event has once again caused crushing disappointment. Clarke has led Scotland<\/a> to three major tournaments, in which they have won just a single game and scored only four goals.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s tally of three points and a goal difference of minus three was always likely to be insufficient to progress, with Croatia\u2019s 2-1 win over Ghana finally confirming what had seemed increasingly inevitable over the past few days.<\/p>\n

Clarke\u2019s side beat Haiti 1-0<\/a> in their opening match at the Boston Stadium before losing by the same margin to Morocco<\/a>. A calamitous start against Brazil in Miami saw the Scots fall behind after six minutes to Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s goal. A further two from Brazil left Scotland under severe pressure, with Clarke and his players admitting afterwards they feared their World Cup was over<\/a>. That has been proven correct by subsequent events in other groups. Scotland had returned to their World Cup training base in Charlotte on Thursday but will now head for home.<\/p>\n

Clarke had been uncharacteristically critical of the Scotland team after the Brazil defeat. \u201cWe have to be better if we want to compete at this level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The manager\u2019s position is under no threat, with the 62-year-old being handed a four-year contract by the Scottish FA immediately before the World Cup. The deal raised eyebrows at the time but was vigorously defended by SFA officials. While Clarke will continue, a World Cup exit may mark the end of the international road for some members of what is an experienced but ageing squad.<\/p>\n

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Scotland return to action in September, when they face Slovenia and Switzerland in the Nations League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s World Cup elimination has been confirmed after Saturday\u2019s results in Group L, with the country failing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-514418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}