List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland

This is a list of players who have played international football for the Scotland national football team and who were born outside Scotland. For the purposes of international football, the global governing body FIFA considers Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be distinct and individual countries. This has happened since the early days of international football, as Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (born in England) and Henry Renny-Tailyour represented Scotland in the 1870s. The first black international football player, Andrew Watson, was born in British Guiana and represented Scotland during the 1880s.

The majority of these players were born in England. In a friendly match against Cyprus in November 2011, five of the sixteen players used by Scotland were born in England. The rules of selection were quite strict until 1971, when national teams were allowed to pick players if one of their parents were born in that country. This was later relaxed to allowing selection for one grandparent being born in Scotland, although it was temporarily tightened again, which prevented Nigel Spackman from playing for Scotland. The Home Nations have since made an agreement that also allows players who have been educated for at least five years in the relevant country to be selected by its national team. Jordan Rhodes was selected on this basis.

Australia

 * Lyndon Dykes
 * Willie Fraser

British Guiana

 * Andrew Watson

Canada

 * Eadie Fraser
 * Joe Kennaway
 * John Little

England
• Ché Adams

• Graham Alexander

• Jordan Archer

• Phil Bardsley

• Dave Bowman

• George Boyd

• Liam Bridcutt

• Jacob Brown

• Tom Cairney

• Kris Commons

• Tommy Conway

• Liam Cooper

• Alex Cropley

• Paul Devlin

• Scott Dobie

• Matt Elliott

• Steven Fletcher

• Danny Fox

• Mike Galloway

• Matt Gilks

• Andy Goram

• Jonathan Gould

• Andy Gray

• Angus Gunn

• David Harvey

• Don Hutchison

• Colin Jackson

• Liam Kelly

• Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

• Craig Mackail-Smith

• Stuart McCall

• Jay McEveley

• Jamie Mackie

• Chris Martin

• Russell Martin

• Oli McBurnie

• Scott McTominay

• James Morrison

• Graeme Murty

• Liam Palmer

• Callum Paterson

• Matt Phillips

• Nigel Quashie

• Jordan Rhodes

• Bruce Rioch

• Matt Ritchie

• Neil Simpson

• Robbie Stockdale

• Neil Sullivan

• Jimmy Wardhaugh

• Bob Wilson Notes

Only played in England
A large number of Scottish internationals born in Scotland never played senior club football in that country, either due to the circumstances of their upbringing; for example Alex Donaldson, Jimmy Nelson (raised in Belfast rather than England, settled in Wales after playing for Cardiff City), Tommy Lawrence, Scot Gemmill, Dominic Matteo, Richard Hughes, Ikechi Anya (who also played in the Spanish leagues) and Dominic Hyam, or being scouted by clubs in England at a young age and remaining in the English football league system throughout their career; this includes several who reached the landmark of 25 caps such as Billy Liddell, Denis Law, Billy Bremner, Willie Donachie, Asa Hartford, Frank Gray, John Robertson, John Wark, Colin Calderwood, Darren Fletcher, Barry Bannan and Grant Hanley.

Conversely, Joe Baker had only played in the Scottish football league system when he was capped by his birthplace England in 1959 – he was the first player to be in that situation. His elder brother Gerry Baker was also raised in Scotland but had been born in the United States and later appeared for their national team.

India

 * Henry Renny-Tailyour
 * Paul Wilson

Ireland

 * Willie Maley

Isle of Man
The Isle of Man does not have an internationally recognised national team; the Isle of Man Football Association is affiliated to the English Football Association as a County Football Association.
 * Kieran Tierney

Malaysia

 * Shaun Maloney

South Africa

 * Alex Bell
 * John Hewie

Sweden

 * Richard Gough

United States

 * Jimmy Walker