Scotland
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The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872. Although part of the United Kingdom, Scotland maintains its own representative side that competes in all major professional tournaments, but does not compete at the Olympics as Scotland is not a member of the International Olympic Committee. The Scotland national football team have an unenviable record at the FIFA World Cup finals. Scotland have competed at eight World Cup Finals, but have never progressed beyond the first round of the tournament stage. This is the record for the FIFA World Cup tournament of the team to have qualified the most times without having ever advanced beyond the first round.