Scottish Football League XI
The Scottish League XI was a representative side of the Scottish Football League. The team regularly played against the (English) Football League and other national league select teams between 1892 and 1980. For a long period the annual fixture between the English and Scottish leagues was only second in importance to the matches between the two national teams. The fixture declined in importance after regular European club competition was instituted in the 1950s; matches in the 1960s and 1970s were played irregularly and poorly attended. A match involving a Scottish League XI was last played in 1990, to mark the centenary of the League.
Celtic Park, pictured in 1894. The ground hosted the first home game played by the Scottish League XI, in 1893.
Denis Law, the all-time top goalscorer for the Scottish national team, played against the Scottish League XI for the Italian league in November 1961.
Patrick Gallacher was an Irish footballer, playing in the inside-right position, and most noted for his career at Celtic – he is one of the club's leading goalscorers of all time.
1914 Celtic team photo with the Scottish Cup; Gallacher bottom row, second left