Scotland will face Greece in the UEFA Nations League Group A/B Play-off next March.

The two-legged tie, which will see the first leg in Greece on Thursday, 20 March, before the return leg at Hampden on Sunday, 23 March, will determine which side takes their place in the top tier of the Nations League campaign in 2026.

Scotland earned the play-off spot thanks to Andy Robertson’s dramatic injury-time winner in Warsaw on Monday, which saw Scotland leapfrog Poland into third place.

The draw in Nyon, Switzerland today saw Greece chosen as Scotland’s opponents from the four possible nations who finished in second place in their groups in League B.

Ticket information for the match will be released in due course. 

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Scotland Head Coach Steve Clarke expects a tough tie but aims to continue the positive momentum the team has built in the last three matches.

“Greece have shown in the Nations League campaign that they are a quality team,” he said. “These will be really competitive games in March but ones we will look forward to ahead of our World Cup qualifying.”

"We had a strong ending to our Nations League campaign, with positive results against teams established at the top level. The challenge now will be to continue the momentum we built in the autumn into this play-off tie and our World Cup qualification campaign next year."

Head-to-Head

The two nations have only met twice in their history, both games in the qualification campaign for UEFA EURO 1996, in which Scotland were ultimately successful.

Both sides won their home matches 1-0 in that campaign, Greece holding out for the win in Athens after a 19th minute penalty from Stratos Apostolakis.

Scotland then got a crucial victory in the return leg at Hampden, Ally McCoist heading the winner in the 72nd minute just moments after coming off the bench. The goal came on McCoist’s first cap for Scotland in more than 18 months, after he had broken his leg playing for the national team against Portugal in 1993.

 

Greece narrowly missed out on automatic promotion to the top tier of the Nations League to group winners England after a campaign that saw them defeat Ireland home and away, Finland home and away and record a 2-1 win at Wembley.

The only game they lost was a 3-0 defeat to England in Athens.