The Scotland A national rugby league team is made up of amateur players, who either play in the Rugby League Conference

Rugby League Conference

The Rugby League Conference , was a series of regionally based divisions of amateur rugby league teams spread throughout England, Scotland and Wales.The RLC was founded as the 10-team Southern Conference League in 1997, with teams from the southern midlands and the...

 or university leagues. The Scotland team is usually made up of some players who play in the Scottish division of the RLC, but also of players who play in the English or Welsh divisions. Napier University

Napier University

Edinburgh Napier is one of the largest higher education institutions in Scotland with over 17,000 students, including nearly 5,000 international students, from more than 100 nations worldwide.-History:...

 has also played a huge part in the team, with many Napier students having played in the side over the years. The team regularly compete against England, Wales and Ireland, playing them annually in the Home Nations Championship

Skanska Amateur Four Nations

Skanaska Amateur Four Nations or Home Nations Championship is a rugby league competition contested annually by Wales A, Ireland A, Scotland A and the England Lionhearts. While the teams from the Celtic nations are officially the countries' second string sides, the Lionhearts are England's...

. Since the creation of this tournament, in 2002, Scotland have never won the league although have finished second on two occasions in 2004 and 2005. Recently the Scotland team have toured Holland, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 and Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, helping expand rugby league in those country by playing domestic and national sides. Angus McNab currently coaches the side, whilst Andrew Todd of Edinburgh Eagles

Edinburgh Eagles

The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...

 is captain.

Squad

The following 18 man squad faced Wales A on the 21 June 2008. The team, picked by Angus McNab, was announced on the 17 June 2008.

Name	Position	Club
Blair Skipper	Fullback	Fife Lions Fife Lions Fife Lions ARLFC are a rugby league club located in the east of Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.The Fife Lions in recent years have been one of the dominant teams in the SRLC...
Andy Todd	Winger	Edinburgh Eagles Edinburgh Eagles The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...
Richard Knight	Centre	Leicester Phoenix
Barry Earl	Centre	Carlisle Centurions Carlisle Centurions East Cumbria Crusaders is a rugby league club based in Carlisle, Cumbria. They play in the North East Division of the Rugby League Conference. Their home ground is Creighton RUFC....
Jordan Webster	Winger	Fife Lions Fife Lions Fife Lions ARLFC are a rugby league club located in the east of Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.The Fife Lions in recent years have been one of the dominant teams in the SRLC...
Paddy Coupar	Half Back	Napier University Napier University Edinburgh Napier is one of the largest higher education institutions in Scotland with over 17,000 students, including nearly 5,000 international students, from more than 100 nations worldwide.-History:...
Bobby Bahadori	Scrum Half	Gateshead Storm Gateshead Storm Newcastle Storm are an amateur rugby league club in the North East of England. They play in the North East Premier of the Rugby League Conference.-Newcastle Knights:...
Ashley Carroll	Prop	Edinburgh Eagles Edinburgh Eagles The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...
David Vernon	Hooker	Gateshead Storm Gateshead Storm Newcastle Storm are an amateur rugby league club in the North East of England. They play in the North East Premier of the Rugby League Conference.-Newcastle Knights:...
James MacKay	Prop	Carlisle Centurions Carlisle Centurions East Cumbria Crusaders is a rugby league club based in Carlisle, Cumbria. They play in the North East Division of the Rugby League Conference. Their home ground is Creighton RUFC....
David Lynn	Second Row	Napier University Napier University Edinburgh Napier is one of the largest higher education institutions in Scotland with over 17,000 students, including nearly 5,000 international students, from more than 100 nations worldwide.-History:...
David Simm	Second Row	Easterhouse Panthers Easterhouse Panthers Easterhouse Panthers are an amateur rugby league team based in Easterhouse in the East End of Glasgow. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...
Martin Edwards	Loose Forward	Nottingham Outlaws
David Anderson	Interchange	Edinburgh Eagles Edinburgh Eagles The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...
Kevin Lang	Interchange	Paisley Hurricanes Paisley Hurricanes The Paisley Hurricanes are an amateur rugby league team. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference. The club is currently based at the in Paisley, home of Paisley Rugby Union Club....
John Cox	Interchange	Edinburgh Eagles Edinburgh Eagles The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...
Gareth McColl	Interchange	Fife Lions Fife Lions Fife Lions ARLFC are a rugby league club located in the east of Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.The Fife Lions in recent years have been one of the dominant teams in the SRLC...
Andy Grodynski	Interchange	Edinburgh Eagles Edinburgh Eagles The Edinburgh Eagles are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scotland Division of the Rugby League Conference.-History:...

Results

Date	Result	Competition	Venue
25 October 1997	Ireland A 25-18 Scotland A	Friendly	Dublin
30 May 1998	Scotland A 16-21 Ireland A	Friendly	Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Kilmarnock is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of 44,734. It is the second largest town in Ayrshire. The River Irvine runs through its eastern section, and the Kilmarnock Water passes through it, giving rise to the name 'Bank Street'...
3 October 1998	Wales A 18-28 Scotland A	Friendly	Crosskeys Crosskeys Crosskeys is a small village in Caerphilly county borough in Wales.- Location :Crosskeys is seven miles north west of Newport, just past Risca off the A467 road. Located near to the confluence of the Ebbw River and the Sirhowy River, it was originally called Pont-y-cymer...
19 September 1999	Scotland A 20-20 Wales A	Friendly	Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
19 August 2000	Scotland A ?-? Wales A	Friendly	Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
9 September 2001	Scotland A 10-28 Ireland A	Friendly	Glasgow
16 September 2001	Scotland A 30-36 Wales A	Four Nations Skanska Amateur Four Nations Skanaska Amateur Four Nations or Home Nations Championship is a rugby league competition contested annually by Wales A, Ireland A, Scotland A and the England Lionhearts. While the teams from the Celtic nations are officially the countries' second string sides, the Lionhearts are England's...	Hull Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
15 June 2002	Scotland A 22-40 Wales A	Four Nations	Glasgow
20 July 2002	Scotland A 8-58 England A	Four Nations	Glasgow
18 August 2002	Ireland A 70-12 Scotland A	Four Nations	Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...
21 June 2003	England A 28-20 Scotland A	Four Nations	York York York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
9 July 2003	Netherlands A 18-22 Scotland A	European Tour	Sassenheim Sassenheim Sassenheim is a town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.The former municipality covered an area of 6.62 km² and had a population of 14,906 in 2005...
11 July 2003	Italy A 10-30 Scotland A	European Tour	Padova
13 July 2003	Serbia A 22-42 Scotland A	European Tour	Grotska
27 July 2003	Wales A 42-22 Scotland A	Four Nations	Bridgend Bridgend Bridgend is a town in the Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital, Cardiff. The river crossed by the original bridge, which gave the town its name, is the River Ogmore but the River Ewenny also passes to the south of the town...
9 August 2003	Scotland A 48-20 Ireland A	Four Nations	Glasgow
13 June 2004	Scotland A 26-28 England A	Four Nations	Hamilton Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It is the fifth-biggest town in Scotland after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld...
3 July 2004	Scotland A 26-34 Wales A	Four Nations	Hamilton
22 August 2004	Ireland A 16-24 Scotland A	Four Nations	Navan Navan -People:Navan was the childhood home of Pierce Brosnan, who appeared in the television series Remington Steele and was the fifth film actor to play James Bond. TV personality Hector Ó hEochagáin, and comedians Dylan Moran and Tommy Tiernan also hail from Navan....
12 June 2005	Wales A 70-8 Scotland A	Four Nations	Bridgend
23 July 2005	England A 16-17 Scotland A	Four Nations	Haringey London Borough of Haringey The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough, in North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London. It was created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs. It shares borders with six other London boroughs...
14 August 2005	Scotland A 44-16 Ireland A	Four Nations	Glasgow
? June 2006	Ireland A 38-30 Scotland A	Four Nations	Limerick Limerick Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
? June 2006	Scotland A ?-? France A	Friendly	Glasgow
? July 2006	Scotland A 16-22 Wales A	Four Nations	Glasgow
? August 2006	Scotland A 14-46 England A	Four Nations	Glasgow
? June 2007	Wales A 44-30 Scotland A	Four Nations	Bridgend
21 July 2007	England A 42-40 Scotland A	Four Nations	Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...
11 August 2007	Scotland A 18-28 Ireland A	Four Nations	Glasgow