And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more.
For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
The Scots Football Historians' Group
And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
Football came to Dutch-speaking northern Belgium in 1887. It was the year Antwerp F.C. emerged from the Antwerp Athletic Club, formed mainly by Britons involved in shipping. It came to Brussels in 1893 having a year early already arrived in the French-speaking south-east of the country in Liege with the foundation of what is now Royal FC Liegeois.
Why Liegeois came to be formed is not exactly clear. What is know, however, is, firstly, that it was founded before other clubs in the immediate area, indeed even before the two nearest early ones across the border in France, Lille and Roubaix, as it also before other clubs in Belgium's wider south-west. Secondly, its regal appellation was added in 1920. Before that from 1892 it was known as Liege Football Club, i.e. in English not French. Then in 1895 with the formation of the Belgian Football Association, of which it was a founding member, the name became FC Liegeois and as such, when the Belgian league was founded, it in 1896 became its first champion.
Nevertheless, there is perhaps a clue as to how it came to be formed. It is the name "Menzies". By the time of its first championship the newly renamed club had a new president. He was Ronald Sutherland Menzies, and was clearly a prominent citizen. In 1903 become would even British Vice-Consul in the city, this after a period, which was for the football club without doubt its greatest. It still exists to this day playing in the country's third tier but back then the league was won for a second time in 1897 and again in 1899, having been runner-up in 1898.
And it would do it with three more Menzies in the team. The first was Harry, in the 1896-7 season already in the squad, aged eighteen, and in 1898 and in 1899 in the first team itself. And he would be followed by Guy and Frederic. They were brothers, three of seven, of whom six survived to adulthood. Indeed Guy Menzies, born in Liege, like all but one of his siblings, was actually named after their father, his full name being Ronald Sutherland Guy, "Guy" for short.
So who were the Menzies. There could be no more Scottish name than Ronald Sutherland, the father, but he was not born in Scotland. His birth was in 1846 in Lee then in Kent now a London suburb, from where he had then gone to Acton School before going up to Cambridge, to Magdalene College. Nor had James Sutherland's, his father, been born north of the border but in Finsbury, in London itself. It was his grandfather, who had first taken the road south to London that the family would continue across The Channel. Peter Patrick Menzies had been born in Perth, had married in Islington and died in Somers Town, what we today know as Euston.
And then for more Scots footballing influence in Belgium see.......