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:
India
Football and India are not words that fit easily together. Yet Indian football exists and has done so for well over a hundred years. Today the game is regional. It is strongest in the ex-Portuguese territory of Goa, in Kerala and the north and the east where it first took hold; in the foothills of the Himalayas from Simla to the Burmese border and East Bengal around Kolkata, Calcutta that was. The country's Durand Cup is the third oldest competition in the World after the FA and Scottish Cups, founded in 1888. It was won for its first eight years by Scots in Scottish regiments and after a one year gap for three year more by the Black Watch.
Calcutta itself is a city redolent with Scots influence via the East India Company. Dalhousie Square lies at the heart of the city overlooking the Hooghly River just as Dalhousie Castle does on the South Esk 5,000 miles to the west. And it is there that the Indian powerhouse of the game was and still is. It began notionally in 1872 with the formation of the Calcutta Football Club. But it played a game more akin to rugby until its dissolution in 1876 and did not really take up the round-ball game until about 1894. By then the mid-1880s had seen the foundation of the Calcutta Rangers and the Howrah United clubs and there was at about the same time the emergence of several school based teams, from which came more clubs, both British and Bengali. The Trades Cup was first played for in 1889. A local team defeated a British regiment for the first time in 1892. That was the same year a local team took that trophy again for the first time. In 1893 the IFA, the Indian Football Association, was founded, with it and its Shield remaining closed to local clubs for the next five years and only being won by a local club for the first time in 1911. In the meantime the IFA was initially European-only and therefore of indifferent standard with one exception. In 1898
Jack Fyfe, otherwise known as Bertie, John Herbert Fyfe, had arrived in India from Scotland, indeed from playing professional football as a winger and in 1895 representing Scotland. And once in the city he joined Calcutta FC, played up front, was easily top-scorer for several years, his team, having taken the Shield in 1900, doing so again in 1903, 1904 and losing the final in 1905 to Dalhousie, in 1907 to the Highland Light Infantry and in 1910 to the Gordon Highlanders, by which time Fyfe, were he still playing, would have been thirty-seven.
Even today two of the eleven teams in India's I-League are still in Kolkata. Only one is in Delhi, one in the Punjab, another in Kashmir. None are in Mumbai. One is in Goa, a second in Chennai and a third in Kozhikode. And the last three are in the far north-east all founded since the 1960s, all in a 300 miles triangle in Meghalaya, Mizuram and Manipur and rooted in a football culture that was planted some thirty years earlier there, in Assam and West Bengal by individual enthusiasts. Here is one of their stories.