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:
Iran
The Iranian national team first made its appearance on the World stage in the 1960s. It won the Asian Cup first in 1968, then 1972 and 1976. It then made it through to the World Cup Finals 1978 and again in 1998. It was somewhat ironically the last time Scotland featured, since when Iran has qualified in both 2006 and 2014.
But Iran, then known as Persia, had played its first international fixture in 1926, when a Tehran XI travelled to Baku in Azerbaijan, with the game first coming to the country in 1898. The first game is said to have been played in the southern city of Isfahan between teams drawn from the British and Armenian communities, by 1907 the game was also being played by British oil-refinery workers and sailors in the ports on the Persian Gulf and that same year the British Ambassador to Persia organised the first tournament in the capital, Tehran. Three teams took part, the British Embassy itself, the Indo-European Telegraph Company and the Imperial Bank of Persia. Moreover, to organise future fixtures between British residents and including the first Iranian players the Tehran Football Association Club was also forme that same year.
With the Great War, as elsewhere, football in Persia was put on hold for the duration but with its end the game rapidly restarted. It had been, in the meantime, introduced to the south of the country, to Shiraz, by British officers serving in the South Persia Rifles and in 1920 the Persian Football Association was formed, which in 1921 became the "Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Football with Persian patronage and later the Persian Football Federation, which in 1945 joined FIFA. The two men, both contributing Cups to the cause in 1920 were A.R. Neligan, the British doctor, and the man chosen as first President, the local director of the Imperial Bank of Persia itself, James McMurray, initially a mystery-man, who turns out to be a Wigton-shire farmer's son.