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:
Wales
Top-flight football in Wales is today a game of the south rather than the north. It was not always so. In fact it began precisely the opposite way round. It also began early, just a year after the
inauguration of the English FA in 1864, with the formation of Wrexham Association Football Club. It makes Wales, not Scotland, the second country in the World to see football and its makes Wrexham AFC the sixth oldest team in the World and the third oldest professional one. It means too that its ground is the oldest in the World to have been in continuous use, the doyen of the World's football stadia.
But a football team does not necessarily play the strict Association game, at least not to begin with. Nor does a single team make a competition. The former came with time, the latter in a real, if friendly form with the foundation in 1869 of Plasmadoc FC in nearby Ruabon, which three years later combined with two other local teams to form Ruabon Druids. And four years later organised competition arrived with the creation of the Welsh Football Association, the instigation of the Welsh Cup the following year in 1877 and between them Wales's first international game. In all three Scots were vital.