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The first written record of football in Scotland dates back some 600 years. Football For All! celebrates the people's game and is being delivered by the Scottish Football Museum along with the Scottish Football Association.
Pictured above is a photo from the opening of The History Makers, an exhibition held as part of the project to celebrate milestones in Scotland's football history. At the exhibition's opening Janie Houghton, a former Scotland internationalist, received the cap she earned 50 years earlier as the goalkeeper when Scotland played England in the first women's association football international game.
Scotland features heavily in the story of women's football. The earliest example of women playing football anywhere in Europe can be found at Carstairs village in 1628, and Britain's first recorded international women's football match took place at Hibernian Park, Edinburgh in 1881.
The project's activities include:
- a community grants programme supporting local football heritage projects in communities throughout Scotland, awarding 15 grants of up to £1,500
- 400 Football Memories groups around Scotland helped to create a reminiscence pack featuring 60 Scottish football legends, which is used by Alzheimer's Scotland supported groups and others supporting older people
- a digital archive was created to coincide with the Scottish FA’s 150th anniversary celebrations
Caroline Clark, the National Lottery Heritage Fund Director for Scotland, said: “This 600th anniversary programme is a wonderful celebration of the positive impact football has in bringing people and communities together through the generations.
“Football is undoubtedly the people’s game and an important part of our national heritage; we are very pleased to support this three-year project which will reach out to the whole community across Scotland.”
