Football

The Scotland squad for this month’s UEFA Women’s Under-19 European Championship was named last week by Head Coach Pauline Hamill.

Scotland Women’s manager Shelley Kerr has named her squad which take part in the Women’s World Cup finals next month.

Banchory St Ternan are the Division 1 champions after a 3-0 win against Deveronside at Milton Park last Saturday.

With just over a month to go, Banchory Boys 2005 are preparing for a 2.5km race at Balmoral Castle on Saturday April 27 as part of the annual Run Balmoral festival, where up to 10,000 are expected.

Culter have appointed Lee Youngson as their new manager. The East End boss will be assisted by his New Advocates Park team of Craig Stephenson and Ian Finnie.

Donside Girls U13s won the Scottish Youth Cup on Saturday after beating Musselburgh Windsor U13s in a thrilling final at Oriam in Edinburgh.

The Scottish FA is going to remain at Hampden Park, it announced today.

Banchory St Ternan made Sunnybank pay the penalty in their first home league game of the season, scoring twice from the spot.

Westdyke Ladies faced a tough test against an undefeated Dundee United at Lawsondale last Sunday, and left it late to get into their stride.

Westdyke U17s secured a fam-ous victory for a local boys team from Aberdeen against the 
national team of Malta in the Centenary Stadium, Ta’ Qali last Friday.

Genetically modifying Scottish footballers isn’t what Scott Booth believes is required to alter the qualifying fortunes of the country. Change should be resisted on all levels in the Scotland set-up is the firm belief of the 22-times capped former SFA youth coach.

It would be understandable if representing Scotland under-21s wasn’t uppermost in the mind of Oliver Burke right now. That, though, will be anything but the case according to Scot Gemmill, who will manage him at international level next month.

The battle to land Scottish junior football's Blue Riband trophy gets under way next month.