Poland v Scotland: Five previous matches

Steven Caldwell battles for the ball in Bydgoszcz on his debut for the national team. Picture: SNS/Jeff Holmes

POLAND 1-2 SCOTLAND (Warsaw, June 1958)

Celtic inside right Bobby Collins scored a goal in each half as Scotland won the first meeting between the teams, which formed part of the visitors’ final preparations for the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden.

Goalkeeper Tommy Younger captained the team at the Stadion Dziesieciolecia.

Poland: E Szymkowiak, H Szczepanski, H Kempny, R Lentner, E Zientara, G Ciesklik, M Norkowski, R Korynt, J Wozniak, W Majewski, M Nowara. Goal: Cieslik 84.

Scotland: T Younger, B Evans, B Collins, G Leggat, J Mudie, J S Imlach, E Turnbull, D Cowie, J Hewie, J Murray, E Caldow. Goals: Collins 21; 53.

Referee: J Sranko

Attendance: c. 70,000

POLAND 1-1 SCOTLAND (Chorzow, May 1965)

Collins, now with Leeds, also played in the next encounter, which was Jock Stein’s first match in charge of Scotland.

Rangers legend John Greig captained the side at the Stadion Slaski in a match played on a Sunday.

Denis Law earned Scotland a point in the World Cup qualifier when he equalised in the 76th minute, but Scotland’s failure to beat the Poles in the group meant they finished behind Italy and missed out on the finals in England.

Poland: E Szymkowiak, J Liberda, J Gmoch, H Szczepanski, A Nieroba, J Banas, R Lentner, R Grzegorczyk, E Pol, R Bazan, S Oslizlo. Goal: Lentner 52.

Scotland: B Brown, A Hamilton, J Greig, E McCreadie, W Henderson, B Collins, J Hughes, N Martin, D Law, P Crerand, B McNeill. Goal: Law 76

Referee: S Alimov

Attendance: 67,462

POLAND 1-0 SCOTLAND (Poznan, May 1980)

Current manager Gordon Strachan was in the Scotland team that lost narrowly in a friendly during Stein’s second spell in charge at Poznan’s Stadion Warty.

A Scotland strikeforce featuring Kenny Dalglish, Joe Jordan and Steve Archibald were overshadowed by Poland great Zbigniew Boniek, whose penalty-box shot deflected in off Willie Miller.

Future Scotland managers George Burley and Alex McLeish lined up in defence.

Poland: P Mowlik, L Lipka, P Janas, A Nawalka, H Barczak, K Kmiecik, M Dziuba (W Ciolek, 69), W Zmuda, Z Boniek, A Palasz (S Terlecki, 46), G Lato. Goal: Boniek 67

Scotland: A Rough, G Burley (A Dawson, 80), D McGrain, A McLeish, W Miller, G Strachan, R Aitken, S Archibald, J Jordan (A Brazil, 46), K Dalglish (P Weir, 49), D Narey.

Referee: I Josifov

Attendance: c. 25,000

POLAND 1-1 SCOTLAND (Bydgoszcz, April 2001)

Scott Booth earned Scotland a draw in a friendly which saw Craig Brown hand debuts to seven players - Barry Nicholson, Gavin Rae, Charlie Miller, John O’Neil, Kenny Miller, Andy McLaren and Steven Caldwell.

Future Celtic striker Maciej Zurawski came off the bench for Poland while the Zewlakow brothers both started for the hosts at the Stadion Polonii Bydgoszcz.

Radoslaw Kaluzny headed the hosts in front, arguably from an offside position, when he beat Neil Sullivan to a free-kick, but Booth’s emphatic penalty gave a makeshift Scotland an unlikely draw.

Tomasz Iwan was sent off for a second yellow card in the 83rd minute.

Poland: J Dudek, T Waldoch, J Zielinski, T Klos, Michal Zewlakow (M Mieciel, 64), M Kozminski (R Kaluzny, 46), T Hajto (J Krzynowek, 46), Marcin Zewlakow, P Kryszalowicz (M Zurawski, 75), T Zdebel (P Swierczewski. 59), T Iwan. Goal: Kaluzny, 49.

Scotland: N Sullivan, T Boyd, C Dailly, C Davidson (D Weir, 73), B Nicholson, J O’Neil (S Gemmill, 74), C Cameron (A McLaren, 46), G Rae, C Miller (S Caldwell, 46), B Dodds (S Crawford, 46), S Booth (K Miller, 80). Goal: Booth (p) 69.

Referee: J Roca

Attendance: c. 20,000

POLAND 0-1 SCOTLAND (Warsaw, March 2014)

The teams were drawn in the same European Championship qualifying group just after arranging a friendly earlier this year and Scotland gave themselves a morale boost ahead of the real thing when Scott Brown thundered home a late left-footed strike from 18 yards, although the hosts were missing the injured Robert Lewandowski.

Former Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc earned a place on the bench alongside Lukasz Fabianski, while Arsenal’s Wojciech Szczesny started in goal for the Poles at the Stadion Narodowy,

Poland: W Szczesny, L Szukala, K Glik, T Brzyski (M Komorowski, 90), L Piszczek, G Krychowiak (T Jodlowiec, 88), W Sobota (M Maslowski, 89), L Obraniak (M Robak, 74), S Peskzo (E Polanski, 74), M Klich (L Teodorczyk, 82), A Milik. Subs not used: Fabianski, Boruc, Pazdan, Wilusz, Celeban, Lewczuk. Booked: Peszko

Scotland: D Marshall, A Hutton (P Bardsley, 67), G Greer, R Martin, C Mulgrew, B Bannan (A Robertson, 67), J Morrison (D Fletcher 46), S Brown, I Anya (C Burke, 90), R McCormack (C Adam, 76), S Fletcher (S Naismith, 46). Goal: Brown 77. Booked: Brown, Hutton, Naismith.

Referee: A Bieri

Attendance: 41,652