Scotland's World Cup history by numbers, ahead of their opening match against Haiti.
80,000: Attendance at Scotland v Brazil in the 1998 World Cup opener - Scotland's biggest crowd at the Finals.
7,938: The attendance for Scotland's dismal draw in Cordoba, Argentina in 1978 - the lowest-attendance for a Scots game at the tournament.
56: Number of seconds it took Uruguay's Jose Batista to be sent off in the final group stage game against Scotland for an assault on Gordon Strachan. It remains the fastest-ever sending off in World Cup history.
41: Number of goals conceded by Scotland across nine tournaments.
39: Age of the oldest Scotland player at the last tournament so far. Aberdeen keeper Jim Leighton was 39 years, ten months and 30 days old when he appeared in the 3-0 defeat to Morocco in 1998.
31.4: The average of the Scotland squad in their final match at the tournament in 1998. It's the oldest average for a Scotland game at the tournament. The youngest was 26.0 when Scotland played Yugoslavia in 1974.
25: Number of goals scored by Scotland at the World Cup. They have a goal difference of -16.
22: Age of Joe Jordan when he netted in 1974 against Yugoslavia, making him the youngest-ever scorer for Scotland at the Finals.
21: Age of Scotland's youngest-ever player at a World Cup. Celtic's Paul McStay was 21 years, seven months and 22 days old when he played in the 0-0 draw against Uruguay
20: Numbers of clubs represented in Steve Clarke's final 26-man squad based in Scotland, England, Wales, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Croatia.
13: The number of players Scotland took to their first-ever World Cup in 1954, despite being allowed a squad of 18. It left them with just 12 outfield players.
10: Number of World Cups Scotland have qualified for. The SFA refused to go in 1950 despite qualifying for it because they didn't win the British Championships.
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9: Amount of World Cups Scotland have played in and also failed to qualify from the group stages.
Also the Highest number of appearances at a World Cup Finals. Jim Leighton holds the accolade across three finals.
8: Most goals Scotland have scored in a tournament, under Jock Stein in 1982....and they still missed out on goal difference.
7: Goals scored by Uruguay in Scotland's second ever World Cup game and what is still their heaviest-ever defeat.
6: The number of caps won by World Cup manager Steve Clarke. He was one of three debutants in a friendly in 1987 against Hungary in a 2-0 win. The others were Eric Black and Ian Durrant.
Six is also the number of years that passed between Clarke winning his fifth cap in 1988 and his sixth and his final cap in 1994.
5: When Scotland play Brazil in Miami, it will be the fifth time the Scots have faced the South American giants. The only other nations they have played more than once have been Uruguay and Yugoslavia.
4: Most number of goals scored by a Scot - Joe Jordan, who is also the only Scotland star to have scored in three Finals in a row.
Also the amount of games Scotland have won at World Cups.... across 72 years.
2: Number of players from the most represented clubs at Scotland's first ever game at the World Cup - a 1-0 defeat to Austria in Switzerland in 1954. There were two from Celtic (Willie Fernie, Neil Mochan), two from Partick Thistle (Jimmy Davidson, Johnny McKenzie) two from Preston North End (Tommy Docherty, Willie Cunningham). The other players were from Aberdeen, Hibs, Dundee, Blackpool and Burnley.
0: Number of times Scotland have made it through the group stages.
