Scotland Girls’s squad: Interim boss Michael McArdle makes 10 adjustments in first squad with six uncapped gamers included | Soccer Information

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Interim girls’s boss Michael McArdle has picked six uncapped gamers in a new-look Scotland squad for this month’s Nations League matches.

There are a complete of 10 adjustments to the group from final trip, with Celtic defender Emma Lawton, Hibs ahead Eilidh Adams, and midfielders Eilidh Shore of Hearts plus Newcastle’s Freya Gregory – who has performed for England at youth degree – all within the senior squad for the primary time.

In the meantime, Hibernian goalkeeper Erin Clachers and Rangers ahead Mia McAulay are again within the group as they give the impression of being to make their debut.

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Mia McAulay is again within the Scotland squad after lacking the Euro 2025 playoff in opposition to Finland

Acquainted faces return too with Rangers defender Leah Eddie and midfielder Kirsty Maclean included within the squad once more, as is Amy Muir of SWPL leaders Glasgow Metropolis.

Amy Muir
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Amy Muir has impressed at Glasgow Metropolis who’re high of the SWPL

Striker Lauren Davidson – who’s now taking part in for Norwegian facet SK Brann – can be named within the 24-player squad.

9 of the group that did not beat Finland of their Euro 2025 play-off closing drop out, together with Rangers duo Jenna Fife and Nicola Docherty, Celtic’s Kelly Clark and Shannon McGregor, Bristol Metropolis pair Jamie-Lee Napier and Amy Rodgers, plus Emma Mukandi, Lisa Evans, and Brogan Hay.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 22: (L-R) Rangers' Jenna Fife and Nicola Docherty walk out during a SWPL match between Celtic and Rangers at the Excelsior Stadium, on October 22, 2023, in Airdrie, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey / SNS Group)
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Rangers duo Jenna Fife and Nicola Docherty are amongst 9 to drop out of the squad

McArdle – who was beforehand SFA head of girls’s elite soccer – is in interim cost following the sacking of Pedro Martinez Losa in December.

Scotland go to Austria of their opening Nations League sport on February 21 earlier than taking over the Netherlands 4 days later at Hampden Park.

HAMILTON, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Celtic's Kelly Clark, Shannon McGregor and Colette Cavanagh at full time during a UEFA Women's Champions League Group Stage Matchday One match between Celtic and FC Twente at the ZLX Stadium, on October 08, 2024, in Hamilton, Scotland. (Photo by Mark Scates / SNS Group)
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Celtic’s Kelly Clark and Shannon McGregor haven’t been picked by McArdle

Scotland squad in full:

Goalkeepers: Erin Clachers (Hibernian), Eartha Cummings (FC Rosengard), Lee Gibson (Glasgow Metropolis)

Defenders: Jenna Clark (Liverpool), Leah Eddie (Rangers), Sophie Howard (Leicester Metropolis), Emma Lawton (Celtic), Rachel McLauchlan (Brighton & Hove Albion), Amy Muir (Glasgow Metropolis), Kirsty Smith (West Ham United).

Midfielders: Chelsea Cornet (Rangers), Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea), Freya Gregory (Newcastle United), Sam Kerr (Liverpool), Kirsty Maclean (Rangers), Eilidh Shore (Hearts), Caroline Weir (Actual Madrid).

Forwards: Eilidh Adams (Hibernian), Lauren Davidson (SK Brann), Claire Emslie (Angel Metropolis), Kirsty Hanson (Aston Villa), Mia McAulay (Rangers), Martha Thomas (Tottenham Hotspur), Emma Watson (Everton).

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