What is Congress?

The ongoing modernisation of the Scottish FA’s governance manifested itself in the creation of a new Congress in 2015: the national game’s first fully-representative group of stakeholders.

It was the culmination of a two-year process of evolving the traditional Scottish FA Council and making it a more functional and inclusive body to debate, discuss and make recommendations on the key issues affecting the game.

Club and affiliate representatives are now joined by recognised bodies such as PFA Scotland, Scottish Coaches’ and Managers’ Association, Scottish Senior Football Referees’ Association, Scottish Football Writers’ Association and sportscotland.

Congress meets quarterly in addition to regular consultation meetings to provide feedback and guidance on prevalent strategic topics to the Scottish FA Board.

Members

Office Bearers: Rod Petrie, Michael Mulraney
Scottish FA Chief Executive: Ian Maxwell
Scottish Professional Football League: Andrew Dickson, Neil Doncaster, Leeann Dempster, Alan Burrows, Calum Beattie, Michael Nicholson.
Scottish Highland Football League: David Dowling
Scottish Lowland Football League: Andrew Waddell
East of Scotland Football League: Alistair Wilkie
South of Scotland Football League: Richard Shaw MBE
Scottish Amateur FA: Iain Cowden
Scottish Junior FA: Alex McDowall
Scottish Schools’ FA: Alex McMenemy
Scottish Welfare FA: Chris Connelly
Scottish Women’s Football: Vivienne MacLaren
Scottish Youth FA: Gavin McIntyre
Scottish Para-Football: Ashley Reid
Scottish FA Youth Ambassador: Kira Henry
PFA Scotland: Fraser Wishart
Managers and Coaches Association: Billy Brown
Scottish Senior Football Referees’ Association: David McGeachie
sportscotland: Mel Young
Media: Chick Young
Supporters Direct Scotland: Alan Russell