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, Graham Peterkin, Alastair Donald, Leeann Dempster, Malcom Mackay
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: Stuart Urquhart
Scottish Junior FA: Tom Johnston
Scottish Schools’ FA: Alex McMenemy
Scottish Welfare FA: Callum Shanks
Scottish Women’s Football: Vivienne MacLaren
Scottish Youth FA: John McCrimmond
Scottish Para-Football: Robert Craig
Scottish FA Youth Ambassador: Joshua Barrie
PFA Scotland: Fraser Wishart
Managers and Coaches Association: Walter Macadam
Scottish Senior Football Referees’ Association: Kevin Clancy
sportscotland: Mel Young
Media: Lindsay Herron
Supporters Direct Scotland: Alan Russell