Maybe I'll do a World Cup song for Scotland you don't want it to be too twee, but you want it to be catchy enough' Amy Macdonald on her dream assignment

"Between the 1970s and 1990s, whenever a home nation qualified for a major tournament, the pop charts would be troubled by one of the era's big acts penning a song and often working with the squad themselves. While England's best football songs have included the likes of World In Motion and Three Lions, Scotland's have often been a tad more knowing - see 1982's We Have A Dream or Del Amitri's 1998 plea of Don't Come Home Too Soon'."

"Amy Macdonald - who released a football-inspired song Pride in 2012 - has already put her hat in the ring when it comes to an official song. Pride was written after I sang the anthem before a match against Spain we did really well in that game and I felt so moved by the whole evening that I felt inspired to write, she tells FourFourTwo, speaking before the Tartan Army's win over Denmark that booked their place in the 2026 World Cup."

World Cup songs were common from the 1970s to 1990s when home nations commissioned pop acts to create tournament anthems. England produced World In Motion and Three Lions while Scotland produced We Have A Dream and Del Amitri’s Don’t Come Home Too Soon. Amy Macdonald released the football-inspired song Pride in 2012 after singing the anthem before a match against Spain. Macdonald said she has considered writing a specific tournament song but worries about making it too twee while remaining catchy. Scotland qualified for the 2026 World Cup, marking their first appearance since 1998. Macdonald was ten at Scotland’s last World Cup.

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