About the Scotland Travel Club – aka The STC

Written by Smithy on July 18th, 2009

The Scotland Travel Club, also known as the STC, was formed by the Scotland Football Association in the early 1980's.  The main purpose of the club was to provide match tickets to Scotland fans for away matches and to reward those who travelled regularly.  It also gave fans priority when booking home game tickets.  Before the club was formed, away tickets were distributed via the SFA.  There was no membership system in existence.

In the first year of existence there were about 100 members.  The first set of membership numbers were allocated alphabetically.  We know from a security lapse in 2007 that member number 3 was still active and travelled to France.  Rumour has it that member numbers 1 and 2 were a set of twins.

Membership always ran on a 2 year cycle. Membership started in January – join in November and your membership ran out in January.  To join cost a one of fee of £10, and then £20 every other year.

By the year 2000 the membership number had reached 24,000 and by 2001 there were 15,000 active members.  By 2005 the number of active members had reached 17,000.

Many will heave heard of Marjory Nimmo from the STC. Marjory ran the club for most of it’s life, and people often said she knew most people by name. If there was an issue, you knew Marjory would be able to help.

During the time of the STC, the SFA had an official travel agent called Scotball Travel and Leisure.  Scotball arranged the official travel for the SFA and would usually run trips for STC members.  At the time they were actually based in the offices of the STC and shared email and telephone numbers.  Many fans travelled with Scotball the last time Scotland played in the World Cup in France 98.  This seems to have been Scotballs last trip - many fans had bad experiences.

In 2006 the STC was replaced by the Scotland Supporters Club.

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