There have been some big games in the Unofficial Football World Championships over the last few months, and on Wednesday there is another one as current UFWC title holders the Netherlands (some say Holland) travel to Glasgow to take on all-time UFWC champions Scotland.

The game is also a crucial qualifying match for some tin pot competition to be held in South Africa next year, but obviously the player’s minds will be on the UFWC…

Scotland are the all-time UFWC champions, having won 86 UFWC title matches – more than any other nation, ahead of the likes of England, Argentina, Russia – and the Netherlands, who have won 38 title matches and are ranked fifth overall.

Scotland have not had an easy time of things in UFWC competition in recent years. The Scots last held the title in March 2007, having ended a 40-year drought by beating Georgia, only then to lose out just four days later to official world champions Italy.

The UFWC website has all the build-up to the game, and will cover the action on Wednesday night. The game will be shown live in the UK on Sky Sports 2.

If you have no idea what the previous 200 words mean, you can read an explanation of sorts at www.ufwc.co.uk.

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The Netherlands retained the Unofficial Football World Championships title on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Iceland. The next UFWC title match sees the Dutch take on Norway on Wednesday. Depending on the result of that game, the next UFWC title challengers will be England or Scotland.

The UFWC pitches real international football teams into a continuous series of boxing-style title matches. Winners of UFWC title matches become title-holders, and move up the rankings table. UFWC history dates back to 1872, 58 years before the World Cup. I run the website and wrote a book about it.

The Netherlands have won 36 UFWC title matches. Norway have never won in ten attempts. Should Norway manage to win the UFWC title for the very first time, they will defend the title in a WCQ match against Scotland on 2 August. If the Netherlands retain the title, they will take it into a friendly match on 12 August against England. So, whatever happens on Wednesday, the next UFWC match will involve a British challenger.

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The Unofficial Football World Championships website has a new range of T-shirts, featuring the UFWC trophy, mascot, and the colours of some UFWC champions. See the full range of shirts at the UFWC T-Shirt Shop.

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