The Best Scottish Football Podcasts Right Now
Scottish football podcasts
The Scottish football podcasts worth your time.
From Off the Ball to The Terrace. The shows that built their audience by staying tribal. A guide to the Scottish football podcasts reshaping how fans engage with the game.
Across all of Scottish football
The national shows
Off the Ball
Off the Ball, presented by Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove, remains the gold standard for Scottish football podcasting. It has been running for years, spawned a TV show, and built a devoted audience through honest analysis and genuine personality.
What makes Off the Ball work is that it refuses to be a predictable weekly recap of who won and who lost. Instead, Cowan and Cosgrove dig into stories, context, culture and the things that make football interesting beyond the match result.
Scottish Football Podcast
The Scottish Football Podcast offers consistent, accessible coverage of Scottish football across all the leagues that matter. It's particularly useful if you follow more than one team or want a broader view of what's happening outside the Old Firm.
It's reliably produced and never gets bogged down in tribalism, which makes it useful background listening during the week.
The Terrace
The Terrace has become one of the most devoted lower-league Scottish football shows. It covers the Scottish Championship and below with the kind of depth and consistency that makes the audience fiercely loyal.
If you follow Dunfermline, Queen of the South, Ayr or any other lower-league club and want a show that treats your team seriously, this is it.
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The shows built around club loyalty
The club-specific shows
Open Goal
Open Goal started as a YouTube channel and became one of the most listened-to football podcasts in the UK.
Simon Ferry, Paul Slane and a rotating cast of ex-pros take the funnier side of the game seriously — genuinely great player interviews, solid Scottish Premiership coverage, and the kind of relaxed chemistry that takes years to build.
A Celtic State of Mind
A Celtic State of Mind, or ACSOM, is the gold standard for club-specific Scottish football podcasting.
Hosted by author and documentary-maker Paul John Dykes, it offers topical Celtic discussion, debate and insight. Over 2,000 episodes and a genuinely loyal following that it organises live events for.
Heart and Hand
Heart and Hand is the Rangers equivalent — a long-running, fan-first show hosted by David Edgar that doesn't shirk the major issues at Ibrox and revels in being for Rangers fans, by Rangers fans.
Funny, often controversial, and reliably consistent in a way that's earned it a loyal following over many years.
The national team
The Scotland podcast for the World Cup build-up
The Hampden Roar, hosted by Andy Bargh, is the only podcast dedicated entirely to the Scotland national team.
It features interviews with former players and managers as well as debates and discussions on current players, squad selections and matches. With Scotland having qualified for the 2026 World Cup, it's become essential listening for anyone following the national side.
Why these podcasts work
A note on what makes these shows work
What every podcast on this list has in common — from Off the Ball to ACSOM to The Terrace — is that they were built for a specific listener and stayed true to that listener over time.
None of them went broad to chase numbers. The ones with the most loyal followings are the ones that went deepest into their particular corner of the game and trusted that the right people would find them.
That's the tribal approach at work. It's the reason ACSOM can sell out live shows with former Celtic players, why The Terrace has a genuinely devoted lower-league following, and why Off the Ball has outlasted every other Scottish football broadcast of its generation.
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