# Belgian Sebastien Pocognoli appointed Scotland head coach 2026-08-16T23:36:37+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Former Monaco manager Sebastien Pocognoli has been named Scotland's new head coach on an initial two-year contract, replacing Steve Clarke who resigned after the national team's group-stage exit at the World Cup in June. The Scottish Football Association confirmed the appointment on Sunday. The 39-year-old Belgian, a former West Brom and Brighton left-back, led Union Saint-Gilloise to the Belgian title in 2024-25 in his first season as head coach before joining Monaco last October. At Monaco, he took the club into the Champions League knockout phase but was sacked in June after a seventh-placed Ligue 1 finish. Pocognoli is only the second foreign coach to manage Scotland, after Germany's Berti Vogts from 2002-04. Sportstar reports he will begin his tenure with a Nations League opener away to Slovenia in Ljubljana on September 26. ## Coverage - sportstar.thehindu.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Scotland national football team, Sebastien Pocognoli Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/belgian-sebastien-pocognoli-appointed-scotland-head-coach/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/belgian-sebastien-pocognoli-appointed-scotland-head-coach/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/