Meet your team

Community

This is the chat home. The First Down Scotland Discord is where Scottish and UK fans of the same NFL team can actually talk, instead of hoping a Facebook group still exists. Pair it with the pub search when you want to meet in person and watch the games together with like-minded fans.

It is a small UK room, built in Scotland, for people who share a kick-off time as well as a club. You do not need to sound like a podcast. You need a team channel, a way to ask what a flag meant, and someone who will not post the score while you are still at work.

Updated for the 2026 NFL season. First Down Scotland editorial.

Discord

Join the Discord

Meet fans of your team. One server for Scottish and UK supporters: say hello in #general, then pick the channel for the club you follow. Lessons stay free on the site.

Join the Discord

NFL Scheme Battles

Which team runs the scheme?

Discord is the chat. The fan map is the live fight: choose your team, put your town on the map, and find your NFL community. Scotland first (Wishaw, Motherwell, East Kilbride, Paisley, Dundee), then the rest of the UK, so you can see which NFL club actually runs the scheme (the local area) where you live.

Open NFL Scheme Battles →

One First Down Scotland server: general chat for beginners, an NFL room for the week’s games, and a channel per team so you hang with fans of your side. That is the shape of it.

We are not building in-app chat. Discord already does rooms; we would only make a worse version. Fixtures, news and where to watch stay here as helpers. The lessons stay on this site, in order, for as long as you need them.

The longer version of finding people (what we will not invent about pubs, and how the town map fits next to the chat) is a guide. Read it before you trek across a city on the strength of an old blog post.

Same team, same pub

Meet in the real world

The Discord is for chat. Watch near you is the directory of Scottish bars checked as showing NFL this season. If your town is not on it yet, use your team channel to see who else is watching. You do not have to do it on your own.

Pubs near you → · Scheme Battles → · Pick my team →

Team channels

All 32 teams have their own channel. You will not find a wall of logos on this page: just pick your room once you are in. A few names you will see:

#general
#nfl
#chargers
#seahawks
#chiefs

Plus one for every other club. If you have not chosen a team yet, #general is the right place, and Pick my team will give you a side to walk in with.

How it works

Join the server, say hello in #general, and pick the channel for the team you support. Lurk until you have a side if you need to.
Use that team room to find other UK fans of the same club, and to arrange who is going to a pub from Watch near you.
Be decent. It is meant to be a small UK room for people still learning the sport, not a US sports-radio shout.
If someone asks for no spoilers, don’t post the score. Easy.
Beginners are the point. “What does 3rd & 12 mean?” will be a good question there.

House rules

Five things, then we’re away.

Be sound. Disagreement is fine; being a pain is not.
No hate, slurs, or pile-ons. This is a wee learning community, not a comment section.
No spam, and no betting tips or odds-pushing. We do not do that on the site either.
Beginners are welcome. Explain, don’t sneer.
Don’t spoil a game if people have asked you not to: UK kick-offs mean someone is always catching up.

New to the sport? Start the lessons. Kick-offs in UK time are a helper on this week’s games.