| Shirt | Player | Position | Club | Age | Caps | Goals |
| 1 | Alan Rough | Goalkeeper | Partick Thistle | 26 | 18 | 0 |
| 2 | Sandy Jardine | Full-Back | Rangers | 29 | 33 | 1 |
| 3 | Willie Donachie | Full-Back | Manchester City | 26 | 30 | 0 |
| 4 | Martin Buchan | Defender | Manchester Utd | 29 | 28 | 0 |
| 5 | Gordon McQueen | Defender | Manchester Utd | 25 | 20 | 3 |
| 6 | Bruce Rioch (captain) | Midfielder | Derby County | 30 | 22 | 6 |
| 7 | Don Masson | Midfielder | Derby County | 31 | 16 | 5 |
| 8 | Kenny Dalglish | Forward | Liverpool | 27 | 54 | 18 |
| 9 | Joe Jordan | Forward | Manchester Utd | 26 | 30 | 7 |
| 10 | Asa Hartford | Midfielder | Manchester City | 27 | 24 | 2 |
| 11 | Willie Johnston | Winger | West Bromwich Albion | 31 | 21 | 0 |
| 12 | Jim Blyth | Goalkeeper | Coventry City | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | Stuart Kennedy | Full-Back | Aberdeen | 25 | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | Tom Forsyth | Defender | Rangers | 29 | 19 | 0 |
| 15 | Archie Gemmill | Midfielder | Nottingham Forest | 31 | 26 | 3 |
| 16 | Lou Macari | Forward | Manchester Utd | 28 | 22 | 5 |
| 17 | Derek Johnstone | Forward | Rangers | 24 | 13 | 2 |
| 18 | Graeme Souness | Midfielder | Liverpool | 25 | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | John Robertson | Winger | Nottingham Forest | 25 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | Bobby Clark | Goalkeeper | Aberdeen | 32 | 17 | 0 |
| 21 | Joe Harper | Forward | Aberdeen | 30 | 4 | 7 |
| 22 | Kenny Burns | Defender | Nottingham Forest | 24 | 11 | 1 |