| Shirt | Player | Position | Club | Age | Caps | Goals |
| 1 | Jim Leighton | Goalkeeper | Aberdeen | 27 | 26 | 0 |
| 2 | Richard Gough | Defender | Dundee Utd | 24 | 23 | 3 |
| 3 | Maurice Malpas | Full-Back | Dundee Utd | 23 | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | Graeme Souness (captain) | Midfielder | Sampdoria | 33 | 52 | 4 |
| 5 | Alex McLeish | Defender | Aberdeen | 27 | 43 | 0 |
| 6 | Willie Miller | Defender | Aberdeen | 31 | 48 | 1 |
| 7 | Gordon Strachan | Midfielder | Manchester Utd | 29 | 34 | 3 |
| 8 | Roy Aitken | Midfielder | Celtic | 27 | 20 | 1 |
| 9 | Eamonn Bannon | Midfielder | Dundee Utd | 28 | 9 | 1 |
| 10 | Jim Bett | Midfielder | Aberdeen | 26 | 17 | 1 |
| 11 | Paul McStay | Midfielder | Celtic | 21 | 14 | 3 |
| 12 | Andy Goram | Goalkeeper | Oldham Athletic | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | Steve Nicol | Full-Back | Liverpool | 24 | 8 | 0 |
| 14 | David Narey | Defender | Dundee Utd | 29 | 28 | 1 |
| 15 | Arthur Albiston | Full-Back | Manchester Utd | 28 | 13 | 0 |
| 16 | Frank McAvennie | Forward | West Ham Utd | 26 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Steve Archibald | Forward | Barcelona | 29 | 26 | 4 |
| 18 | Graeme Sharp | Forward | Everton | 25 | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | Charlie Nicholas | Forward | Arsenal | 24 | 15 | 5 |
| 20 | Paul Sturrock | Forward | Dundee Utd | 29 | 17 | 3 |
| 21 | Davie Cooper | Winger | Rangers | 30 | 14 | 4 |
| 22 | Alan Rough | Goalkeeper | Hibernian | 34 | 53 | 0 |