4 of Scotland's 5 European representatives are nonetheless standing as we put together for this week's play-off rounds, with three assured league part motion throughout Uefa's competitions.
Nevertheless, the larger image shouldn't be fairly so rosy, with a lot tougher qualification routes on the horizon except important strides are made on this marketing campaign.
Celtic and Rangers are bidding for locations within the Champions League, towards Kairat and Membership Brugge respectively, whereas Aberdeen tackle FCSB of Bucharest within the Europa League.
The losers of these ties drop to the subsequent match, however there is no such thing as a such security web for Hibernian, who tackle Legia Warsaw for a Convention League spot.
“It is an enormous week,” Gavin Midday, who runs the X account Scotland's Coefficient, instructed BBC Scotland.
“On the finish of the season, Uefa will rank all of the nations based mostly on the quantity of factors collected during the last 5 years.
“Because it stands, Scotland are seventeenth and we actually want to complete fifteenth, so we would like as many groups to choose up as many factors as potential.”
