Weir and Little selected for Tokyo Games but Cuthbert misses out
Two Scotland players – Caroline Weir and Kim Little - have been selected in the Team GB squad for the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
Manager Hege Riise, currently interim boss of the England team, has picked an 18-strong squad, with two Scots, one Welsh player and 15 from England.
There are none from Northern Ireland for what will be Britain's second appearance at an Olympic Games in women's football. Perhaps surprisingly, there is also no place for Chelsea and Scotland striker Erin Cuthbert.
Little, of Arsenal, is one of five players who were also part of the squad for London 2012. English quartet Karen Bardsley, Steph Houghton, Jill Scott and Ellen White will also compete at their second Games.
Manchester City are the club with the most representatives in the squad with 11, including Weir, midfielder Scott and goalkeeper Bardsley.
“It’s huge for me personally,” said Weir. “I think it’s probably one of my greatest achievements so far to be selected, just because it was a long process with the postponement of the Games last season, and the pool of players that could have been chosen from all the nations.
“I’m delighted and very honoured to be part of Team GB. It’s huge and I’m really excited to kick things off in a few weeks.”
Other notable omissions include City's Alex Greenwood, Arsenal duo Jordan Nobbs and Beth Mead and Chelsea's Beth England. City forward Chloe Kelly, the quartet's fellow England player,
misses out after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury earlier this month.
Riise, who won Olympic gold as a player with Norway in 2000, said: "I know first hand as a former player just how proud my players will feel today at having been selected to represent Great Britain.
"We will go there aiming to win and we will give everything we have to achieve success. I hope that Great Britain's
inclusion once more in the Olympic football tournament can inspire the next generation of young girls to play the sport we love."
Team GB are in a group with Canada, Chile and hosts Japan for the tournament which is due to begin in July. The team will play three fixtures across eight days. The top two from the three groups will progress alongside the two best-ranked runners-up.