At the same press conference that Andy Roxburgh resigned, it was announced that his assistant Craig Brown was to be temporarily put in charge. There was still two World Cup Qualifiers to be played against Italy and Malta, and Craig Brown's first game in charge was at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome with a crowd of 61,000. That game finished 3-1 to Italy. Just hours before the game away to Malta, Craig Brown was confirmed as the new Scotland Manager, and he completed the 1994 World Cup campaign with a 2-0 win.

When Craig Brown took charge it was not just a new manager that Scotland was getting, there was a change in the line-up also. Players such as Richard Gough, Maurice Malpas, and Alex McLeish had played their last game for Scotland and a new set of players that included Colin Hendry, Colin Calderwood, and Craig Burley had taken their place.