Gordon Strachan will be staying as Scotland manager, he and SFA chief executive Stewart Regan have confirmed.
The SFA board has held a review of the national team’s performance in the World Cup qualifiers, which has produced just four points from four games, with the last two matches being 3-0 defeats.
Strachan has “provided his feedback” and the governing body are happy that he remains the man to dig them out of the Group F hole.
The next qualifier is against Slovenia at Hampden Park in March and Strachan, who many suspected would resign after last week’s heavy defeat to England, insisted he still has fight left in him, and that getting to Russia from second bottom of their group is not mission impossible.
He said: “We were all extremely disappointed with the result on Friday night but having reflected on our performance, I still believe we can get ourselves back into contention in the group.
“There are still 18 points to play for and the players, the staff and I, as in previous games, will give everything we have to turn things around.
“I have said consistently that our fans deserve success and a return to a major tournament finals.
“Although we have had a difficult start to the campaign, I firmly believe that this group of players, together with our supporters, can maximise our chances of a play-off place, starting with the home match against Slovenia in March.”
Regan said: “The board have considered the team’s performance since the start of the campaign and subsequently discussed the disappointing points total after four matches.
“Gordon shared the disappointment of the board and, of course, the fans. He is adamant, however, that we can recover the position and believes a play-off place still to be attainable.
“The board are convinced that he still has the hunger for this challenge and we have four home qualifiers in 2017 to rejuvenate our campaign.
“We support Gordon unanimously in improving our qualification prospects.”
