Profile of the Wales national football team, history, top score, most caps / appearances. FAW The Football Association of Wales is the football federation in Wales was founded on february 1876 in Wrexham, and represents governing body for football in Wales in a international competition and is controlled by FAW. Became a member of UEFA Affiliation in 1954 and FIFA Affiliation in 1910.
Wales played its first competitive match on 25 March 1876 against Scotland in Glasgow. The Welsh side, comprising ten players with connections in north Wales and a solitary player from the south of the country, lost 4-0. The return match the next year in Wrexham on 5 March 1877 also ended in a 2-0 defeat.
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| FAW Football Association of Wales | ||||
| Nation: Wales | Founded: 1876 | |||
| UEFA Affiliation: 1954 | FIFA Affiliation: 1910 | |||
| Web: http://www.faw.org.uk | Phone: +44 29 2043 5830 | |||
The Wales team have only qualified for a major international tournament once in their history, when Wales qualified for the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Wales did progress through UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying to the quarter-final, which was played on a home and away format.
FIFA World Cup 1958.
Group stage
Wales made its only World Cup finals tournament appearance in the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden. In their first World Cup (1958), they were in the group C together with Sweden, Hungary and Mexico. All 3 games Wales in group stage ended in a draw. In the first match agains Hungary a 1-1 draw, against Mexico a 1-1, and against Sweden a 0-0 draw match. All 3 games ended in a draw, so wales get 3 points, the same number of points obtained by hungary.
The success of Wales therefore was a great surprise, but the Welsh managed to draw all the group games and then beat the once-mighty Hungarians in a play-off match to decide which nation should follow Sweden into the knock-out stage. Had goal difference been the decider, Hungary would have gone through, as the Hungarians had a goal ratio 6-3 compared to 2-2 of Wales.
Play-off to quarter-finals
Wales 2-1 Hungary.
Quarter-finals
Wales' chances of victory against Brazil were hampered by an injury to John Charles that ruled him out of the match. Wales lost 1–0 with 17-year-old Pele scoring his first international goal. The goal made Pele the youngest ever World Cup goalscorer and Brazil went on to win the tournament.
Wales played most of their home matches at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. The stadium was built in 1999 on the site of the old National Stadium, known as Cardiff Arms Park, as the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) had been chosen to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup. Prior to 1989, Wales played their home games at the grounds of Cardiff City F.C., Swansea City A.F.C. and Wrexham F.C., but then came to an agreement with the WRU to use Cardiff Arms Park and, subsequently, the Millennium Stadium.
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Wales' first football match at the Millennium Stadium was against Finland on 29 March 2000. The Finns won the match 2–1, with Jari Litmanen becoming the first player to score a goal at the stadium. Ryan Giggs scored Wales' goal in the match, becoming the first Welshman to score at the stadium.
Some great Welsh players have performed with distinction on the world stage, including John Charles, who became an idol in Italy, Ian Rush, a feared goalscorer for Liverpool FC, and Ryan Giggs, who won the UEFA Champions League with Manchester United FC in 1999 and 2008.
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- Data :
- Association: Football Association of Wales (FAW)
- Home Stadium: Millennium Stadium, in Cardiff
- Address: 11/12 Neptune Court Vanguard Way CF24 5PJ CARDIFF
- Fax: +44 29 2049 6953
- Email: info@faw.co.uk
- FIFA Code: WAL
- UEFA European Championship Record
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| Host | Year | Round | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | ||
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1976 | Group-Stage | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | ||
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| [A] Yugoslavia 2-0 Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| [H] Wales 1-1 Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | = | 1/14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | ||
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- FIFA World Cup Record
| Wales FIFA World Cup Participations | ||||||||||
| Host | Year | Round | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | ||
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1958 | Group-Stage | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
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| Wales 2-1 Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||||
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| Brazil 1-0 Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | = | 1/19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
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- Most Appearances
| Most Caps of The Wales Team | |||
| Players | Goals | Caps | Periods |
| Neville Southall | 0 | 92 | 1982-1998 |
| Gary Speed | 7 | 85 | 1990-2004 |
| Dean Saunders | 22 | 75 | 1986-2001 |
| Peter Nicholas | 2 | 73 | 1979-1992 |
| Ian Rush | 28 | 73 | 1980-1996 |
| Mark Hughes | 16 | 72 | 1984-1999 |
| Joey Jones | 1 | 72 | 1976-1986 |
| Ivor Allchurch | 23 | 68 | 1951-1966 |
| Craig Bellamy | 19 | 67 | 1998-2011 |
| Bryan Flynn | 7 | 66 | 1975-1984 |
- Top Scores
| Top Scorers of The Wales Team | |||
| Players | Goals | Caps | Periods |
| Ian Rush | 28 | 73 | 1980-1996 |
| Ivor Allchurch | 23 | 68 | 1951-1966 |
| Trevor Ford | 23 | 38 | 1947-1957 |
| Dean Saunders | 22 | 75 | 1986-2001 |
| Craig Bellamy | 19 | 67 | 1998-2011 |
| Robert Earnshaw | 16 | 57 | 2002-2011 |
| Mark Hughes | 16 | 72 | 1984-1999 |
| Cliff Jones | 16 | 59 | 1954-1970 |
| John Charles | 15 | 38 | 1950-1965 |
| John Hartson | 14 | 51 | 1997-2005 |
References and External Links
Wales National Football Team Profile.
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