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The Wales women’s national football team represents Wales in international women’s football. Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks. The following players have been called up for the team wales v russia women’s football the last 12 months.

Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the men’s senior team. For the women’s senior team, see Wales women’s national football team. Although part of the United Kingdom, Wales has always had a representative side that plays in major professional tournaments, though not in the Olympic Games, as the International Olympic Committee has always recognised United Kingdom representative sides. During their history, Wales have qualified for two major international tournaments. They reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 FIFA World Cup and reached the semi-finals of UEFA Euro 2016. At all levels, including the youth teams, the Welsh national team draws players primarily from clubs in the English football league system. The main professional Welsh clubs play in the English leagues, with some full-time and part-time professional clubs playing in the Welsh football league system.

Report of The Cardiff Times about Wales’ first competitive match against Scotland in 1876. Wales played its first competitive match on 25 March 1876 against Scotland in Glasgow, making it the third oldest international football team in the world. The associations of the four Home Nations met in Manchester on 6 December 1882 to set down a set of worldwide rules. The FAW became members of FIFA, world football’s governing body, in 1906, but the relationship between FIFA and the British associations was fraught and the British nations withdrew from FIFA in 1928 in a dispute over payments to amateur players. As a result, Wales did not enter the first three FIFA World Cups.

Wales made its only World Cup finals tournament appearance in the 1958 edition in Sweden. However, their path to qualification was unusual. 40th anniversary of the World Cup and was also the inspiration for a Bafta Cymru-nominated documentary. Wales had never qualified for the finals tournament of the UEFA European Championship since its inception in 1960. Prior to 1980, only four countries qualified for the finals tournament, and Wales were drawn to play against the winners of Group 3—Yugoslavia—on a home and away basis match. The following year, Wales defeated England on English soil for the first time in 42 years and secured their only victory to date at Wembley Stadium thanks to a Leighton James penalty. Mark Hughes marked his debut for Wales by scoring the only goal of the match as England were defeated once again in 1984.

0 at The Racecourse during qualification for the 1986 World Cup. Under Terry Yorath, Wales attained what was then their highest FIFA world ranking on 27 August 1993. Again Wales came close to qualifying for a major championship when they came within a whisker of reaching the 1994 World Cup. Following the failure to qualify, Yorath’s contract as manager of the national side was not renewed by the FAW, and John Toshack—the then-manager of Real Sociedad—was appointed on a part-time basis. Gould’s time in charge of Wales is seen as a dark period by Welsh football fans. Under Mark Hughes, Wales came close to qualifying for a place at Euro 2004 in Portugal, being narrowly defeated by Russia in the play-offs.

UEFA Group 6, Hughes left his role with the national team to take over as manager of English Premier League outfit Blackburn Rovers. 0 against Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein, respectively. 1 away loss to Switzerland prompted the FAW to pass over Flynn. Gary Speed was appointed as permanent manager on 14 December 2010.

Due to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, a Great Britain team would qualify as of right of being the host nation. However, the FAW stressed it was strongly against the proposal. Chris Coleman was appointed Wales team manager on 19 January 2012. Wales were placed in Group B for qualifying for Euro 2016 alongside Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Israel.