Wales national football team results 1946–1959

This article lists the results for the Wales national football team from the 1946 through to 1959.

Contents

1940s

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950s

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

Head to head records

Opponent P W D L GF GA %W %D %L
 Austria 2 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 100
 Belgium 2 1 0 1 6 4 50 0 50
 Brazil 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 100
 Czechoslovakia 2 1 0 1 1 2 50 0 50
 England 14 1 3 10 13 39 7.14 21.43 71.43
 France 1 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 100
 East Germany 2 1 0 1 5 3 50 0 50
 Hungary 2 1 1 0 3 1 50 50 0
 Ireland 4 1 1 2 3 4 25 25 50
 Northern Ireland[e] 9 4 3 2 15 13 0 0 0
 Israel 2 2 0 0 4 0 100 0 0
 Mexico 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 100 0
 Scotland 14 3 4 7 16 25 21.43 28.57 50
 Switzerland 2 1 0 1 3 6 100 0 100
 Sweden 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 100 0
 Portugal 2 2 0 1 4 4 100 0 100
 Rest of the United Kingdom 1 1 0 0 3 2 100 0 0
 Yugoslavia 2 0 0 2 2 8 0 0 100
Totals 65 19 14 32 81 123 29.23 21.54 49.23

P - Played; W - Won; D - Drawn; L - Lost

Notes

  1. Until 1950 both the Belfast-based Irish Football Association and the Dublin-based Football Association of Ireland claimed jurisdiction over the whole of Ireland and selected players from the whole island. Due to a number of players playing for both Associations in qualification games to the 1950 FIFA World Cup, FIFA intervened by restricting players' eligibility based on the political border.
    a The Wales vs Ireland match played on 8 March 1950 marks the last time an "all-Ireland" team repersented the IFA.
    b The IFA continued to be referred to as Ireland despite the new restrictions.
    d In 1953 FIFA ruled neither the IFA XI nor the FAI XI could be referred to as Ireland resulting in the IFA XI being referred to as Northern Ireland and the FAI XI being referred to as Republic of Ireland. (However, the Northern Irish team continued to play under the Ireland name well into the 1970s for British Home Championship).
    e Including all games after 1950 where teams are referred to as both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  2. c Exhibition match to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Football Association of Wales. The Rest of the United Kingdom team was made up of players repersenting the Football Associations of the other Home Nations, (England, Northern Ireland and Scotland).

See also

References

Bibliography

Notes

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