Wales Kits History

Vintage and retro wales football shirts and training kit featuring home away and original match worn player editions.

Wales kits history. The medieval chronicler giraldus cambrensis gerald of wales had topography history and current events alike in mind when he observed that wales is a country very strongly defended by high mountains deep valleys extensive woods rivers and marshes. Tîm pêl droed cenedlaethol cymru represents wales in international football it is controlled by the football association of wales faw the governing body for football in wales and the third oldest national football association in the world founded in 1876. Y ddraig goch the red dragon of wales was woven into the home and change kits as a watermark but on the white set it was rendered in green. The wales national football team welsh.

The faw wales crest was given a facelift in 2012. Fans will get a chance to see the new cymru shirt first hand at the faw s match worn kit exhibition the art of the wales shirt at st fagans national museum of history cardiff starting on monday 11 november. Adidas with umbro sold off their kits all but disappeared and the faw adopted adidas as their technical sponsor for the euro 16 qualifiers. Insomuch that from the time the saxons took possession of the island the remnants of the britons retiring into these regions could never.

The team recorded the biggest rise in the history of the fifa world rankings moving from. It did not appear again. The new all red outfit was worn for the first time at the cardiff city stadium in a friendly. When wales played croatia on 24 august a neat new kit in pale yellow was used both wales home and away shirts would have clashed with croatia s checkerboard tops.

Our wales shirt selection spans classic from the 1970s up to present day. A new third kit from the kombat 2003 range was introduced in 2003 in a rich shade of blue with reversed seams picked out in yellow. In january 1876 llewellyn kenrick responded to a challenge printed in the field to raise a welsh football team to play a representative side from ireland or scotland in either the association or rugby code kenrick faced down his critics from south wales who argued that wales representative team should play rugby football and in february 1876 at a meeting held in the wynnstay. The yellow change strip was worn just once a 0 2 defeat in switzerland on 31 march 1999 as was the white version which was brought out when wales played qatar in doha in february 2000.