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This article lists the results for the Wales national football team from 1980 through to 1999.

1980s

1980

17 May 1980 1980 British Champ. Wales  4 – 1  England Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Mickey Thomas 19'
Robbie James 30'
Ian Walsh 60'
Phil Thompson 66' (o.g.)
16' Paul Mariner Attendance: 24,358
21 May 1980 1980 British Champ. Scotland  1 – 0  Wales Scotland Hampden Park, Glasgow
Willie Miller 23'
23 May 1980 1980 British Champ. Wales  0 – 1  Northern Ireland Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 20' Noel Brotherston
2 Jun 1980 1982 World Cup Qual. Iceland  0 – 4  Wales Iceland Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Report 45', 75' Ian Walsh
53' David Giles
65' (pen.) Brian Flynn
Attendance: 10,254
Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)
15 Oct 1980 1982 World Cup Qual. Wales  4 – 0  Turkey Ninian Park, Cardiff
Brian Flynn 19'
Leighton James 37' (pen.), 85'
Ian Walsh 79'
Report Attendance: 11,770
Referee: Torben Månsson (Denmark)

1981

24 Feb 1981 Friendly Republic of Ireland  1 –3  Wales Republic of Ireland Tolka Park, Dublin
Tony Grealish 25' 35' Paul Price
38' Terry Boyle
89' Terry Yorath
Referee: P Reeves (England)
25 Mar 1981 1982 World Cup Qual. Turkey  0 – 1  Wales Turkey Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara
Report 67' Carl Harris Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Sándor Kúti (Hungary)
16 May 1981 1981 British Champ. Wales  2 – 0  Scotland Vetch Field, Swansea
Walsh ?', 20' Attendance: 19,995
Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)
20 May 1981 1981 British Champ. England  0 – 0  Wales England Wembley Stadium, London
Attendance: 34,280
Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)
May 1981 1981 British Champ. Northern Ireland  cancelled[a]  Wales Northern Ireland Windsor Park, Belfast
14 Nov 1981 1982 World Cup Qual. Wales  2 – 2  Iceland Vetch Field, Swansea
Robbie James 25'
Alan Curtis 54'
Report 47', 61' Ásgeir Sigurvinsson Attendance: 19,783
Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)

1982

24 Mar 1982 Friendly Spain  1 – 1  Wales Spain Estadio Luíz Casanova, Valencia
Jesus Maria Satrustegui 25' 52' Robbie James Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Enzo Barbesco (Italy)
27 Apr 1982 1982 British Champ. Wales  0 – 1  England Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 74' Trevor Francis Attendance: 22,932
Referee: O Donnelly (Northern Ireland)
24 May 1982 1982 British Champ. Scotland  1 – 0  Wales Scotland Hampden Park, Glasgow
Asa Hartford 7' Attendance: 28,284
Referee: F McKnight (Northern Ireland)
27 May 1982 1982 British Champ. Wales  3 – 0  Northern Ireland Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Alan Curtis 18'
Ian Rush 64'
Peter Nicholas 75'
Attendance: 2,315
Referee: G Smith (Scotland)
2 Jun 1982 Friendly France  0 – 1  Wales France Stadium Municipal, Toulouse
Rush 55' Attendance: 35,000
22 Sep 1982 Euro 1983 Qual. Wales  1 – 0  Norway Vetch Field, Swansea
Ian Rush 30' Report Attendance: 4,340
Referee: Joël Quiniou (FRA)

1983

23 Feb 1983 1983 British Champ. England  2 – 1  Wales England Wembley Stadium, London
Terry Butcher 39'
Phil Neal 78' (pen.)
14' Rush Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
28 May 1983 1983 British Champ. Wales  0 – 2  Scotland Ninian Park, Cardiff
15:00 12' Andy Gray
?' Alan Brazil
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland)
31 May 1983 1983 British Champ. Northern Ireland  0 – 1  Wales Northern Ireland Windsor Park, Belfast
64' Gordon Davies Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Hugh Alexander (Scotland)
12 Jun 1983 Friendly Wales  1 – 1  Brazil Ninian Park, Cardiff
15:00 Brian Flynn 4' 60' Paulo Isidoro Attendance: 33,491
Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)
21 Sep 1983 Euro 1983 Qual. Norway  0 – 0  Wales Norway Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Report Attendance: 17,575
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
12 Oct 1983 Friendly Wales  5 – 0  Romania Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Ian Rush 13', 29'
Mickey Thomas 24'
Robbie James 66'
Alan Curtis 90'
Attendance: 4,161
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
14 Dec 1983 Euro 1983 Qual. Wales  1 – 1  Yugoslavia Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 Robbie James 54' Report 81' Mehmed Baždarević Attendance: 25,082
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

1984

28 Feb 1984 1984 British Champ. Scotland  2 – 1  Wales Scotland Hampden Park, Glasgow
Davie Cooper
Mo Johnston
Robbie James Attendance: 21,542
Referee: Poucher (Northern Ireland)
2 May 1984 1984 British Champ. Wales  1 – 0  England Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
19:30 Mark Hughes 17' Attendance: 15,000
Referee: David Syme (Scotland)
22 May 1984 1984 British Champ. Wales  1 – 1  Northern Ireland Vetch Field, Swansea
19:30 Mark Hughes 51' 73' Gerry Armstrong Attendance: 7,845
Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)
6 Jun 1984 Friendly Norway  1 – 0  Wales Norway Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim
Arne Larsen Oekland 76' Attendance: 13,654
10 Jun 1984 Friendly Israel  0 – 0  Wales Israel Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan
Attendance: 3,000
12 Sep 1984 1986 World Cup qual. Iceland  1 – 0  Wales Iceland Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Magnus Bergs 50' Report Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Steen Jenssen (Denmark)
14 Nov 1984 1986 World Cup qual. Wales  2 – 1  Iceland Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 Mickey Thomas 36'
Mark Hughes 62'
Report Pétur Pétursson 56' Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Edward Farrell (Republic of Ireland)

1985

26 Feb 1985 Friendly Wales  1 – 1  Norway Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Ian Rush 45' Ahlsen Attendance: 4,532
Referee: Stewart (Northern Ireland)
27 Mar 1985 1986 World Cup qual. Scotland  0 – 1  Wales Scotland Hampden Park, Glasgow
Report Ian Rush 37' Attendance: 62,444
Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
30 Apr 1985 1986 World Cup qual. Wales  3 – 0  Spain Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Ian Rush 44', 88'
Mark Hughes 53'
Report Attendance: 23,494
Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)
5 Jun 1985 Friendly Norway  4 – 2  Wales Norway Brann Stadion, Bergen
Trond Sollied 3'
Arne Larsen Økland 9'
Neil Slatter 18' (og.)
Pål Jacobsen 78'
42' Steve Lovell
78' Mark Hughes
Attendance: 5,596
10 Sep 1985 1986 World Cup qual. Wales  1 – 1  Scotland Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 BST Mark Hughes 13' Report 80' (pen.) Davie Cooper Attendance: 39,500
Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)
16 Oct 1985 Friendly Wales  0 – 3  Hungary Ninian Park, Cardiff
19:30 BST 8' Márton Esterházy
51' Gyula Hajszán
89' Lajos Détári
Attendance: 3,505
Referee: George Hyndes (Northern Ireland)

1986

25 Feb 1986 Friendly Saudi Arabia  1 – 2  Wales Saudi Arabia Jalawi Stadium, Khobar
Al-Thunayan 66' (pen.) Report 47' Neil Slatter
60' Gordon Davies
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Saad Rabiah (Saudi Arabia)
26 Mar 1986 Friendly Republic of Ireland  0 – 1  Wales Republic of Ireland Lansdowne Road, Dublin
17' Ian Rush Attendance: 16,500
Referee: Kenneth Hope (Scotland)
21 Apr 1986 Friendly Wales  0 – 0  Uruguay Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Attendance: 11,154
10 May 1986 Friendly Canada  2 – 0  Wales Canada North York Civic Stadium, Toronto
Gray 34'
Vrablic 44'
Attendance: 13,142
19 May 1986 Friendly Canada  0 – 3  Wales Canada Empire Stadium, Vancouver
11', 49' Dean Saunders
81' Malcolm Allen
Attendance: 9,007
10 Sep 1986 Euro 1988 Qual. Finland  1 – 1  Wales Finland Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
Ari Hjelm 11' Report 68' Neil Slatter Attendance: 9,840
Referee: Gerald Losert (AUT)

1987

18 Feb 1987 Friendly Wales  0 – 0  Soviet Union Vetch Field, Swansea
Attendance: 17,617
Referee: A Ritchie (Northern Ireland)
9 Sep 1987 Euro 1988 Qual. Wales  1 – 0  Denmark Ninian Park, Cardiff
Mark Hughes 19' Report Attendance: 20,535
Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)
14 Oct 1987 Euro 1988 Qual. Denmark  1 – 0  Wales Denmark Idrætsparken, Copenhagen
Preben Elkjær Larsen 50' Report Attendance: 44,500
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

1988

23 Mar 1988 Friendly Wales  1 – 2  Yugoslavia Vetch Field, Swansea
Dean Saunders 7' 43' Dragan Stojković
72' Dragan Jakovljević
Attendance: 5,985
27 Apr 1988 Friendly Sweden  4 – 1  Wales Sweden Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm
Hans Holmqvist ?', ?'
Glenn Strömberg
Hans Eskilsson
27' Glyn Hodges Attendance: 11,656
1 Jun 1988 Friendly Malta  2 – 3  Wales Malta National Stadium, Valletta
Carmel Busuttil 15', 23' 9' Barry Horne
53' Mark Hughes
75' Ian Rush
Attendance: 7,000
4 Jun 1988 Friendly Italy  0 – 1  Wales Italy Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia
37' Ian Rush Attendance: 21,000
14 Sep 1988 1990 World Cup qual. Netherlands  1 – 0  Wales Netherlands Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam
Gullit 82' Report Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

1989

8 Feb 1989 Friendly Israel  3 – 3  Wales Israel Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan
Nir Klinger 6'
Alon 7'
Drieks 73'
11' Barry Horne
57' (og.) Eitan Aharoni
87' Malcolm Allen
Attendance: 6,000
26 Apr 1989 Friendly Wales  0 – 2  Sweden Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
30' Dennis Schiller
56' (og.) Kevin Ratcliffe
Attendance: 8,000
11 Oct 1989 1990 World Cup qual. Wales  1 – 2  Netherlands Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Bowen 89' Report Rutjes 13'
Bosman 79'
Attendance: 9,025
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

1990s

1990

28 Mar 1990 Friendly Republic of Ireland  1 – 0  Wales Republic of Ireland Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Bernie Slaven 86' Attendance: 41,350
Referee: Alan Gunn (England)
25 Apr 1990 Friendly Sweden  4 – 2  Wales Sweden Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm
Tomas Brolin ?', ?'
Klas Ingesson ?', ?'
14', 59' Dean Saunders Attendance: 13,981
Referee: Ruokonen (Finland)
8 Feb 1990 Friendly Wales  1 – 0  Costa Rica Ninian Park, Cardiff
Dean Saunders 10' Attendance: 5,977
Referee: Martino (Switzerland)
11 Sep 1990 Friendly Denmark  1 – 0  Wales Denmark Idrætsparken, Copenhagen
Brian Laudrup 64' Attendance: 8,700
Referee: Palsi (Finland)
14 Nov 1990 Euro 1992 Qual. Luxembourg  0 – 1  Wales Luxembourg Stade Municipal, Luxembourg
Report 15' Rush Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Jiří Ulrich (Czechoslovakia)

1991

6 Feb 1991 Friendly Wales  0 – 3  Republic of Ireland Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Niall Quinn 23', 66'
John Byrne 86'
Attendance: 9,168
Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)
1 May 1991 Friendly Wales  1 – 0  Iceland National Stadium, Cardiff
Paul Bodin 35' (pen.) Report Attendance: 3,656
Referee: Ritchie (Northern Ireland)
29 May 1991 Friendly Poland  0 – 0  Wales Poland Radomiak Stadium, Radom
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Holzmann (Austria)
5 Jun 1991 Euro 1992 Qual. Wales  1 – 0  Germany National Stadium, Cardiff
Ian Rush 66' Report Red card 61' Thomas Berthold Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
11 Sep 1991 Friendly Wales  1 – 0  Brazil National Stadium, Cardiff
Dean Saunders 58' Attendance: 20,000
Referee: S. Aladren (Spain)
13 Nov 1991 Euro 1992 Qual. Wales  1 – 0  Luxembourg National Stadium, Cardiff
Bodin 82' (pen.) Report Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

1992

29 Apr 1992 Friendly Austria  1 – 1  Wales Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Michael Bauer 58' 72' Chris Coleman Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Sandor Puhl (Hungary)
20 May 1992 1994 World Cup qual. Romania  5 – 1  Wales Romania Ghencea, Bucharest
Gheorghe Hagi 5', 35'
Ioan Lupescu 7', 24'
Gavril Balint 31'
Report 50' Ian Rush Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Fabio Baldas (Italy)
29 Mar 1992 Friendly Netherlands  4 – 0  Wales Netherlands Nieuw Galgenwaard, Utrecht
Ruud Gullit 16', 37'
Aron Winter 74'
Wim Jonk 83'
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Esa Palsi (Sweden)
3 Jun 1992 Japan 1992 Kirin Cup Argentina  1 – 0  Wales Japan Nagaragawa Stadium, Gifu
Gabriel Batistuta 89' Attendance: 31,000
Referee: Tachi (Japan)
7 Jun 1992 Japan 1992 Kirin Cup Japan  0 – 1  Wales Japan Ningineer Stadium, Matsuyama
40' Mark Bowen
Red card 60' Iwan Roberts
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Yam-Ming (Hong Kong)
14 Oct 1992 1994 World Cup qual. Cyprus  0 – 1  Wales Cyprus Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
Report 51' Hughes Attendance: 12,000
Referee: László Vágner (Hungary)
18 Nov 1992 1994 World Cup qual. Belgium  2 – 0  Wales Belgium Vanden Stock Stadium, Anderlecht
Staelens 53'
Degryse 58'
Report Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

1993

17 Feb 1993 Friendly Republic of Ireland  2 – 1  Wales Republic of Ireland Tolka Park, Dublin
Kevin Sheedy 76'
Tommy Coyne 81'
18' Mark Hughes Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
31 Mar 1993 1994 World Cup qual. Wales  2 – 0  Belgium National Stadium, Cardiff
Giggs 18'
Rush 39'
Report Attendance: 27,002
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
28 Apr 1993 1994 World Cup qual. RCS  1 – 1  Wales Czech Republic Bazaly, Ostrava
Radoslav Látal 41' Report 29' Mark Hughes Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
13 Oct 1993 1994 World Cup qual. Wales  2 – 0  Cyprus National Stadium, Cardiff
Dean Saunders 70'
Ian Rush 86'
Report Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Philip Don (England)

1994

9 Mar 1994 Friendly Wales  1 – 3  Norway Ninian Park, Cardiff
Chris Coleman 89' 6'Jostein Flo
49'Erik Mykland
51'Mini Jakobsen
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: John Ferry (Northern Ireland)
20 Apr 1994 Friendly Wales  0 – 2  Sweden Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
83'Larsson
90'Thomas Brolin
Attendance: 4,694
Referee: Brendan Shorte (Republic of Ireland)
25 May 1994 Friendly Estonia  1 – 2  Wales Estonia Kadrioru Stadium, Tallinn
Martin Reim 86' ((pen)) 56' Ian Rush
83' David Phillips
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Roman Lajuks (Latvia)
7 Sep 1994 Euro 1996 qual. Wales  2 – 0  Albania National Stadium, Cardiff
Chris Coleman 9'
Ryan Giggs 67'
Attendance: 15,791
Referee: Gianni Beschin (Italy)

1995

26 Apr 1995 Euro 1996 qual. Germany  1 – 1  Wales Germany Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Heiko Herrlich 42' 8' Dean Saunders Attendance: 43,461
Referee: José Encinar (Spain)
7 Jun 1995 Euro 1996 qual. Wales  0 – 1  Georgia National Stadium, Cardiff
Vinnie Jones Red card 27' 73' Georgi Kinkladze Attendance: 8,241
Referee: Ilkka Koho (Finland)
6 Sep 1995 Euro 1996 qual. Wales  1 – 0  Moldova National Stadium, Cardiff
Gary Speed 55' Attendance: 6,721
Referee: Gylfi Thór Orrason (Iceland)
15 November 1995 Euro 1996 qual. Albania  1 – 1  Wales Albania Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana
Sokol Kushta 5' (pen.) 43' Pembridge Attendance: 5,500
Referee: David Suheil (Israel)

1996

24 Jan 1996 Friendly Italy  3 – 0  Wales Italy Stadio Libero Liberati, Terni
Alessandro Del Piero 1'
Fabrizio Ravanelli 49'
Pierluigi Casiraghi 76'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
24 Apr 1996 Friendly Switzerland  2 – 0  Wales Switzerland Stadio Cornaredo, Lugano
Chris Coleman 31' (og.)
Kubilay Türkyilmaz 41' (pen)
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Loris Stafoggia (Italy)
14 Dec 1996 1998 World Cup qual. Wales  0 – 0  Turkey National Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Aron Huzu (Romania)

1997

11 Feb 1997 Friendly Wales  0 – 0  Republic of Ireland Ninian Park, Cardiff
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: William Young (Scotland)
27 May 1997 Friendly Scotland  0 – 1  Wales Scotland Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
15:00 46' John Hartson Attendance: 9,013
Referee: Snoddy (Northern Ireland)
11 Nov 1997 Friendly Brazil  3 – 0  Wales Brazil Estádio Mané Garrincha, Brasilia
Rodrigo Fabri
Rivaldo
Zinho
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Javier Castrillo (Argentina)

1998

25 Mar 1998 Friendly Wales  0 – 0  Jamaica Ninian Park, Cardiff
Red card Onandi Lowe Attendance: 13,349
Referee: Dougal (Scotland)
4 Jun 1998 Friendly Malta  0 – 3  Wales Malta National Stadium, Valletta
25' Craig Bellamy
67' John Hartson
78' (pen.) Mark Pembridge
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Rodomoti (Italy)
6 Jun 1998 Friendly Tunisia  4 – 0  Wales Tunisia Stade El Menzah, Tunis
Ben Younes 18'
Badra 28', 83' (pen.)
Jabballah 68'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Mourad Ben Dadi (Algeria)
5 Sep 1998 Euro 2000 qual. Wales  0 – 2  Italy England Anfield Road, Liverpool[b]
Report 19' Diego Fuser
77'Christian Vieri
Attendance: 23,160
Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

1999

31 Mar 1999 Euro 2000 qual. Switzerland  2 – 0  Wales Switzerland Letzigrund Stadion, Zürich
Chapuisat 4', 70' Report Attendance: 13,500
Referee: Miroslav Liba (Czech Republic
9 Jun 1999 Euro 2000 qual. Wales  0 – 2  Denmark England Anfield Road, Liverpool[b]
Report 84' Jon Dahl Tomasson
89' (pen.) Stig Tøfting
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Armand Ancion (Belgium)
4 Sep 1999 Euro 2000 qual. Belarus  1 – 2  Wales Belarus Dinamo, Minsk
Vasili Baranov 30' Report 42' Dean Saunders
86' Ryan Giggs
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (NOR)

Notes

  1. a
  2. b Match played in Liverpool due to the lack of proper stadia against a major opponent

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Hayes, Dean P. (2004). Wales: The Complete Who's Who of Footballers Since 1946. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3700-9.
  • Oliver, Guy (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-954-4.

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