:Wales national amateur football team
{{Short description|Team formed in 1908 and disbanded in 1974}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox National football team
| Name = Wales Amateurs
| Flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg
| Badge_size =
| FIFA Trigramme = WAL
| Association = Football Association of Wales
| Most caps = Gilbert Lloyd (32)
| Top scorer = Graham Davies, Idwal Davies, Jack Nicholls (5)
| pattern_la1= |pattern_b1= |pattern_ra1= |pattern_sh1=_redsides |pattern_so1=
| leftarm1=FF0000|body1=FF0000|rightarm1=FF0000|shorts1=fff|socks1=FF0000|title1= Home
| pattern_la2= |pattern_b2= |pattern_ra2= |pattern_sh2= |pattern_so2=
| leftarm2=FFFF00|body2=FFFF00|rightarm2=FFFF00|shorts2=fff|socks2=FFFF00|title2= Away
| First game = England Amateurs {{flagicon|England}} 1–0 Wales Amateurs {{flagicon|Wales}}
(Edgeley Park, Stockport; 22 February 1908)
| Largest win = Scotland Amateurs {{flagicon|Scotland}} 1–5 Wales Amateurs {{flagicon|Wales}}
(Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh; 2 April 1932)
| Largest loss = Wales Amateurs {{flagicon|Wales}} 0–9 England Amateurs {{flagicon|England}}
(Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil; 24 January 1920)
|}}
The Wales national amateur football team was the amateur representative team for Wales at football. It was formed in 1908 and continued until 1974.
History
The Wales amateur national team played the majority of its fixtures versus the amateur representative teams of the other four Home Nations – England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It had a losing record against each nation and won the British Amateur Championship on two occasions (one joint), in the 1967–68{{cite book |last1=McColl |first1=Brian |last2=Gorman |first2=Douglas |last3=Campbell |first3=George | title= UK Amateur International Football: The Complete Record 1901-1974 |edition=2nd |year= 2017 |publisher=Lulu Enterprises Incorporated |isbn=978-1-326-35601-9 }}{{rp|page=279}} and 1973–74{{rp|page=326}} seasons. The team fared better in its matches against overseas opposition, winning its three matches versus Norwegian and South African representative teams, but losing on both occasions to the Netherlands. The squad was predominantly composed of players from Welsh non-league clubs Lovell's Athletic, Cardiff Corinthians, Bridgend Town, Bangor City, Llanelli and Porthmadog.{{Sfn|McColl|Gorman|Campbell|2017|p=342}}
The team's first fixture was a friendly match played versus England at Edgeley Park on 22 February 1908, with England's Vivian Woodward scoring the only goal of the game.{{Sfn|McColl|Gorman|Campbell|2017|p=31}} Thereafter the entirety of the team's fixtures took place against England until a friendly match versus South Africa in October 1924.{{Sfn|McColl|Gorman|Campbell|2017|p=64}} The team failed to register its first win{{huh?|date=July 2023|reason=Did the team have earlier wins that it failed to officially record?}} until 22 January 1921, when the Welsh beat England 2–0 at Molineux.{{Sfn|McColl|Gorman|Campbell|2017|p=64}} The team was disbanded in 1974, when the FA abolished the distinction between amateurism and professionalism in domestic football.
Venues
The team predominantly played its home matches at Farrar Road Stadium (Bangor), Vetch Field (Swansea) and Smithfield Athletic Ground (Aberystwyth).{{Cite web |url=http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |title=FORGOTTEN GLORIES – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974 |last1=McColl |first1=Brian |last2=Gorman |first2=Douglas |pages=10–22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728161609/http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2017 |access-date=16 July 2017 |last3=Campbell |first3=George |url-status=dead}}
Records
= Most appearances =
| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" style="width:5%;" |# ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Name ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Position ! scope="col" style="width:12%;" |Years ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Appearances ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Goals |
| 1
|{{Sortname|Gilbert|Lloyd|nolink=1}} |WH/FW |1962–1973 |32 |3 |
| 2
|{{Sortname|George|Renton|nolink=1}} |WH |1965–1972 |27 |0 |
| 3
|{{Sortname|Arthur|Evans|nolink=1}} |WH |1950–1959 |26 |0 |
| 4
|{{Sortname|Glyn|Owen|nolink=1}} |WH |1953–1961 |20 |1 |
| 5
|{{Sortname|Alan|Phillips|nolink=1}} |WH |1967–1973 |19 |0 |
| 6
|{{Sortname|Trefor|Owen}} |CH |1952–1958 |17 |0 |
| 7
|{{Sortname|Brinley|Powell|nolink=1}} |FB |1960–1967 |16 |0 |
| 8
|{{Sortname|Peter|Rees|dab=footballer}} |OF |1952–1958 |16 |3 |
| 9
|{{Sortname|David|McCarter|nolink=1}} |FW |1962–1967 |15 |1 |
| 10
|{{Sortname|Phil|Woosnam}} |FW |1952–1957 |16 |4 |
= Most goals =
| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" style="width:5%;" |# ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Name ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Position ! scope="col" style="width:12%;" |Years ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Goals9 players finished their amateur international careers with 3 goals – G. Davies, K. Davies, L.O. Davies, M. Griffiths, Phil Holme, Sam Jones, Gilbert Lloyd, Peter Rees and T. Reynolds. ! scope="col" style="width:10%;" |Appearances |
| 1
|{{Sortname|Graham|Davies|nolink=1}} |FW |1960–1962 |5 |4 |
| 2
|{{Sortname|Idwal|Davies|dab=footballer}} |CF |1921–1926 |5 |7 |
| 3
|{{Sortname|Jack|Nicholls|dab=footballer}} |IR |1923–1930 |5 |10 |
| 4
|{{Sortname|K. E.|Fitzgerald|nolink=1}} |FW |1960–1964 |4 |5 |
| 5
|{{Sortname|Graham|Reynolds|dab=cricketer}} |CF |1958–1965 |4 |12 |
| 6
|{{Sortname|Geoff|Anthony|nolink=1}} |OF |1966–1974 |4 |13 |
| 7
|{{Sortname|Phil|Woosnam}} |FW |1952–1957 |4 |16 |
{{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}