The WFDA Project
THE Welsh Football Data Archive (WFDA) involved a number of researchers and historians within Wales and beyond, had a number of aims. The project began with an intention of compiling a full list of Welsh Cup match results from 1876 to the present day, and details of each final.
This was achieved and the end product was a more comprehensive set of results than that held by the FAW.
The intention was that in due course the archive would include the full results of all Wales international matches complete with team line-ups. There was also an intention to produce an archive of all the leagues that have existed in Wales and their histories, from the early attempts in the 1890s to the present day.
For the leagues, the long-term aim was to record the history including the formation of the league, its development and in most cases its demise, with as many final tables from the league’s lifespan as possible.
Where tables were not available, a list of champions and member clubs for each season in question is the desired alternative.
A list of the 90 or so leagues that are known to have existed in Wales was compiled and work on this part of the project was reasonably well advanced. Details of individual leagues were to be be added to the website as the work was completed.
Recent updates have been limited in a nature and related to the amateur and senior matche, plus some league tables. It is hoped in the near future to re-design the website and add more information from the records we hold from our extensive research.
The Welsh Football Data Archive is a major resource for football fans, historians, the media and of course the Football Association of Wales and is intended to provide a readily accessible source of detailed information on soccer, past and present, in Wales. We will do our best to help with any queries but please note that information on specific players can be difficult to locate particularly if they did not play in the Welsh Premier League or the Football League. We can be reached via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Please ensure your email address is valid and your in-box is not full! If you have tried in the past to contact us and not had a response, please accept our apololgies. We now have a new contact point which actually works.
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The Keith Harding Collection
A unique collection of photographs assembled by the late Keith Harding, who was chairman of Newtown Football Club for seven years, during which time the club became one of the Welsh Premier League's most successful clubs, and made UEFA Cup appearances in 1996 and 1998.
His legacy is the biggest collection of graphic material yet and hopefully an incentive for other clubs to research and make available their football heritage in the same way. Click to view the collection >>