| THE Welsh Football Data Archive (WFDA), which involves a number of researchers and historians within Wales and beyond, has 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 has now been achieved and the end product is a more comprehensive set of results than that held by the FAW.
In due course the archive will include
the full results of all Wales international matches complete
with team line-ups, but the present focus is 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 intention is 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 are
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 has
been compiled and work on this part of the project is now
reasonably well advanced. Details of individual leagues will
be added to the website as the work is completed.
The Welsh Football Data Archive will be
a major resource for football fans, historians, the media
and of course the Football Association of Wales and will provide
a readily accessible source of detailed information on soccer,
past and present, in Wales. |
