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List of host grounds of Wales home international football matches
This is a list of stadiums which have hosted Wales international football matches. To date, fifteen grounds have been used to host Welsh home matches.
==History==
Wales played their first home international on 5 March 1877 at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, losing 2–0 to Scotland. As a result, the Racecourse Ground is officially recognised as the oldest football ground in the world that continues to host international matches, ahead of Hampden Park in Glasgow which did not host its first match for another 27 years, and has hosted more Welsh international matches than any other ground.
To date, Wales have played four home matches in England, the first in 1890 when they hosted Ireland at the Old Racecourse in Shrewsbury. The remaining three matches were all held at Anfield in Liverpool. The first match moved to Anfield was against Scotland on 12 October 1977 after severe crowd trouble following a qualifying match for UEFA Euro 1976 between Wales and Yugoslavia the previous year. The final two matches were played when, due to the large demand of travelling away fans, a game against Italy was moved to Anfield in 1998. The following year, Denmark complained to UEFA that they should receive the same treatment in order to bring their planned 4,000 fans who could not be accommodated at the proposed venue, Ninian Park. The decision to move the tie was slammed by Wales' assistant manager Graham Williams, who labelled it as "''shocking''", and Football Association of Wales president John Owen Hughes who commented "''they are entitled to 10 per cent (of a stadium's capacity), not a set figure''". Despite Wales' resistance to the move, the match eventually went ahead at Anfield.
In 2000, the Millennium Stadium, a 74,500 capacity stadium, was opened in Cardiff and was immediately assigned as the new home venue for Welsh football matches, hosting its first match on 29 March 2000 against Finland which, due to the increased capacity of the new stadium, set a new attendance record for a Wales international match of 65,614. However, in recent years the ground has seen a dramatic drop in attendances for international matches due to the progress of the Welsh side in qualifying competitions which lead to calls from several senior figures in Welsh football, including national team manager John Toshack and players such as Jason Koumas and Craig Bellamy, to move matches away from the Millennium Stadium. In response, several friendly matches were moved to various venues around Wales, including the first international matches held at the Cardiff City Stadium, Liberty Stadium and Parc y Scarlets. In July 2010, plans were revealed to move three of Wales' four upcoming home matches during the qualifying stage of UEFA Euro 2012 away from the Millennium Stadium, which would become the first competitive fixtures to be played away from the ground since it opened.
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