Wales play first football international

On Saturday, 25 March, 1876, Wales played its first international football match against Scotland in Glasgow. The game ended in a 4-0 win for the home side in front of a crowd of 17,000 at at Hamilton Crescent, Partick, the home ground of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. The match was organised by Llewelyn Kenrick who had founded the Football Association of Wales only a few weeks earlier. The Welsh team was selected after a number of trial matches were held at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham following adverts being placed in several sporting journals for Welsh players or players with more than three years residence to come forward. The FAW selected the side and Kenrick was appointed captain for the fixture.