 Wales
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| Nickname(s) | The Dragons (Y Dreigiau) |
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| Association | Football Association of Wales (FAW) |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach |  Rhian Wilkinson
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| Captain | Angharad James |
| Most caps | Jess Fishlock (156) |
| Top scorer | Jess Fishlock (46) |
| FIFA code | WAL |
| FIFA ranking | 29 |
| Highest FIFA ranking | 29 |
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 57 |
| First international |  Wales 2–3 Republic of Ireland  (Llanelli, Wales; 13 May 1973) |
| Biggest win | Wales 15–0 Azerbaijan  (Newtown, Powys, Wales; 21 August 2010) |
| Biggest defeat |  Germany 12–0 Wales (Bielefeld, Germany, 31 March 1994) Wales 0–12 Germany (Swansea, Wales, 5 May 1994) |
| European Championship appearances | 0 (First in ) |
 
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The Wales national women's football team represents Wales in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), the governing body for football in Wales and the third-oldest national football association in the world, founded in 1876.
The team qualified for their first major championship, the 2025 the UEFA European Women's Championship, with a 3-2 playoff victory over two legs against the Republic of Ireland in December 2024. They have never qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup. The closest they have come is going all the way to the FIFA Women's World Cup UEFA play-off final before falling to a 2–1 defeat at the fate of an opposition last minute winner in extra time against the Switzerland women's national football team.
Apart from Gwalia United all Welsh women's football clubs play in the Welsh women's football league system. As a country of the United Kingdom, Wales is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and therefore the national team does not compete in the Olympic Games.
Players[]
Current squad[]
- The following players were called up for the UEFA Euro 2025 qualifying play off final matches against Republic of Ireland to be played as a home and away leg on 29 November 2024 and 3 December 2024, respectively. The first leg will be played at the Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff on 29 November 2024 and the second leg will be played four days later at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on 3 December 2024.
These last two winning matches meant that Wales finished top of Group 4 Euro 2025 qualifying as a seeded team for the play-offs. The play-off draw was made in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday 19 July 2024 at 13:00 CET and Wales were drawn against Slovakia. The first leg was played at the National Training Centre Poprad, Poprad, Slovakia on 25 October 2024 and the second leg was played four days later at the Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff on 29 October 2024. The winners of this tie was Wales, 3-2 on aggregate, setting up a play off final against Republic of Ireland.
Wales have also gained promotion for the upcoming 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League.
- All caps and goals as of 29 October 2024, after the second leg match against Slovakia, played at the Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff.
| # | Pos | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | ||
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| 1 | GK | Laura O'Sullivan-Jones | 23 August 1991 | 59 | 0 | Gwalia United
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| 12 | GK | Olivia Clark | 30 August 2001 | 23 | 0 |  FC Twente
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| 21 | GK | Safia Middleton-Patel | 21 September 2004 | 2 | 0 |  Manchester United
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| 5 | DF | Rhiannon Roberts | 30 August 1990 | 73 | 2 |  Real Betis
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| 6 | MF | Josie Green | 25 April 1993 | 31 | 0 | Crystal Palace
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| 14 | DF | Hayley Ladd | 6 October 1993 | 97 | 3 | Manchester United
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| 3 | DF | Gemma Evans | 1 August 1996 | 69 | 1 | Liverpool
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| 4 | DF | Mayzee Davies | 25 August 2006 | 3 | 0 | Liverpool Feds
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| 2 | DF | Lily Woodham | 3 September 2000 | 31 | 2 | Crystal Palace
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| 11 | DF | Lois Joel | 2 June 1999 | 5 | 0 | Newcastle United
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| 23 | DF | Ffion Morgan | 11 May 2000 | 37 | 2 | Bristol City
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| MF | Anna Filbey | 11 October 1999 | 7 | 0 | Watford
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| 20 | MF | Carrie Jones | 4 September 2003 | 29 | 2 |  IFK Norrköping
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| MF | Ellen Jones | 10 January 2002 | 0 | 0 | Sunderland
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| 16 | MF | Charlie Estcourt | 27 May 1998 | 44 | 3 |  DC Power FC
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| 22 | MF | Alice Griffiths | 22 January 2001 | 11 | 0 | Southampton
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| 8 | MF | Angharad James (captain) | 1 June 1994 | 124 | 6 | Seattle Reign
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| 10 | MF | Jess Fishlock | 14 January 1987 | 156 | 46 | Seattle Reign
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| 7 | MF | Ceri Holland | 12 December 1997 | 36 | 5 | Liverpool
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| 18 | MF | Mared Griffiths | 3 March 2007 | 0 | 0 | Manchester United
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| 15 | FW | Hannah Cain | 11 February 1999 | 9 | 1 | Leicester City
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| 19 | FW | Ella Powell | 1 February 2000 | 9 | 0 | Bristol City
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| 13 | FW | Rachel Rowe | 13 September 1992 | 70 | 8 | Southampton
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| FW | Tianna Teisar | 24 September 2005 | 0 | 0 | Bristol City
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| 9 | FW | Kayleigh Barton | 22 March 1988 | 84 | 21 | Charlton Athletic
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| 17 | FW | Mary McAteer | 2 January 2004 | 7 | 1 | Sunderland
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Recent call-ups[]
- The following players have been called up for a Wales squad in the last 12 months.
- This information may be incomplete or incorrect.
Captains[]
External links[]Template:Wales national football team Template:Wales women's national football team managers
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