The Official Match Thread | Wales 0 Canada 1 | Att: 15,024 | 09/09/25 | The Swansea.com International Stadium | Friendly

[jackharris]

Joe Allen to be celebrated at Canada match - FAW

Joe Allen's career will be celebrated at Tuesday evening's match against Canada at the Swansea.com Stadium.

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[jackharris]

Cymru vs. Canada | 2026 A Internationals - EQ Friendlies - Fixtures - FAW

View all the match details here.

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[Cinio Dydd Sul]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1965037990268559476

 

[jackharris]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1965037990268559476

That’s great news. I was worried it wouldn’t break to 10,000 mark.

 

[JackFish]

We've historically struggled to pull in decent crowds for Wales friendlies at the Liberty so that's pretty decent going - we had around 12k for the two qualifiers we played here against Croatia & Switzerland so great progress to be getting more than that!

 

[Swanjaxs]

It's doesn’t help that the FAW only throw us a few crumbs once in a while.

 

[Moorlands]

BBC Wales mentioned 14K tickets had been sold on tonight's evening news.
Perhaps FAW should have arranged games here more often, given the City more of the good nights and tried to embrace this, the other part of Welsh football public, more closely
Just a thought.

 

[Ringwood]

U21 took a big beating at home

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

BBC Wales mentioned 14K tickets had been sold on tonight's evening news.
Perhaps FAW should have arranged games here more often, given the City more of the good nights and tried to embrace this, the other part of Welsh football public, more closely
Just a thought.

They definitely should, but unfortunately the ground is too small. Even nations league games pull in 30k now. Plus there's something like 20k campaign/ season ticket holders so it is difficult to take games elsewhere now, although not insurmountable.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

They definitely should, but unfortunately the ground is too small. Even nations league games pull in 30k now. Plus there's something like 20k campaign/ season ticket holders so it is difficult to take games elsewhere now, although not insurmountable.

Agreed on all counts and with promotion to Nations League A the 3 games next Autumn will need to be in the largest stadium.

All friendlies should be in either Wrexham or Swansea though!

The qualifiers for Euro 2028 present an opportunity, as we’re very likely to qualify as hosts anyway. There’s an issue with the campaign tickets but an argument for pausing them for one tournament only and having one qualifier in Wrexham & Swansea to drum up interest before trying to get as many Welsh fans as possible into a 72k stadium for the tournament proper.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Agreed on all counts and with promotion to Nations League A the 3 games next Autumn will need to be in the largest stadium.

All friendlies should be in either Wrexham or Swansea though!

The qualifiers for Euro 2028 present an opportunity, as we’re very likely to qualify as hosts anyway. There’s an issue with the campaign tickets but an argument for pausing them for one tournament only and having one qualifier in Wrexham & Swansea to drum up interest before trying to get as many Welsh fans as possible into a 72k stadium for the tournament proper.

Well they could sell the campaign tickets but charge for 1 less game, then take that game to the Swan.com / racecourse when renovated. Tickets then go by points like they do for away games. Then offered to campaign holders etc.

 

[jackharris]

 

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[jackharris]

Looking like they will need a bigger boat, I mean it looks like they will need to open up some more blocks soon. I think the only section of the North Stand that has been opened so far is NU4 for the Canadian Bacons.

 

[jackharris]

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