From the first shirt you owned as a child to the latest club or national team replica, football fans love football shirts.
Many are now considered design classics, some less so. But they all have a place in the game and a story to tell. Shirt Stories provides a glimpse into the history of the Welsh game…and a destination for football shirt lovers everywhere.
From the first shirt you owned as a child to the latest club or national team replica, football fans love football shirts. Many are now considered design classics, some less so. But they all have a place in the game and a story to tell. Shirt Stories provides a glimpse into the history of the Welsh game…and a destination for football shirt lovers everywhere.
Shirt Stories tells the history of Welsh football through selected shirts held in the Welsh Football Collection and loans from private individuals. The selection highlights the story of both men’s and women’s football, at national and club level. Timed to coincide with the build-up to the World Cup in Qatar, the exhibition includes:
- A shirt worn by Alan Harrington in the 1958 World Cup qualifiers.
- A shirt from Wales’s only previous appearance in a World Cup finals in 1958.
- Wales shirts from the 2022 qualifying campaign.
- A shirt worn in the first official Welsh women’s international played in 1993.
- and retro shirts from the top Welsh teams: Wrexham, Cardiff City, Swansea City & Newport County.
The exhibition is now open to the public and admission is free
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Find out more about the Football Museum for Wales Project
Plans are now progressing to build a brand new Football Museum for Wales alongside a fully revamped Wrexham Museum on Regent Street.
The new ‘museum of two halves’ is going to be a major new national attraction for Wrexham City Centre, celebrating Welsh football, past and present, in all its diversity, alongside an enhanced, first-class venue for discovering the fascinating and eventful story of our region of north-east Wales.
Find out more here.
