Happy heavenly birthday to our dear friend and player Mark Davies on what would have been his 50th birthday still can’t believe he’s not here with us to celebrate .
We miss him dearly
See you on the far post x ⚽️🏴
Congratulations to all who travelled to Aldershot for the Wales 40s Representative fixture versus The British Army despite going a goal down early a great strike by debutant Dan Teurena on 44mins levelled things in what was a very competitive game
FT
@Armyfa1888
1-1 Wales 40s
We are pleased to announce
@roganmatthews
has been appointed Wales representative over 50s Manager . Good luck to Rogan who is taking over a very strong squad .
A fantastic display in the tournament final sees us lift the trophy with an emphatic victory .
Wales 3-1 Scotland .
@willynumber11
⚽️
JWilliams ⚽️
@RickyJRed
⚽️ getting the goals .
@willynumber11
tournament top scorer Johnny Williams man of the tournament.
Congratulations to League champions Merthyr 50s pictured prior to their 5-1 win today against Newport 50s Dedicating the title to former player and Gentleman Neil Davo Davies
#RIP
The 40s & 50s squads on the tarmac in Bristol before embarking on their tour to Valencia where they will play 4 games and train at Valencia FC ... good luck all and enjoy .
Great day at the home of English football today St George’s Park bit of a mixed bag but well done to all involved
40s RAF 1-2 Wales
50s RAF 0-7 Wales
55s England 4-1 Wales
Our best wishes to 40s striker Steve Davies who has suffered a serious injury.
A great game in the clash of the 40s champions in Cardiff
@ferndale_s
2-1
@barrytownvets
the valley boys edge a thriller .
@craig9hughes
gets MOM after playing 90 mins on one leg . Skipper Scott Young gets the trophy from Dennis Murphy.
A great day at St George’s Park today as our 60s representative squad faced England . Despite being 2-0 down goals from Mele & White got us level only to be beaten late on.
FY England 3-2 Wales , well done to all involved .
We have lost one of our greatest representative players & one of life’s greatest Gentlemen . Our deepest sympathy to Helen Jessica Katie and all Neil’s family & all his extended football family he will be sorely missed & remembered by so many .
#RipDavo
❤️
Early tomorrow morning our 50s representative squad fly from Bristol to
N Ireland for the 4 nations tournament our best wishes go to everyone travelling and to all the players selected from a very competitive age group well done.
The touring squad finish with a fantastic 3-2 victory against
@RCD_Mallorca
This leaves the boys unbeaten with two wins & one draw. An amazing achievement for the group who played 3 games in just 5 touring days
#VetsFootball
at its finest ❤️🏴⚽️
Despite a 0-2 defeat in today’s international in Cardiff against England congratulations to Shane Davies on picking up the Welsh Man Of Match award
@TRGC01
What a great achievement from our Wales 50s representative squad who have retained the home nations trophy after 3 wins from 3 games over this weekend and not conceding a goal
@NoelMooney13
🏆🏴
Huge thanks to our kit sponsor Jasonic Builders Merchants.
It finishes
@oceanparkarena
Wales 40s 4-0 Man City vets
@craig9hughes
@Trotty77
& Gavin Beddard on target in a competitive quality fixture
Carl Evans gets MOM from sponsor CEM integrated services
New O55s Manager Unveiled
The WVFA is pleased to announce John Jones as the new O55s Representative Manager. John takes over from Shane Davies who is stepping down after several successful years at the helm.
Good luck John
#VetsFootball
❤️🏴⚽️
Our O70s squad travelling to Denmark bumping into
@FAWales
Women’s U17s at
@BristolAirport
this afternoon.
Good luck to both squads in their upcoming fixtures ❤️🏴⚽️
Our Wales 40s representative squad are back in action this Saturday after last months encouraging display against The Army we face The Prison Service
@oceanparkarena1
a 1215pm Kick off admission free. 🏴⚽️
FT at Dragon Park
Wales 2-0 England
Peter Morgan 55mins ( Penybont ) & Tim Morgan 69mins ( Barry ) on target.
Tim number 7 in picture about to score ⚽️🏴
This season we have 65 teams from 34 different clubs playing across 6 leagues. We start at Over 40s & go right up to our new Over 65s age group, which shows the incredible growth for Veterans football in Wales ❤️🏴⚽️
Here are the the league details for all age groups…
A fine 2-1 win for our 70s Representative squad today at Loughborough v England goals by Dave Abbott & Billy Arnold ( pictured ) who is keeping the family scoring tradition going as he is the father in law of 40s striker Ben Bannon 🔥 🏴 ⚽️
O60s Oxfordshire Tournament ABANDONED due to serious medical emergency
This is why it is so important for teams to be in the vicinity of a defibrillator - a huge well done to our very own Paul Averies for all his quick thinking which did save a life ��️
It wasn’t quite meant to be the fairytale ending for Shane Davies to bow out as manager of our O55s. He has played a huge role within our organisation as a player, coach & manager.
A huge thank you to all his efforts coaching & managing the O50s & O55s 👏🏻👏🏻
#WalesVetsLegend
Our 55s fall to a heavy 5-1 defeat by a very impressive England side no complaints we were outplayed … great respect shown to our former player Neil “Davo “ Davies by both sides prior to kick off today ❤️😞
It ends at
@oceanparkarena1
Wales 40s 3-3 Prison Service
A game of two halfs but Wales throw it away after dominating proceedings Wales goals from Ben Bannon Neil Thomas & Steve Davies , great comeback from the Prison X1 …
In a tough first fixture the hosts & holders Get the win in the 50s home nations tournament
@JennerPark3G
Wales 1-0 England a NFrancis goal in the second half Squad pictured with their Mark Davies tribute T shirts on ❤️🏴 RIP Mark that was for you !
A great day for our representative squad
@UndyAFC
today raising nearly £900 for charity against a Mark Davison select squad a
@willobarnesy
goal on 23 minutes cancelled out by skipper Mike Flynn’s second half header as it ends 1-1 .
A good 4-0 win for Wales 40s with goals from
@Trant21
⚽️⚽️⚽️ &
@craig9hughes
⚽️, our thanks to
@BarmouthVets
for a great game and their hospitality , see you in the new year gents !!
How good does this look the new pitch at our training base
@oceanparkarena
full car park construction and a second pitch is also underway . Hope its not too long until we can get a game on there !!🙏🔥⚽️
After an airport delay at Bristol our Mixed representative squad finally get off to a winning start in Prague with a 7-3 win with g oh also from NFrancis 3 RJohn 3 & ASmith 🏴🔥
Despite a positive last day victory for our 50s representative squad
Ireland 1-2 Wales
Tranter ⚽️ Williams ⚽️ with the goals , it’s England who win the home nations with 3 wins from 3 games Congratulations to England 🏴 on a great tournament.
Squads are released for Wales 40s fixture v Rob Poyner select X1 this Sunday August 8th at Ponthir NP18 1GA 1130am KO . To honour the memory of former player Robert Poyner.
Our Wales 70s squad were in action today
@PenybontFC_
Final score
Wales 1-0 England in very hot & testing conditions well done to both squads & to Peter Morgan on bagging the winner ⚽️🔥
Frustrating times for us all atm but Wales 40s Manager
@LWO4
is keeping it fresh . Newport County’s main Mike Flynn qualifies today and states he is available once we get the go ahead. ⚽️🏴
Wales make it 2 wins from 2
v Team GB
@JennerPark3G
despite a first minute penalty miss & spurning a number of chances a Vince Lewis strike on 38 minutes seals it .
A great day at St George’s Park today v
@RaffaVets
the 40s fell to a narrow 4-3 defeat but the 50s were convincing with a 9-0 victory . Thank you to our hosts see you in Cardiff in December.
The committee and all connected with Wales Veterans would like to pass on our sincere condolences to the family
@booshpoyner79
of one of our former Veterans Robert Poyner who passed away this week , Rob was also awarded a veterans cap. RIP Rob .
Wales 50s Representative Manager
@roganmatthews
names a 17 man squad for his first game in charge this Saturday v England
@oceanparkarena
4pm KO , free entry come along and support the boys 🏴
Wales Veterans are pleased to announce Gavin Price is to take up the position of Wales over 50s Manager the former Aston Villa & Charlton player will join forces with current Manager Shane Davies until Shane turns 50 next year & steps down. Welcome Gavin 🏴
A very good performance by our 40s as they comfortably beat Goring United 4-1 , goals by
@Trotty77
⚽️
@RickyJRed
⚽️
@willynumber11
⚽️ Ado Smith ⚽️,
Congratulations to all involved some superb football played today !
🏆Campeones, Campeones, Olé Olé Olé🏆
An impressive 5-0 win vs Denmark put Wales in pole position leaving England to beat N Ireland to win this years tournament
However the hosts run out 2-1 winners & that itself wasn’t enough to pip Wales at the top on goal difference ❤️🏴⚽️
When someone unfollows u to drop you back to 999 followers and
@NewportCounty
Manager
@flynnster17
hits follow to take u back to 1000 . Welcome Mike your doing a great job at Newport.
#walesvets
Ahead of this coming weekend’s Home Nation’s tournament in Ireland our 50’s representative Manager Rogan Matthews names his 16 man travelling squad … Good luck to all involved 🏆⚽️🏴
Congratulations to Newport 55s who have won the league today with 2 games still to play with a comfortable 2-0 win
@PenybontVets
with goals by Ross & Lillygreen another clean sheet conceding just 5 goals all season .
40s midfield man
@Trotty77
is next up displaying his NHS shirt not pre or post training session but fresh from an interior designing & decorating session !
The final Representative Squad is released for the St George’s Park fixture triple header and it’s our 40s who will play the RAF 35s on Sunday July 9th ..🏴
Our vets touring party have their flight cancelled until tomorrow so Ricky & Steve go straight on the beer & Cerison helps out at the airport with passenger transport !!
Todays Over 60’s B Team Representative game finished with a 1-0 victory for Wales at
@KirbyMuxloeFC
over
@EnglandVetsFc
- Pepe with the crucial winning goal for the Welsh 💪🏻
Again a huge thanks to kit sponsor
@AdmiralUK
& main Wales Vets sponsor
@Workwear_SM
#WalesVets
❤️🏴⚽️
We are delighted to announce next month we will be travelling to England’s HQ for a triple header of fixtures … squads will be announced by relevant Managers this week 🏴⚽️
Our 40s representative squad travelled to TNS for a charity fixture in aid of ‘ Climbing. Out ‘ they came away with an 8-0 win but more importantly helped raise money for the charity and also made their own donation .
@AdmiralUK
Wales 40s will play a memorial match Sunday Nov 15th for former Wales Veteran Rob Poyner who sadly passed away back in April , due to restrictions we were unable to pay our respects at his funeral service . We will now play a game in his memory whilst observing covid protocols
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
#RememberanceDay
Despite an early missed penalty fro Llanelli the 45s final ends
@LlanelliV
7-1
@ferndale_s
Goals from
@LeeTrundle10
Davey (2) Thomas JWilliams & NWilliams (2) … congratulations to all involved and Llanelli on the win 🏆
Game finishes at a very very hot
@oceanparkarena
Wales 50s 7-0
@swpolice
goals from SWhite 2 NFrancis 2 ( both pictured ) RHutchins DBroadribb & DThompson. Well done to all involved some good quality on show some good goals and a clean sheet .
It ends at a very warm & picturesque NW Coast
@BarmouthVets
1-1 Wales 40s. a great Mike Hard header made it 1-0 but a second half equaliser by Russell Jones evens it out !
A very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all our clubs players managers committees supporters & sponsors thank you for you’re support in a testing 2021 let’s hope for an easier 2022 🎄⚽️🏴
A very good squad performance from Wales 55s in Kirby Muxloe ends England 1-1 Wales Mark Walker with the goal Wayne Matthews gets the MOM enough chances created to comfortably win it tho . Number 6 shirt rested in respect of our friend Mark Davies ❤️🏴
An emphatic 9-0 win against Germany sees our O70s finish the tournament unbeaten.
The final game sees
@EnglandVetsFc
v
@DanishMFA
in a winner takes all - however a draw sees our boys bring the trophy home 🤞🏻🏆
#VetsFootball
❤️🏴⚽️
2 of our main men are next up 50s Manager/ 40s player Shane Davies & 40s Skipper
@craig9hughes
sporting their NHS shirts pre workout.
Think the skipper may have ordered the wrong size tho 💪
#stayfitdoyourbit